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3rd April 2011, 22:19
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External Hard Drive
Anyone recommend one?
Bout 1 TB and must work with a 360! thanks
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3rd April 2011, 22:26
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I use a seagate one, and its pretty good. Duno if it works on my xbox tho.
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3rd April 2011, 22:41
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Any external hard drive will work, aslong as it (or a partition) is formatted as fat 32.
I have a WD mybook 1tb and it is great.
When you get one i reccomend you just make a partition, say 100 gb if that, formatted to fat32 and use this for the xbox files. Having a 1tb hard drive completely fat 32 would be a waste.
Bad thing is fat32 max file size is about 4gb, so not bluray rips are going to fit!
Although i think i have heard of ways around this, but i dont know how!
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4th April 2011, 08:43
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Originally Posted by haz_pro
Although i think i have heard of ways around this, but i dont know how!
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compress it by half. The picture remains sharp, only static backgrounds lose some definition. Wouldn't bother to watch some films on the 360, too noisy and juicy. Multimedia BRD players can be found under £100 now.
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4th April 2011, 09:08
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Originally Posted by Manu
compress it by half. The picture remains sharp, only static backgrounds lose some definition. Wouldn't bother to watch some films on the 360, too noisy and juicy. Multimedia BRD players can be found under £100 now.
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I meant ways around the formatting, im sure i read there is a different version of fat32 which doesnt have the 4gb restriction, or i might just have completely thought this up hah.
Seen a pretty cheap multimedia player for about 30 on ebuyer, seems to get decent reviews. I am tempted, as said the xbox is loud, although electric doesnt bother me being at uni.
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4th April 2011, 09:21
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You don't need to format it with fat32 just to watch films! Well I havnt on mine and it's fine!
To save games in it, it needs to be fat32 though! The xbox will do it for you but only puts 19GB to one side for it though which is ghay!
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4th April 2011, 09:41
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Originally Posted by Graeme
You don't need to format it with fat32 just to watch films! Well I havnt on mine and it's fine!
To save games in it, it needs to be fat32 though! The xbox will do it for you but only puts 19GB to one side for it though which is ghay!
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Hmm, wierd.
As far as i can remember i had to make a partition on my external HD formatted with fat32 so that the xbox would recognise it : S, even now it doesnt recognise the ntfs partition.
So that means you can put bluray rips on it? hmm i might have to try again : S
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4th April 2011, 14:10
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Originally Posted by haz_pro
I meant ways around the formatting, im sure i read there is a different version of fat32 which doesnt have the 4gb restriction, or i might just have completely thought this up hah.
Seen a pretty cheap multimedia player for about 30 on ebuyer, seems to get decent reviews. I am tempted, as said the xbox is loud, although electric doesnt bother me being at uni.
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I spent 80 quid on one last year, not looking back to be honest. It's very handy to be able to plug a USB stick in the front and play any files from that. Plus no loud fan and a remote control...
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4th April 2011, 14:20
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Am looking at external hard drives but I have no idea what I want am thinking I want to migrate my itunes there and possibly store my pictures.
Now am about as tecnolically advanced as mud and when ever I plug my phone/camra in how would I stop it from going straight to pc hard drive?
And how do the pc look for itunes when I sync my phone?
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4th April 2011, 21:14
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Originally Posted by haz_pro
Hmm, wierd.
As far as i can remember i had to make a partition on my external HD formatted with fat32 so that the xbox would recognise it : S, even now it doesnt recognise the ntfs partition.
So that means you can put bluray rips on it? hmm i might have to try again : S
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Yeah I thought there would be more to it but defo didn't need to do anything, I even got a external HDD for my mrs's brother and his worked fine too
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8th April 2011, 10:59
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Quote:
Originally Posted by haz_pro
I have a WD mybook 1tb and it is great.
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2nd that.
good little HD
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