Why didn't the first XBOX have a removeable hard drive?
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Why didn't the first XBOX have a removeable hard drive?
Seems logical to me. Those memory cards don't hold enough to be of any use for large game saves. I doubt it would have cost MS much more to make the hard drive removeable. That way people don't get screwed when they have to exchange their consoles. I bought an XBOX when KOTOR came out and after a week of playing the thing kept freezing up on me. I was 80% done with KOTOR. But lost it all because I had to exchange the system. I haven't picked up KOTOR since. So, any ideas why they didn't do it then and why they thought it was a good idea this time?
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Considering that it was the first console (as far as I know) with a true hard drive in it, I don't think they were ready to take the next step to removable hard drives.
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Originally Posted by Draven
Considering that it was the first console (as far as I know) with a true hard drive in it, I don't think they were ready to take the next step to removable hard drives.
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Well the PS2 had a removeable hard drive. It was relatively useless but it had the slot for it in the back. That came out before the XBOX.
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You have to remember, the Xbox was built with OTS computer parts. As soon as you start customizing the product, you add costs. It was probably a money issue.
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I'm just surprised they didn't create some program to transfer files from one drive to the other over the network. Or to transfer stuff from memory cards to the new HD.
Of course, I also wonder why some game saves are not transferable to a memory card anyway, even though they are small enough to fit on one.
Of course, I also wonder why some game saves are not transferable to a memory card anyway, even though they are small enough to fit on one.
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Originally Posted by Mopower
Seems logical to me. Those memory cards don't hold enough to be of any use for large game saves. I doubt it would have cost MS much more to make the hard drive removeable. That way people don't get screwed when they have to exchange their consoles. I bought an XBOX when KOTOR came out and after a week of playing the thing kept freezing up on me. I was 80% done with KOTOR. But lost it all because I had to exchange the system. I haven't picked up KOTOR since. So, any ideas why they didn't do it then and why they thought it was a good idea this time?
By the way KOTOR had a number of glitches... was that the only game you had issues with? It might have been an issue with the game or a corrupt save game...
but like others said, I think it was due to the cost of removeable, external, smaller HDs at the time vs now.
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Yes, price must have been the issue. But the XBOX uses full size hard drives so all they would have to do is make a IDE adaptor to make it removeble.
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Originally Posted by Mopower
Yes, price must have been the issue. But the XBOX uses full size hard drives so all they would have to do is make a IDE adaptor to make it removeble.
Frankly, aside from the ability to upgrade to a larger drive down the road, I am not a user that needs a removable HD. I don't rip my CDs to my Xbox, I don't take it to other people's houses, etc.
I treated the HD in the original Xbox as a big fat internal memory card, which is what I think they intended it to be (with the whole music storage thing as somewhat of an side benefit.)
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Maybe to avoid problems like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/
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Originally Posted by DealMan
I used to save games on my Sega Saturn and I never had a memory card. Is that an internal hard drive or just some smaller memory device?