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Xbox 360 512 MB 8x Memory Unit
by AverageJoseph
Shortly after the Xbox 360's release, Microsoft unveiled a handy little memory stick for transferring and transporting, gamer profiles and game saves/data. These were rather hard to come by in shops and can still be rather expensive today, despite the fact that gamers can now use USB memory sticks to do an even better job. The Unit takes ... no time to load and makes no sound compared to the xbox 360 itself and is super easy to use, inserted into one of the two flap slots in line with the disc drive. It doesn't really have any faults and considering it is several times larger than its 64MB predecessor, it allows for far more profiles and or game saves and data, but some games still can be too large for memory unit storage.
Thanks to numerous updates and a different xbox live dashboard, you can now use an external memory stick to hold your profile (determining the amount of space allowed for gaming use on first plug in varying from about 100MB to the whole thing). A USB device can also be used to play videos, music and view photos from. With this in mind, the official Microsoft memory unit effectively becomes obsolete, yet still purchasable for a good price second hand. Still, nothing wrong with it.. its just a bit redundant.
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Microsoft Xbox 360 Memory Unit 64 MB
by AverageJoseph
Shortly after the Xbox 360's release, Microsoft unveiled a handy little memory stick for transferring and transporting, gamer profiles and game saves/data. I first bought my 64MB memory Unit specifically for use with Fable 2 and its cooperative capabilities it claimed to have, unfortunately the multiplayer was incredulous. These were ... rather hard to come by in shops and can still be rather expensive today, despite the fact that gamers can now use USB memory sticks to do an even better job. The Unit takes no time to load and makes no sound compared to the xbox 360 itself and is super easy to use, inserted into one of the two flap slots in line with the disc drive. It doesn't really have any faults other than the fact that 64MB is quite small, allowing for about 5 profiles, but game data varies greatly in size and therefore not all game saves can be stored.
Thanks to numerous updates and a different xbox live dashboard, you can now use an external memory stick to hold your profile (determining the amount of space allowed for gaming use on first plug in varying from about 100MB to the whole thing). A USB device can also be used to play videos, music and view photos from. With this in mind, the official Microsoft memory unit effectively becomes obsolete, yet still purchasable for a good price second hand. Still, nothing wrong with it.. its just a bit redundant.
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Microsoft Xbox 360 Memory Unit 512 MB
by Seven17
@ About and Data @
The whole reason I bought this little device was so I could take my profile, game saves and arcade games round to a friends house and play them there. Clearly 512MB isn't enough, and I bought it 3 years ago when the pen drive update for Xbox 360 systems hadn't been released. The memory unit has the same ... folders and organisation as a regular hard drive and is recognised by the console as an "External Memory Unit" with no set up at all.
Very easy to use then but not so easy when it comes to storing data. Microsoft have put a huge lock on what can be copied and transferred. If you move a paid game to the memory unit, you loose it forever, and when you move it back to the original console it came from, it stays as the trial version, and you can't get it back. You loose money and your game.
It is very handy for moving your profile and that's it. You can't trust this thing to keep your saves because it corrupts and wipes anything with a copyright lock, which you can't get back. This is a fair enough feature I can understand a copyright lock but even when you move it back you don't get your game.
@ Saving @
Downloading things to this device normally takes a little longer than it would on your standard hard drive. Filling this thing with something already on your hard drive to the maximum 512MB will take about 4 minutes. Transferring it back takes about the same but it will constantly ask you about items already on the console that you don't want to copy over.
You have the three options when transferring, it will ask you do you want to overwrite, and you get "yes to all" "yes" and "no" so when you transfer about 40 different halo 3 maps you have to sit there and manually select no for every single one. It takes a lot of time to do since there is no option to say no to all. (It will create an exact copy if you say no, rather than overwrote them.) if you have changed the map and want to save it as a new map, you select no. A very annoying feature.
@ Overall @
To live with as an every day device, it's great. The console sets it up, asks if you want to save it everything you load a game. It comes with a small carry case for taking it out and about, it's lightweight simple and durable. After three years of being unplugged, taken around to friends houses and then plugged in again on a regular basis it's been pretty durable and still works.
The problem I have is the loss of paid games It has locked, the inconvenience of the "no to all" option when you copy back. Microsoft would assume if you say no to all you wouldn't want to copy anything. Wrong, I want it to make an exact copy of the same name (with (1) maybe?) or save the copying file under a different name.
Do yourself a favour, buy a less expensive, less problematic pen drive.
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