The dvd drive on mine went out right after the warranty. I did research and found out this happens to well over 50% of xbox 360 owners.
It would have cost 100+ bucks to fix it so instead, I bought my own drive, modded the firmware and it works perfectly! It took like 3 months to figure out, but now I can say I screwed MS with two stones. First I didn't pay them for the repair. Second, I can play burned games.
The only thing is I can't go on xbox live, but whatever it's not a big deal. Just buy a cheapo arcade version, swap the hdd and I'm golden
