Xbox 360 all tricked out with 60GB HD and stuff

Hey, where's my thanks? lol

Justin - I'm not sure I understand your question.

Hehe, I sent it in as news. You must have seen it before I did.

60 gig hard drive, how did that go in there, usb? or hacked?

So the 60 gig drive extra can be used for media from your PC ... but NOT for xbox downloads. I wonder if this means a simple mod for the ultra-pricey hard drive!

Justin: it was posted as an entry in the contest I'm running here: http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000777069793/

I saw it the minute the comment was made.

Nice job! Let loose the hackers/modders!

Wow...all they have to do next is find a way to let u rip games to the hard drive and thenI'll think about buying one :-P

Wow, bling box no doubt.

Finally a 360 worthy of ebay prices...

best.mod.ever.

This 360 is awesome, their is no telling what this would go for on ebay right now.

The HD is mounted via USB so that it is displayed as external storage. Too early for some hacked method of connecting one..

so the hd cant be written to, bah whats the point?

Drew- look at the pic. It's a 60GB 2.5" notebook drive that is situated directly on top of the DVD-ROM.

This worries me in two ways - first the vibration from the DVD may be significant (dunno, I don't have a 360) and the gap they're using for the drive may have been left there for a purpose, say for airflow. I know that apparantly there are some heating issues with the thing, so I'd shy away from any internal mods at this time.

The guys at MS aren't stupid (far from it) - there is a reason they put the drive on the outside of the case. Even if there is room on the inside.

That said, it's a great mod!

I played an xbox360 today in PcWorld england, I thought that the controller was nice, the console looked nice but the DEMO hdtv was a piece of shit.

Also what happened to anti-aliasing?

The games I played were:

*CoD2 (Gfx were lame compared to what i'd hoped)
*KingKong (Scenery was amazing, gameplay terrible and the t-rex looked PSone tech demo)
*Kameo, looked promising but some little punk was trying to tell me what to do so I quit it.

A lot of places have the demo TVs set to the wrong resolution, or they have the 360 set wrong. This makes a huge difference. The games really are quite gorgeous on a properly-set-up system.

Josh, I think that they put the drive on the outside of the case so that you can remove it for easy upgrades. Since cracking the case would void your warranty (and is somewhat difficult), it doesn't make much sense to put it in there.

Great mod, btw.

im doing the 60 Gb hard drive one. I may also do the front LEDs but my sodering skills are not something I want to use on a brand new $600 system.

At least now its possible to watch and transfer movies and music on a hard drive within your 360 (which should of been enabled with the default drive, lame microsoft)

Wonder if they repaired the dvd drive while they were at it.

yeah, MS put the HD on the top for easy transportability. So if your going over to a friends house and you like rap and they like rock, you can put your HD in their system and have your custom tracks...as well of course as every saved game you have.

I love that mod!
I'm suprised by how quickley it was done and how clean it looks. I looked through the pics, and if I was going to change one thing it would be to get rid of those lights inside the case,.......or at least move them. I like to see the glow of the lights...not the lights themselves.

"Wonder if they repaired the dvd drive while they were at it."

what problem with the dvd drive ... its fine as long as idiots dont change the orentation with the disk in the draw ... if your stupid enough to move the console with a disk in the draw well mayb u deserve the scratched disks

If someone could write a paging program that detects what game is being played and swaps that game's data from the extra drive to the XBox drive, you could essentially have a large XBox drive (though the waiting for the swap to complete might be a PITA).