False Advertisement? Xbox 360 Gears of War 3 Limited Edition 320 GB Console

[Idracil]

So yesterday i went took the bus with my lil sis and bro so i could by this console bc we loves gears that much that id by a whole console for it. Lol.

Anyway i checked the storage and it only has 290GB instead of the 320GB advertised. Does anyone know where i can to complain about this issue?

Its just 30GB but im a GB lover. I have a 2TB external with my music and movies and i just bought at the beginning of the year and ppl told me that id never use that many GB's lol.

[GOWKratosCole]

you do know that no HDD is ever the full amount of what GB it is said to be. It's always rounded up! But 30GB is a large amount of Gigs missing. I would take it back to the store that you got it from(if they sell the 320gb HDD) ask if they would swap it out! if not the contact M$

[GOWKratosCole]

Oh and good luck with it.

[SNACKBAR]

Ur 2tb I bet was 1.9...

Like post above stated, never what they advertise, I think its some default software needed to make the memory work, so much per block of memory ....

[(Damon)Baird]

Same with our Xbox, Microsoft fills the HDD with useless files so you cant mod it.

[Drone *]

It's to do with the filesystem. Notice on your PC hard drive it may be advertised as 160gb but it will only be 149gb.

[Idracil]

Ur 2tb I bet was 1.9...

Like post above stated, never what they advertise, I think its some default software needed to make the memory work, so much per block of memory ....

Yeah, i know that usually thats how it works with hdd's its never the actually amount that is says on the packaging.

I agree, with GOWKratosCole, i think 30GB is a bit too much. I would of been fine with a 310GB and 10GB worth for system use or whatever.

I already, have alll GoW2/3 DLC on there. I ahd to transfer licenses to get my dlc to work yesterday. So would getting a new hdd require to transfer the licenses again?

[SNACKBAR]

License transfer (which you can only do every so often) is only needed if you get another console, not a HDD, even if u switch consoles the Dlc would.still.work.on new system you would just have to re-download it, goto download history and select download again it would say this is licensed to another console but it will still work. I have 3 systems and sometimes play In diff rooms as long as your gt has purchased the.content it will.work.on the console your gt is.currently playing on. Even without a license transfer. License transfer just makes it easier when you initially purchsse Dlc stuff, works instantly vs 1 min later (when you download again)

I think only way you have a problem.is if you have two accounts on the same.system playing the same game that.both have the dlc, then you may have a.conflict

[Altair00]

The licences are tied to the MAC address of the console. the HDD has nothing to do with that. youll be fine.

[Idracil]

So i called the gamestop where i purchased the xbox. The same girl who answered the phone is the one who sold it to me, but that doesnt really matter, anyway i explained that i checked and it was only 290 GB out of the 320GB advertised an told her that i understood that it isnt always the amount said. but that 30GB is a bit to much.

She proceeded to tell me that the memory was used for the system processes (which i knew) and the dashboard, and the noises it makes. (When you open/close the disc tray via the button and turn it on/off with via the power button). She offered to give me a number that i call so someone at microsoft could tell me the specific. I was put on hold for about 7 minutes and she gave me...

the xbox support number... ( which i call every month or so i can turn of auto renewal for my lil bros' xbl, since we take advantage of the 1 month for a $1 offers, lol.)

I did a little math. (Correct me if im wrong)
My Lil brother's xbox has 4GB internal memory. 3.3GB are the available amount for usage. So that means the .7GB are being used for the system itself.
so .7/4 = 0.175 So 17.5% of the total memory.

If you apply this percentage to the 320GB (idk if internal memory and hhd behave the same, but assuming they do) then 17.5% of 320 is 0.175*320 = 56.

So does that means that i should be missing 56GB instead of the 30GB? Am I better of missing 30Gigs instead of 56? Lol.

im going to call xbox support later, after i make breakfast for my siblings, and see whats up.

Thanks for the help guys.

[ekrezem]

It varies alot from system to system, but tbh 30gbs doesnt sound much, but it would also depend on the harddrive itself, alot of it has to do with what's actually advertised, what's actually are on them, and what the system actually sees on it. So honestly you lost a less than 30 gbs, since there are some already being used for system itself. I remember reading an article a while back stating that for every gb, you have a loss of about 7.0 - .02% per gb so 320 would loose about 28gbs, but again, it depends on what it actually was on it, not what was advertised, hope this helps.

[Anthony*Carmine]

it should say on the bow or whatever that its really 290gb, i thought that i just used like 40gb in the first few days of having my new xbox

[ItWasFantasyy]

I have a 12 gb hard drive. how messed up is that?

[Oberkuppenlord]

Damn xD u guys know how to warm up cold ****

[scmark15]

This gets asked alot by people buying hard drives. Manufacturer's usually go by approximently how many bytes (usually rounded) are on the drive (approx. 320,000,000,000 bytes in OP case) then convert it to Gigabytes based on that. However, usually when they convert it they do this...
320,000,000,000 bytes
=320,000,000 kilobytes (bytes / 1000)
=320,000 megabytes (kilobytes / 1000)
=320 gigabytes. (megabytes / 1000)
then advertise 320GB HDD

but in actuallity it's supposed to be divided by 1024 (Ex. 1 GB is actually 1024 MB not 1000 MB, same with 1 MB is actually 1024 KB, and so on), like this...
320,000,000,000 bytes
=312,500,000 kilobytes (bytes / 1024)
=305,175.78 megabytes (kilobytes / 1024)
=298.023 gigabytes (megabytes / 1024)

your loss on this is would be approx. 21.977 GB...

Plus I believe the xbox HDD is partitioned (divided if you will) into a few sections with some hidden, one would be the "system cache" (This is where your TU's are stored), one is your storage (Ex. System Settings > Storage > HDD), maybe another one for dashboard insall temp (where your dashboard update unpacks to before it installs).

Also, On a PC depending on what operating system you have, the size of the HDD cache, and whatever FAT type you format the drive to will also change the size of the drive after it's formatted.

Add that together and I'd say it could easily hit 30+ GB

[IIPABLOII]

That's sounds good

[TwoMINIFamily]

Also remember that Micro$oft likes to include a lot of demos, videos and useless stuff as well so that could be where some of your space has gone. If you don't want/need the videos,demos and other crud they put on there then delete it and get some of your space back.

[Guu-sama]

Also remember that Micro$oft likes to include a lot of demos, videos and useless stuff as well so that could be where some of your space has gone. If you don't want/need the videos,demos and other crud they put on there then delete it and get some of your space back.

the FAT (file allocation table) will always use space on any drive as well. Its marketing at its best. They really aren't lying to you, you do have a 320GB HDD, it just isnt 320GB of usable space