A friend of mine is an engineer at Texas Instuments and recently informed me that they have completed work on a prototype hard drive that is expected to be used in the next model of the Xbox. Evidently, the harddrive will be able to hold between 8-10 GB and is around 1.5"X1.5"!!!!....sounds badass to me.

WHAT!!? Jesus Tapdancing Christ. . . .that's insane. Can you imagine an Xbox2 with a HD like that that used Blu-Ray DVDs? Insane. . . .

well they did say it was going to be a lot smaller right?? what type of interface is the new hd going to use?? ide or what?

Serial ATA probably.

i would hope that by 2005 we can get more than 10 GB..

http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/fji/fji100.html -- Small HDDs
http://www.itworld.com/Comp/3786/020931bluelaser/ -- New Discs

note that the new discs are 20/27GB Per Layer.. I'm Happy.

I also would hope for serial ATA (150 MBps)

no i relly hope its gonna be more then 10 gb and i dont care if its big in fact i think its great couse it makes it easier to modifie becouse of the pc parts in it