Xbox 360 20 GB Hard Drive & Refurbished Wireless Controller – $36 Shipped

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  • Written by Christopher Price on December 1, 2008
  • Cyber Monday

Circuit City is offering an Xbox 360 hard drive plus refurbished Wireless Controller for only $36, when using this 10% off coupon. (Click on the coupon, then come back here and click the link below for the item).

At $40, that’s the lowest price ever for the pair, especially for the rarely-discounted Xbox 360 hard drive… which is often heavily criticized for being overpriced. The PlayStation 3 allows users to replace and upgrade their hard drive, using any laptop-size SATA hard drive.

Xbox 360 Hard Drive & Refurbished Wireless Controller – CircuitCity.com

Note: The 10% discount won’t appear until you checkout.

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4 Comments on “Xbox 360 20 GB Hard Drive & Refurbished Wireless Controller – $36 Shipped”

Christopher Price on December 1st, 2008, 8:10 am  

Also worth noting that if you sell the controller on eBay for $20, that nets you a 20 GB hard drive for $20.

Now, if you want to swap hard drives on a single Xbox 360, keep in mind that you’ll need a memory card in order to store your Xbox Live user profile on… you can’t have your XBL user profile on multiple hard drives at once, hence the need to store it on a memory card that can stay connected to the system.

That said, $60 for three 20 GB hard drives sure beats paying the rip-off price of $100 for a 60 GB hard drive.

matt on January 2nd, 2009, 10:01 pm  

actually its only 13.9 gb so 3 of those only come to about 42 instead of 60 thats almost a waste of one

Christopher Price on January 5th, 2009, 12:21 am  

Yes, all Xbox 360 hard drives reserve 6.1 GB for system files (caching games, Dashboard, etc).

The PS3 does a similar setup, but of course people don’t notice as much since you can just buy a 500 GB hard drive for what Microsoft is charging for their 120 GB drive.

But, one benefit with this process is that you don’t have to constantly have your caches wiped. For example, you can have one hard drive reserved for Halo 3, and another reserved for GTA4, and the cache from one game won’t wipe out the other… cutting load times significantly.

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