Elite's 120 GB HDD Is Surrounded by Big BUTS

The world went up in flames after the official announcement of the Xbox 360 Elite and its massive 120 gig hard drive. Then there was the rumor that a certain data cable would be needed in order to allow users to transfer older Xbox 360 data. But there's a big BUT to the whole deal of transferring data from old 20GB hard drives to the Elite's drive and Wired's Chris Kohler decided to let people know what they're getting themselves into if they eventually decide to acquire an Xbox 360 Elite, with a 120 gig storage drive. This came straight from Microsoft:

- You cannot put the data from two or more 20GB hard disks onto one 120GB hard disk. If you attempt - to move multiple drives, only the last one you move will be stored.
- You can only move data from the 20GB Hard Disk to the 120GB Hard Disk. Transferring data in the - - other direction, or any other combination, is not possible.
- Any data stored on the 120 GB hard disk will be automatically deleted.
- Any data stored on the 20GB hard disk will be automatically deleted after it is moved over.
- Once you move the data over, it cannot be placed back on the original hard disk.

So what can you do exactly with the big drive? Ride it to school?

Most notable is that Kohler also posted an earlier statement coming from Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg, encouraging people to get themselves two 20GB drives for their machines, one for games and one for movies and other content. Yet, people stuck with two such hard drives today won't be able to move content from both of them (or more drives for that matter) onto the Elite's bigger one:

"At this point we're not ready yet to roll out a bigger hard drive. I can tell you what people tell me they do to get around this. What they do is they put their Live account on a memory unit and then they have one hard drive that they put their games or related content on, and then they have another drive that they put their movies and TV on," said Greenberg.

Most probably, Microsoft's deal with the 120GB drive is security-related but, if there's one thing I've learned from security issues, is that the more they try to make them harder to hack into, the more devices get hacked. Hasn't Microsoft learned that yet?