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I just bought a Xbox 360 Arcade console system to spend my time during this holiday. I was using PlayStation 2 and PC for gaming, but I think It would be great playing games from 7th gen console system. There are DVD discs, HDMI cable, the console itself, and 1 wireless joystick. I decided to buy one more joystick for multiplayer gaming. I was playing Gears of Wars 2 directly from DVD when the console getting hotter and hotter, and finally It’s stuck by displaying red sign. I was bit worry about the machine from getting 3ROD or RROD, but It’s fine when I turned it on again.

So, that’s a short paragraph that can explains why I need a HDD to keep my Xbox lifespan. I bought a 500 GB Western Digital Caviar Green, and a cheap 3.5″ HDD enclosure, hopefully the Xbox detects it as a portable device so I can install games to the HDD. The WDC Green costs me about $35 and the enclosure priced about $12

I put on the HDD into the case enclosure, connect the power cable, and connect the HDD to Xbox via USB, and Baaaaam!!! It works! I got 16 GB free space on the portable device. That’s not the actual size of the HDD, but Xbox can only use 16 GB of space on a portable device. It’s messy.

But there is a way to trick it. Connect the HDD to computer, and you’ll see a folder named ‘xbox360′, that is the folder used by Xbox to store files, games, and settings. You can rename that folder to something else, e.g. ‘xbox360-fifa’ to store FIFA game files, and make a new folder named ‘xbox360′ to store another game files, and you can rename it when you’re not playing it. It’s troubling, but worth the bucks.