XBOX HDD Questions

[rodercot]

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]

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

[xbs08]

Streaming is your friend, large 1 TB drives on a XBox aren't :D

[nicoli_k]

Here's the original thread with some answers for you: http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=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_brand=&v_modelnum=&v_size=1000&v_rpm=&v_buffersize=&v_locking=&v_version=&v_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]

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]

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...

[rogue21]

I modded my xbox with the dual HDD trick....

http://www.llamma.com/xbox/Mods/xbox_4_connector_ide_cable_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)