*UPDATE* She’s coming up from behind: a 70GB HDD? + 700GB?!
Ah, She’s an eight ball,
She’s a’rollin faster than a white wall,
She’s got an avalanche packed into a snowball,
She’s a losin’ all the links,
She’s like a stonewall,
She’s loaded up…
Marcy Playground lyrics aside, guess what nifty little creature of god decides to surface from the labs of Microsoft? In a recent press event of theirs, Plaid Ninja was able to get a little snapshot of the dashboard screen of one of the units. Could it be true? A 70GB HDD to expand your storage?
Here’s what Plaid Ninja observed: “From what I could tell this was a standard XBox 360 with what appeared to be the normal HD casing attached to it. I don’t know if the dev kits look the same as the consumer units or not. “
Well, what with their recent announcement of the Xbox Live Video Marketplace, the detachable 20GB HD just won’t fit all of those movies you’d want to download. An extra 70GB of space is most definitely welcome. Besides, you still have all of those games and demos to download. How could your little box handle all the weight? Heck, iPods can carry more memory! So why shouldn’t your 360 do so as well?
Too bad there’s no confirmation yet, so… Chalk it up to rumor, folks. Microsoft hasn’t officially announced anything yet. Keep your fingers crossed, and we’ll keep you posted!
UPDATE 1: A lot of you, like vietone below, have already voiced out that a 70GB wouldn’t actually be the “real” memory. Storage devices would often advertise to be of a specific amount of space, but in actuality, a tiny portion of the total becomes reserved memory.
So, if we take the 70GB example, the actual size you can fit into it would be something like 67.3GB. But, if what is shown as above would be 70GB of free space, then that would mean the actual capacity would be something like 73GB. But that isn’t quite possible since there are no hard disks of that size… Now, with regards to an 80GB HD, that’s a different story…
Thanks for the clear up, Pranav!
UPDATE 2: that picture on the left might look identical to the one on top, but look closer. C’mon: click it! Is it just us or did someone obviously Photoshop an extra “0” into the 70GB and called it 700GB?
We smell a rat! This pic has been running around like a chicken with its head cut off on the web.
Clearly, one of these pics is a fake. Which one? Well, considering that if anyone would Photoshop something, it would be to make it a bigger, better version of the real one to make people get excited.
If the first pic (the one on top) were the fake one, and the one on the left we the real one, why would the faker reduce the disk capacity from 700 to just 70? It doesn’t make sense. If we were to fool other people, it would make more sense to bring the REAL 70GB to an unbelievable 700GB!
Don’t be fooled folks! Someone Photoshop’ed a 700GB HDD a bit too late!
Ah, She’s an eight ball,
She’s a’rollin faster than a white wall,
She’s got an avalanche packed into a snowball,
She’s a losin’ all the links,
She’s like a stonewall,
She’s loaded up…
Marcy Playground lyrics aside, guess what nifty little creature of god decides to surface from the labs of Microsoft? In a recent press event of theirs, Plaid Ninja was able to get a little snapshot of the dashboard screen of one of the units. Could it be true? A 70GB HDD to expand your storage?
Here’s what Plaid Ninja observed: “From what I could tell this was a standard XBox 360 with what appeared to be the normal HD casing attached to it. I don’t know if the dev kits look the same as the consumer units or not. “
Well, what with their recent announcement of the Xbox Live Video Marketplace, the detachable 20GB HD just won’t fit all of those movies you’d want to download. An extra 70GB of space is most definitely welcome. Besides, you still have all of those games and demos to download. How could your little box handle all the weight? Heck, iPods can carry more memory! So why shouldn’t your 360 do so as well?
Too bad there’s no confirmation yet, so… Chalk it up to rumor, folks. Microsoft hasn’t officially announced anything yet. Keep your fingers crossed, and we’ll keep you posted!
UPDATE 1: A lot of you, like vietone below, have already voiced out that a 70GB wouldn’t actually be the “real” memory. Storage devices would often advertise to be of a specific amount of space, but in actuality, a tiny portion of the total becomes reserved memory.
So, if we take the 70GB example, the actual size you can fit into it would be something like 67.3GB. But, if what is shown as above would be 70GB of free space, then that would mean the actual capacity would be something like 73GB. But that isn’t quite possible since there are no hard disks of that size… Now, with regards to an 80GB HD, that’s a different story…
Thanks for the clear up, Pranav!
UPDATE 2: that picture on the left might look identical to the one on top, but look closer. C’mon: click it! Is it just us or did someone obviously Photoshop an extra “0” into the 70GB and called it 700GB?
We smell a rat! This pic has been running around like a chicken with its head cut off on the web.
Clearly, one of these pics is a fake. Which one? Well, considering that if anyone would Photoshop something, it would be to make it a bigger, better version of the real one to make people get excited.
If the first pic (the one on top) were the fake one, and the one on the left we the real one, why would the faker reduce the disk capacity from 700 to just 70? It doesn’t make sense. If we were to fool other people, it would make more sense to bring the REAL 70GB to an unbelievable 700GB!
Don’t be fooled folks! Someone Photoshop’ed a 700GB HDD a bit too late!
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