Xbox 360 500GB Media Hard Drive

This product worked absolutely perfectly and as shown. I have the latest Xbox E model (I believe it's called) not the slim - ie if you were to go to the store today to buy one brand new that's the model I have although I'm told this drive would have been compatible for the slim as well. Installation was a breeze. On the bottom of the Xbox is a little switch you pull toward yourself and the vent opens up to reveal a slot for the drive. Slide the drive in and you're in business. Make sure you do this while the Xbox is off of course. Before purchasing this drive I used to switch in and out USB Sticks which worked for about a month until I realized no matter how big the stick you put in, Xbox limits each USB Stick to 32GB and you can only use two at a time. I found myself going to the store dropping $30 bucks a pop each time I bought a USB stick and the thought occurred to check and see how much a drive would be from Xbox themselves. In retrospect I wish I had bought the drive straight away because the hundred dollars it cost me on Amazon is about two-thirds less the cost of all those USB Sticks I went and bought. Lastly I should mention as I myself was shopping for a drive I noticed other companies offered similar drives for thirty dollars cheaper or so. My recommendation would be NOT to go that way. A bad drive can kill an Xbox faster than a bullet. My slim I owned before fell victim to a corrupted drive. However long its been since I bought the newest model 360 its been a tank with no issues and adding the drive to the mix about a month ago its a perfect system. Don't cheap out on the drive for your system as its the brain of the machine and most important component if you ask me. That said, always go with the original manufacturer. That's what I did and couldn’t be happier. I ordered the drive on a Sunday and plugged it in my machine Tuesday. Well worth the $100.

After reading reviews about buyers receiving the PAL version of this item when we need NTSC in the USA. I was crossing my fingers hoping I got the correct version. I did and it's perfect! Very easy to install, just simply press the hidden button on the right side(or bottom) whichever way you have your system, and remove the plate hiding the slot for the hard drive. Then just slide it in until it clicks. That's it! Turn on your system and its recognized right away, no need to format either, it even comes with a few arcade games preinstalled! I used the system tool to move all items from the 4gb flash memory over to the hard drive. Very simple and took only a few minutes. Then I was able to download all of our games that wouldn't fit on the flash memory, just go to pending/active downloads and choose to change the memory location to the hard drive. After 4 hours we had all of our games on the hard drive and have lots of room left for more!

Works perfectly. I had a hard time finding exactly the one I needed...there are some that are much cheaper but those are NOT made by Microsoft. We needed one that is backwards compatible so we can play the original Xbox games on our 360. If that's what you want to do, this is the one you have to buy. You cannot use the cheaper ones to do this. If you're only looking to use it as a hard drive, you may be able to buy the cheaper ones for just storage. This worked just as it's supposed to, and was very easy to install. So far it's worked on every original Xbox game we've tried in it. I would buy this again and I'd highly recommend this to anyone needing a hard drive.

I wish I had done this sooner. I upgraded because I have been downloading all the free games off xbox live (Games for Gold). I used to pick and choose which ones I would keep or pass on to save space. As some point, I decided to just download all of them to play them "later". This is twice the size of the last hard drive but I plan to fill this up quickly. Installation was easy but I did have to watch a clip how to open the side. That little lever blends in perfect. Very easy to pull old one out and slide the new hard drive in. I had an older transfer cable for the original hard drives which was NOT compatible. So I had to spend an extra $20 to get one. The new cable is compatible with old xbox hard drives and the slim hard drives. Since transferring old files will take several hours, I left and came back later to see it hadn't finished. Apparently hexic came installed on the hard drive, because it was duplicate files, it prompted if I wanted to overwrite. I probably wasted 6 hours waiting for it to finish because it stopped to wait for my answer. Just FYI, don't leave it run overnight and think it will finish. You might be prompted at least once, what to do with duplicate content.

After trying a generic brand drive that died after only a few weeks, I splurged for this, and it has been working fine since June, 2015. As posted in my review of the generic drive elsewhere on Amazon, I think Microsoft has the ability to render a generic drive useless during a system update, or their system updates don't work well with generic drives, because my generic Xbox drive still works for a Windows PC after I formatted it and put it in a portable case, but my Xbox 360s couldn't detect it was present after one big Xbox system update. The generic drive worked for me all of a few weeks, and we lost all my son's progress on his favorite games. But this genuine drive is working great. I chose 4 stars vs. 5 only because these Microsoft-brand drives are a little expensive, but then so is most everything with the Microsoft and Apple logos on them.

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I really hate the idea of paying so much money for storage. This thing should really be much cheaper, storage in general has dropped so much in price for most technologies. A word of warning, this thing DOESN'T even COME WITH A TRANSFER CABLE which you will need in most cases. Also keep in mind that this cable it's very hard to find nowadays and it's also very expensive. The saddest part, is that you'll probably use this cable only once. Okay, putting Microsoft's abuse of its own customers aside, I needed more room so I went ahead with the purchase. The harddrive worked as advertised. It was good to re-install all the games I was forced to delete when I was running out of space on my previous harddrive. I have plenty of space now, of course I could have used this a while back. Another Amazon customer put it best in his review about this item " a little too expensive too late". Anyhow, if you really really really must have more storage then get this.

There was drama in our home the last week, as the original harddrive for the 360 starting going bad. One day we couldn't get it to load anything....games or apps. We lost all of the games the we have played over the years, because it was never saved to Cloud. Lots of tear from the kids that lost Minecraft and Skylanders, but this drive came to the rescue. It fit perfectly and my husband was able to install with no issues. My kids are no working on their games again and saving everything to the cloud. My husband mentioned at how smoother Netflix was working and is overall, extremely pleased with this purchase.

The box came in poor condition, I was not sure if it had been opened or not but it works great and I am able to play my games! I am happy.

After a thorough research...I zeroed to 500 GB HDD from D.A traders for my Xbox 4 GB console,as I mentioned in my review in 4 GB console,some games like NFS rivals and other high end games require original HDD from Microsoft.Earlier I tried installing few of my games on to pendrive but failed(which made me buy is HDD).Now I'm able to install in this HDD. Setup is breeze and it reads as Microsoft.It shows 460 GB.

Tenía un disco de 250GB y ya me hacía falta reemplazarlo por uno de mayor capacidad, muy fácil de instalar y automáticamente te pide actualización del sistema.

Thank you DA traders. The product is real and it is working well. It problem was it only gave 460 GB instead of 500 GB but still it is a very nice product

Excelente producto funcionando al100 👍🏻 Llego antes de lo estimado