Preowned Hard Drive for 44.99

[ragepower]

Holy Crap, some idiot traded in a PS2 Hard Drive at work today, and I looked at the price we were selling it. Ummm yeah I bought that up only 44.99 thats a freaking great deal in my opinion hehe. Just call your local EB's and see if htey have had any traded in then pick up... OH if you have that GMR card you get 10% off that price to.


Whats kinda funny is the fact that he only got 25 Dollars trade in on it hehehehhe.

Wait technically he only got 20... because he took Cash

[munch]

i think this is the wrong place for your post.

[jalu6]

well, sorta. its in the wrong place if hes bragging about getting one.

its in the right place if hes telling everyone that you can get a used HDD for $45 at EB.

sounds like a little of both. I dunno. call it in the air.

[video_gamer324]

i think this is the wrong place for your post.

Not really. Several people have been looking to buy the PS2 hard drive without FFXI, and the OP is letting everyone know that they might be able to find a used one at their local EB (or maybe even GameStop) for $45.

[dcfox]

Would these still have FF XI preinstalled on them?

[ragepower]

I was informing everyone about it first, and bragging second lol. Mine came with everything almost new. The original owner never used it, it looks like. FFXI came with it hehehe.

[jousley]

I was informing everyone about it first, and bragging second lol. Mine came with everything almost new. The original owner never used it, it looks like. FFXI came with it hehehe.

Well there is at least one problem with this. If the previous owned didn't use it, then that means that he didn't register Final Fantasy XI to play it...so unless it came with the booklet with the registration codes in it, it will do you no good....and if it IS registered to play online with Final Fantasy XI, then it would have HIS credit card info in it to charge his account. So unless you pull a Cloudspekk and wrongfully use his payment information, you couldn't use it...and you couldn't change the info, cause again, you don't have the registration codes...Im just assuming you don't have the Final Fantasy XI booklet though since you didn't mention it......hehehehe

[Wario64]

Do the HDDs come with the utlity disc and all that stuff? Or are they already formatted?

$45 is a damn good price

[ragepower]

no no no no no ... sorry.... It came with EVERYTHING absolutely everything a new one comes with. Utility disc, booklet, etc... EVERYTHING hehehehe

[The Successful Dropout]

wal mart had the ffxi and hard drive combo thingy for $88

[Wario64]

Hmm, I hope some people trade in their hard drives around here. I consider this a pretty hot deal for people who want the HDD but not FFXI

[ragepower]

WHOA WHOA WHOA ?????? I just saw this on the Playstation.com website

you can buy this for only 99.99 this is a GRRRRREAT deal

• Linux Kit (for PlayStation 2) release 1.0 software

• Monitor Cable Adaptor (for PlayStation 2) (with Audio Connectors)

• Internal Hard Disk Drive (40 GB) (for PlayStation 2)

• Network Adaptor (Ethernet) (for PlayStation 2) [10/100 Base-T]

• USB Keyboard (for PlayStation 2) & USB Mouse (for PlayStation 2)

all that is included for only 99 bucks ??? of course no FFXI, but for all the other stuff thats a GREAT deal

[ragepower]

Does anyone know if the HDD, and Modem work if not used with the linux software... lets say someone buys that stuff and wants to use it for Resident Evil Outbreak (which I think is a cool game btw)

[jalu6]

that is pretty sweet. it used to be double the price for the linux kit. and if you have any interest at all in the OS, its worth it.

[alongx]

Does anyone know if the HDD, and Modem work if not used with the linux software... lets say someone buys that stuff and wants to use it for Resident Evil Outbreak (which I think is a cool game btw)

I'm pretty sure that the Linux kit is not usable for gaming purposes, but I'm not certain. If the drive comes with Linux on it, it's most likely formatted in the ext2 or ext3 format, as opposed to fat or fat32, which I'd assume the HDD packed in with FFXI is formatted in.

[ragepower]

hmmmmmmmm would there be anyway to change the format of the drive ?

[Smokeytb]

was it $45 after your employee discount?

and whats a GMR card?

[dcfox]

GMR card gives you 10% off used games and acc. and 10 month subscription for GMR. You can get it at any eb for $10.

[Spiritseed]

I have 2 HDD's I would sell for $55 shipped. They are used but I think you can switch users.

[ElwoodCuse]

I'll have to keep that in mind for when GT4 comes out, that's pretty much the only reason I have so far to be interested in the PS2 HDD.

Or Sony could just do a GT4/HDD $99 bundle...

[ragepower]

no after tax and discount I got it for like 37 bucks

[jousley]

What is GT4 going to use the hard drive for?

[ElwoodCuse]

GT4 is supposedly going to have downloadable cars and tracks but I don't expect they will confirm anything about what it will do with the HDD until E3.

If they make it support custom soundtracks I will absolutely buy it.

[rodeojones903]

You could always buy the PC version of FFXI for the registration codes if the previous owner already used them, if you feel like playing the game down the line. But then there was no real point to saving the money buying it used. :D

[vrs1650]

Can you save game to the HD, and not need a memory card. Just curious.

[ElwoodCuse]

/\/\

no but you can copy saves from the memory card to the HDD and back

[ragepower]

yeah I just figured that out last night you can create and delete folders on the HDD and then save your memory card saves to them which is pretty cool.

[rimsforsale]

...So unless you pull a Cloudspekk and wrongfully use his payment information...

lol is "pulling a Cloudspekk" a CAG slang now?.. haah.. btw Cloudspekk is a criminal disguising himself as a CAG, or maybe hes jus so much of a CAG that he rather steal then deal with deals... :twisted: thats scary, but good thing that he will be charged with mail fraud hopefully before 2006... cause our judicial system works so well....

[BULL_Ship]

the linux kit comes with an unformated drive but you can probably format it on your own with your pc using some crazy tools