Oh Hey, The Official Xbox 360 Flash Drive Is A Ripoff

Sure, you’ll be able to use any USB storage you want with the Xbox 360, like this fine selection of 8GB sticks for ~$US20 from NewEgg. Or you could buy the OFFICIAL 8GB flash drive for $US40 from GameStop. Wait.

OK, GameStop says the drive is “pre-configured”, though all it takes is a few button presses to configure any drive, for up to 32GB of additional storage. So, um, right!

But if you truly want to drop $US40 on a flash drive, I’d throw it at Patriot’s superfast 16GB Xporter XT. Ruggedised in rubber, it looks pretty gamer-y too. [GameStop]

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    Tyronomo

    Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 10:41 AM

    You mean ‘Up to 16GB of additional storage’ right?
    It says so right there in the image!

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      f4cti0n

      Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 1:57 PM

      The full article at MN’s site states that you can use two of the devices at once, allowing up to 32GB.

      The article isn’t clear on that point at all, but yeah, 32GB is the maximum ‘in total’.

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