A huge rip off by Microsoft again

For the same price, you can get a harddrive of 750 GB for PC. It proves just how crazy the Microsoft is to rip customers off. No wonder so many people don't like this company and their product.

I got my xbox 360 console as a gift, and I have already spent 200 bucks to get together the controllers and harddrive(to play xbox games such as ninja gaiden, you must have the harddrive, oh, man, who would know for xbox it request additional parts to be backwards compatible?)

Don't buy it.

Absurdly Expensive

For a 20 GB hard drive this thing is ridiculously expensive. So expensive it easily deserves 1 star. For a desktop computer you could easily find a 500 GB drive for this price, and you can even get a 160 GB laptop hard drive in the same range (which would work with a PS3). You are basically paying $80 for a hard drive for 360 that people are giving away on craigslist for computers.

I haven't had any functional problems with it, but then again I would expect that from most any hard drive manufacturer. The space is enough to store a small amount of songs and a half dozen demos at a time (and of course your saved games).

The only reason I could find to rate this higher is that without it your 360 would be crippled, but I really don't think making an expensive hard drive required is a good thing. Just buy the premium console instead with the hard drive included. Even if you have already boughten a core, just sell it and buy a premium.

Where's the GB?

Where are the GB's for this system. They claim it comes with 20 GB, which is quite small- but in all actuality it only comes with 10.3 available GB. They preload the unit with 3.7 GB of advertisements for X Box- which brings us to 14 GB total. Yep, that's a missing 6 GB. And, if you are unlucky enough to call 1-800-4-My-X Box about this problem; then, you will probably speak to someone who barely understands English and will tell you to return the item because it should have 20 GB. If you are lucky enough to reach someone in the States; then, they will tell you there is a tiny statement on the back of the box which says some space will not be available. Also, they will act like it is an "industry standard" to have lower available Gigabytes than what is posted. This is only half true. The "industry standard" they are speaking of is a translation issue which causes a 20 GB hard drive to read as an 18.4 GB hard drive- not a 14 GB hard drive. Furthermore, if you are lucky enough to  more