HWAYO 250GB 250G Internal HDD Hard Drive Disk Disc for XBox360 Slim Xbox360 E Games

THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL HARD DRIVE! I say that first and foremost because I assume some people looking at this hard drive are wanting it not only for more 360 game storage but for backwards compatibility with original titles. This HDD will NOT work with original titles, you will need to go to Wal-Marts or Microsofts website to find official hard drives that will be backwards compatible. If you purchase this hard drive expecting to be able to play original titles, you will become very disappointed when seeing the The game failed to start. Try downloading the game again. For more help, please go to xbox.com/support. error message, meaning its not official. Otherwise, the hard drive is great. It installed fine, runs fine and Ive had no issues thus far, I just give it four stars simply because its not official. Keep in mind, though. because it needs some space to run properly, you will only get ~230 GB of space, not the full 250. Even so, this should be plenty of space for the casual gamers who need more space for some larger 360 titles. If you are a gamer who is consistently purchases high-end games and installs all of them on your system, Id recommend getting the 320 GB model. I havent hit the point where I need to start using my hard drive, as I still have ~80 MB of space left on my Xboxs internal hard drive, (which Im using the rest for Skyrim until that tops off), but Ill probably start saving on it once I get into Bioshock. Again, just so people here are aware, this is NOT an official hard drive from Microsoft, so original Xbox titles will NOT play on it. Im saying this now and with as much stress and emphasis as possible so unaware buyers dont get this and get pissed off because its not what they thought it was. I talked with a Microsoft ambassador about the issue I was having, and he claimed that any games that are backwards compatible have a separate version, something like DC I think, and those work on the 360, which is bulls***. If you have an official hard drive, you can simply put the original title into your 360 and voila. No separate version s*** required. Hopefully those who read these reviews come across this and understand what this product really is. If you dont/didnt have an original Xbox, then youve got nothing to worry about but a great external HDD for your 360. Thanks for taking the time to read this review, for those who do!

I bought this hard drive back in October because I decided Id turn the ol 360 into a game room box for the kids. Arrived looking good. Then unfortunately I ended up taking a very extended stay in the hospital and in and out over the last few months...long story short, came back home and finally got it all unboxed installed the drive and...nothing. Out of the box the hard drive is acknowledged physically by the system but is unformatted...ok...go to format it...put in the serial and all that...the drive wont format. So I paid 25 bucks for a paperweight and I cant return it because of unforeseen circumstances. I hate to leave negative feedback on a product but when something arrives DOA...Well you deserve to know its possibly gonna happen to you. IF the seller would be willing to send me a new unit with a return label for the defective one I would be happy to update my review and make sure to praise their customer service. Hopefully customer service reads this and makes things right because Id rather not have to buy another one elsewhere.

yes! works great

Works great in my MacBook. I would definitely order again, although next time I might pay more for a larger one.

I bought this almost a year ago and had no problems. Just yesterday I bought gears of ear and it needed a requisite update install. After the install I tried another game only to release this memory unit had been rendered completely useless. A error caused my Xbox to be unable to read the memory unit and I lost all data on it and the money I spent on this. From a bit of research Ive seen the problem I face is from a defect within the memory unit.

Was able to download all the games and demos I wanted on xbox live!

Awesome for xbox

Great!

Horrible dont work at all very disappointed

no problem