I want to get a 360 and don't know wether to get the bigger (250GB), newer, more expensive Elite, or get one of the older, smaller (120GB), last gen ones. I know the arcade is going to be too small to save anything useful
How much hard disk space is recommend? What else is stored besides games?
Best Answer
Depends how how many games you play and do you download downloadable content (DLC).
For example, I have an older XBox 360 with just 20GB, but I get by because I usually just play one game at a time. It is recommended to "install" your games to the HD for faster load times and less noise, so that requires about 6-8GB.
Also, do you like to try out game demos? Those are usually a couple of GBs. Do you plan on buying a bunch of XBox downloadable games? The XBox arcade games are usually under 1GB each.
Do you plan on downloading movies and music to your hard drive?
If you answer no you most of these, you can even go the barebones route and get an XBox without a HD (arcade model) and just buy a 16GB flash drive to store your content.
If you answer yes to a lot of this stuff, then bigger is better.
But it really depends on how many games you wish to have access to on the hard drive (demos, installed games, DLC).
BTW, you might want to check out the newest model Xbox called the XBox 360 Slim. It only cames in one HD size, so it makes this question moot.