Xbox 360 500gb HDD

It's nice that there is finally a larger hdd available for X360 but at the same time I'm very disappointed that it's 500gb rather than 1tb. The latter would have eliminated space concerns entirely. What we got instead only alleviates them. And the price is ridiculous, of course. But the prices have always been absurd for X360 hard drives.

I have a few questions about it. First of all, I read in an Amazon discussion that a license transfer has to be done if you move games from your old hdd onto a new one. Is that true? If so it's kinda surprising to me because I always thought that licensing was connected to console ids and gamertags, not hard drives.

Secondly, I also read at Amazon that older transfer cables won't work with it, that a newer transfer cable has to be purchased. Is that the case?

Yes, licenses have to be transfered, no big deal, you download all your stuff to your new HDD and then do the license transfer, depending upon how much stuff you have it may take a couple of hours, the "license" represents only 20% of the entire game content, the remaining 80% is still in your HDD, you need that 20% "patch" for the game to run, once you have done the license transfer you are ready to go.

You´ll need this cable to transfer the content from your old HDD to the new one:

Just plug it to your console and to the HDD, do the transfer, once the content is transfered you unplug the new HDD, remove the old HDD and insert the new one in your console. 500 GB looks fine to me, most games are around 8 GB in size or, install around 8 GB ( like GTA5 ), 500 GB is a lot of room for the older generation consoles, it´s a lot of games betwen Games on demand and Arcade ( those weight between 1 and 2 GB ).

Can you get 500gb for the older models or is it just the new ones? 250gb seems to be the biggest I can find for the Elite

New ones

slim and slim e models and I'm buying one but keeping my content on my old using the new for new stuff I already filled the 250 gig and the 320 gig I have only has 58 gigs left

@the_kiwi_gamer: here in Mexico vendors are selling 500 gb hdd compatible for the older versions ( pre slim ) the only difference between both is the case.

Isn't there issues with swapping hard drives back and forth? Like with your profile and/or licensing and stuff? I just assumed there would be.

@Wickerman777: No issues, you just transfer your data from the old to the new and then do the license transfer, the license transfer may not actually be necessary it's only for digital download content ( like games ) .

That's not what I meant. I didn't mean transferring data from one to the other but keeping different data on different ones and swapping them back and forth depending on what game you wanna play.