360 hard drive - a third smaller than advertised?

[wraggster]

The Xbox 360 hard drive is certainly 20GB in total, but players can never access more than 13GB of storage space - just two thirds of the stated size.

Obviously some space will always be required by the operating system, as true of everything from iPods to desktop computers, but it's rarely such a high proportion.

The Windows XP operating system for PC, for instance, uses less than 2GB of hard disk space.

While there's no doubt that 360s hard drive is indeed the claimed size, its effective, usable capacity is actually only 65% of that. This could become more problematic as large files, such as high-definition movies, become more common.

Out of the box, Xbox 360 has only 12GB of free space, but it's possible to free another gigabyte by deleting the demo movies and music.

We're currently waiting for a statement from Microsoft regarding this. As soon as we hear anything, we'll let you know.

[pspfr33k]

It's a shame we can only put around 13GB on the HD. If we want to play a Xbox game, and put it on our HD, it's half full!