XBOX HDD Questions

rodercot · 2009-06-21 17:44

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

2 Bunny · 2009-06-21 19:44

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.

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xbs08 · 2009-06-21 21:00

Streaming is your friend, large 1 TB drives on a XBox aren't Big Grin

**nicoli_k** · 2009-06-21 21:39

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.

Bomb Bloke · 2009-06-22 04:07

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.

Geeba · 2009-06-22 12:23

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 Wink

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...

rogue21 · 2009-06-23 08:00

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 Smile

Mounted a switch on the back of unit to switch between HDD's. (when the power is off)

rodercot Member+ Posts: 795 Joined: Feb 2008 Reputation: 25 Location: Ottawa, Canada	2009-06-21 17:44 Post: #1 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
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2 Bunny Member Posts: 85 Joined: Jun 2009 Reputation: 0 Location: In my house	2009-06-21 19:44 WOW Reply Post: #2 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
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xbs08 Posting Freak Posts: 1,298 Joined: May 2008 Reputation: 0 Location: Portugal	2009-06-21 21:00 Post: #3 Streaming is your friend, large 1 TB drives on a XBox aren't
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Bomb Bloke Posting Freak Posts: 787 Joined: Jan 2009 Reputation: 2 Location: Tasmania (AU)	2009-06-22 04:07 Post: #5 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. XBMC Manual - BlackBolt - SVN Guide - Skin SVN - Wide Icon SVN - ROM Shortcut Generator You're just jealous 'cause the voices only talk to me :P
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Geeba Posting Freak Posts: 1,805 Joined: Sep 2006 Reputation: 0 Location: UK	2009-06-22 12:23 Post: #6 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...
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rogue21 Junior Member Posts: 19 Joined: Mar 2009 Reputation: 0	2009-06-23 08:00 Post: #7 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)
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