Sandisk “Official” Xbox 360 Flash Drive: Yep, It’S Just an Ordinary Flash Drive
May 6th, 2010
Last month, Xbox 360 users were finally given the option to transfer their user data to a flash drive. Note that you can use any flash drive for this purpose, but that won’t stop companies like SanDisk from releasing “official” Xbox 360 flash drives. SanDisk’s drives are pre-formatted for use with an Xbox 360, sure, but you can easily do that with any flash drive and an Xbox 360 in seconds. The only significant difference between these Microsoft-approved drives and other flash drives is that SanDisk is throwing in a free 1-month Xbox Live Gold subscription, which you may or may not need.
But wait, there’s more: if you purchase one of these directly from SanDisk, you get a free lanyard! WOW. So yeah, you can order the SanDisk Xbox 360 Flash Drive at SanDisk’s website; the 8GB version sells for $35 (USD) while the 16 GB version sells for $70. If you’re going for the 16GB version, Amazon is selling it for $5 less. No lanyard though *cough*no one cares*cough*. Or you can buy a plain ol’ 16GB flash drive for $32 at Newegg. Your choice.
[via Engadget]
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That cough cough shit is played out. Almost as played as the phrase, ‘played out’.
Too bad the 29.99 flash drive at newegg isn’t xbox compatible. They should have researched a bit and they would have learned that a vast number of flash drives are not xbox compatible. Microsoft probably did this on purpose so that they could force companies, like sandisk, into purchasing the licensing rights. What happened to informed journalism?
hi there frank your right and some thing else is why stop at 16 gb usb flash drives i have seen usb flash drives as big as 128 gb from corsair and a kingstong has a 300 travler series why is the 300 better then 200 guss how many gb 256 gb usb flash drive and extrnal ssd’s are up too 1 terabyte and fusio is selling 1.28 tb ssd thatys 1.28 terabytres ocz has 1 terabyte 3.5 inch internal ssd and companies are selling internal pci ssd’s up too 2 terabytes ssd’s and yes microsoft also had a 64 gb ssd netbook limit also i have heard toshiba usb flash drive will be over 1 terabyte in 5 years
hi there has any one have done speed test ebncharking too see the read write speeds are on the skandisk usb flash drive i have heard rummours it was around 90 mb/s read and 60 mb/s write speed xbox 360 hdd has 65 mb/s read and 20 mb/s write speed and ps3 hdd is 65 mb/s read and 32 mb/s write speed
hey James, who ever told you that lied to you. USB 2.0 *cannot* reach anywhere close to 90mb/s. not I’m trying to find the read/write myself and It’s proving evasive.
xbox should make them compatible with all drives instead of like 3 or 4 models cuz i want to transfer my account but it doesnt show up on the devices menu but it shows that it is in on the music option