well maybe so, but i got a 3 year warranty on it. I have also heard that the western drives work great as well. but if i get 3 years out of my hdd from hong kong, then i would have saved 100$ over microsoft.
wow just ordered mine for 12.90$ i bought a 120 gb hard drive from ebay for 53.00$ shipped and it works great, it has a chinese letter on the top left of the screen when in the memory screen to see available memory. but thats just nit picking i guess cuz everything else works great.