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> 6GB were used for the OS. Not really the same though, since the XBox OS fully resides in Flash/ROM/however-you-want-to—call-it-internal-storage 16MB (megabyt
by lloeki 14y ago
> 6GB were used for the OS.
Not really the same though, since the XBox OS fully resides in Flash/ROM/however-you-want-to—call-it-internal-storage 16MB (megabytes!) filesystem, and you can readily boot without the hard disk[0]. Those 6GB were merely "set aside".
The price is a complete rip-off though.
[0] this may have changed since NXE, but the OS is still extremely small by today's standards, e.g the last one is 113MB: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/system-updates/system-updates-info#00569e16d2844366beafb52b4d747a77* http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/system-updates/system...
- Brentley_11 14y agoAs of November 19, 2008 the Xbox OS actually requires additional disk space. It's why they discontinued the Xbox 360 Arcade console package since it didn't come with a hard drive. "While previous system updates have been stored on internal memory, the NXE was the first to require a storage device—at least a 128 MB memory card or a hard drive." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360#New_Xbox_Experience http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360#New_Xbox_Experience