Hey All,
I have a bunch of soft-modded xboxes lying around here and I was going to load them up with current xbmc and give them to family members.
I know one of them has an original drive and the other I installed an 80GB and finally a 320Gb.
Can I install 1TB drives in place of the existing or is there a limit on size.
Thanks,
Dave
LOL! 320 GIGABYTES?! Are you joking? That is kind of large. I do fine with my 8 gigabyte drive. Just put a 60-70 gigabyte one in there, and you'll be fine for years to come.
- 2 Bunny
Streaming is your friend, large 1 TB drives on a XBox aren't
Here's the original thread with some answers for you:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=13821 (pay close attention to the 3rd post to avoid corrupting your data)
I've got a softmodded box with a 500GB harddrive in it and love it. Unfortunately, I didn't read about formatting my G: with 32k clusters and lost all the data on that partition once I went over 256GB. I have since reformatted with the right size cluster and it's fixed.
This is a link to the site that I used to find the compatible list:
http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?p=list&v_br..._postedby= I limited it to 1TB drives for you.
Streaming is nice, but having it on the box is awesome since I can take it to a friend's house and watch stuff or play games without having to worry about carrying a flash drive, DVDs, or any other media.
The limit is 2tb. To go above 750gb, you'll likely need a SATA drive. Many SATA adapters don't seem to work too well, so it's a bit hit-and-miss at that level of capacity.
Streaming is nice, but having it on the box is awesome since I can take it to a friend's house and watch stuff or play games without having to worry about carrying a flash drive, DVDs, or any other media.
Yep
this is always handy.... done a fair few for people for this reason... turn up, plug in and you have a heap of media ready to go...
I modded my xbox with the dual HDD trick....
http://www.llamma.com/xbox/Mods/xbox_4_c..._udma_.htm
Got 2x 500gig HDD in the xbox (removed the dvd drive..didnt need it)
1 Terabyte of data in total
Mounted a switch on the back of unit to switch between HDD's. (when the power is off)