Bringing it Home ... on a small hard drive

[Rob_Merritt]

Starting in 2 days, Microsoft is going to start flooding Live with a bunch of demos, videos. and other stuff from TGS and X06. Wewll thats fine and dandy but I'm almost out of room on my hard drive. 20 gigs with only 13 free is way too small for what they want people to use the 360 for. I can't put music or anything on it because its filled with stuff I get from live. Microsoft should of released a larger Hard drive for the 360 by now.

[Rob Beschizza]

If you do not use it the way they expect you to use it, you are not their market, or something. I think that's how the logic works.

[DanielElliot]

I just wish they made it easier to delete stuff. What are you keeping on there, Rob? Are you watching trailers over and over? The Jessica Simpson video? I love that Marketplace is there, but I only download a fraction of what's available, and I almost never watch anything more than once. Same with demos.

[bago]

Play music using WMC. Duh.

[Rob_Merritt]

I just wish they made it easier to delete stuff. What are you keeping on there, Rob? Are you watching trailers over and over?

Mostly demos and a few HD videos.

[Fugitive]

I just wonder what the upgrade strategy will be if MS ever releases a larger hard drive. Will they finally let us dump a backup image of the drive to a PC or USB drive (even if it's encrypted/signed to prevent fiddling) and restore it to the new drive?

[Jason Cross]

Mostly demos and a few HD videos.

Not for nothin', but maybe clean out some of that stuff?

I have a few HD videos, and a couple demos, and I still have many gigs free.

I'm sure if you went into the Memory thing and started looking at what's on your drive, you would determine that there are some videos and some demos (the real space hogs) that you just don't really play very often anymore, if ever. And if you really DO play the demo all the time, maybe that's one where you should go buy the full game, since you obviously enjoy it.

I'm finding the 20GB drive to be plenty of space, but I can't be a pack rat. I've used some friends' computers, and they've just got tons of apps and demos and games and old driver files and other stuff on there that they don't touch anymore. And it's not really a problem, because hey, they've got 200 gigs and what else is it good for? But the 360, you definitely have to start nuking stuff once you've had your fill.

I'm more worried about download speeds and such. Much of that TGS and X06 stuff is going to disappear off Live after the 29th (why? that's silly!), so you gotta get it while it's hot. Every damn 360 owner is going to be slamming the content servers for a solid week.

[ElGuapo]

FYI, demos (and I think videos) you download halfway and cancel are still on your hard drive. I freed about 3 gigs of partially downloaded demos the other day, under "memory" in the rightmost blade.

[Rob_Merritt]

Not for nothin', but maybe clean out some of that stuff?

But I want to keep them.

[GrinR]

FYI, demos (and I think videos) you download halfway and cancel are still on your hard drive. I freed about 3 gigs of partially downloaded demos the other day, under "memory" in the rightmost blade.

I did the same. GOD there is a ton of crap on that HD that I didn't even know about. I wish there was a simple Windows Explorer type view for the HD so I could just click and delete things instead of paging through categories.

[Jason Cross]

But I want to keep them.

That was kind of my point. Do you actually use them? Frequently? Or do you have that thing where you look at some demos or videos and say "but I might want to watch/play that again someime!" and not delete it?

I can't imagine playing a demo more than 3 or 4 times and it still having any value. It's either not good enough to play again, or it's good enough that I should buy the game.

There are only a very few things you can't just go download again, anyway.

[Zylon]

The network is the computer!

[rjcc]

you don't really need demos of games that have already come out/you own.

***says even though he still has BOTH TDU demos on the hdd, and owns the game.