
Not only that, new hard drives are also at a premium – depending where you look, a new drive at the top end of the available sizes (250/320gb) can be £70!īut of course, you never need to do things the “official” way. Throw in a few map packs and a lot of accumulated game saves, and suddenly space is at a premium. Halo 4 for example, requires you to install the second disc to the drive before you can play anything – that’s 4Gb gone right there. Until the last couple of years this hasn’t been a problem, but now it’s annoying. Since then it’s been custom painted, it’s red ringed and taken a holiday to Frankfurt where it was repaired over Christmas 2009, lived with me in five different houses, and generally been run in to the ground But although all the internals were replaced with the RRoD repair in 2009, the hard drive was still the original 20Gb unit it arrived with.

I bought my Xbox 360 just after Christmas 2006, £300 for the console with two wireless controllers, Project Gotham 3 and the first Gears of War.
