My Xbox 360 External Dvd Drive Enclosure! Options

[finalman]

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The Drive Plus the Enclosure:



This post has been edited by finalman: Dec 16 2008, 10:27 PM

[finalman]

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The Eject Setup:










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Inside The Enclosure:









This post has been edited by finalman: Dec 16 2008, 10:35 PM

[trogdor097]

that eject button is amazing

[BombTester]

Yeah thats Nice And Just need to Be Sprayed Better Take it to a car shop for them to Spray paint it

[wenyong]

Man the pictures are awesome! That's gonna help me damn a lot i tell you.

So bout the eject button, it's the same one which was on the motherboard right? Just that you've extent it by wires? Just to check before i start modding mine:)

Once again, thanks for the pictures!

[finalman]

Man the pictures are awesome! That's gonna help me damn a lot i tell you.

So bout the eject button, it's the same one which was on the motherboard right? Just that you've extent it by wires? Just to check before i start modding mine:)

Once again, thanks for the pictures!

No the eject button is a reset button that i got out of an old pc case then i just glued it to the drive in the right place.

[tinker78]

nice dude, i just made my drive external too,,,, cooling mod. thanks for the idea. gonna have to do something similar.
keep up the good work.

[finalman]

2 more pics showing the drive plus the enclosure with the eject wires showing.





Also with all of the positive comments i think i'll clean up the sanding job and maybe even get it painted by car painting people. Great idea BombTester.

My Christmas holidays start in afew days and I have like a fortnight off so it should be able to get it looking great.

[GamerBR]

Really nice.
Small sugestion:Buy a heatsink used by the cpu and put in the gpu,cheap and easy and it will cool the gpu much better.

[wenyong]

Thanks for all the awesome pictures!

One last request... Are u able to take pictures on how the dvd drive is connected to the motherboard? and how does it look like from the back of dvd drive? Thanks!

[BombTester]

Thanks

[finalman]

Here are two pics of the original 360 case or should i say whats left of it.

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The paint jobs a bit messy cause i was using the mangled case to see how the different colors would look on the external drive.

This post has been edited by finalman: Dec 19 2008, 10:31 AM

[woody21_1]

have you any more updates on this...

i would like to see the connectors that youre gonna use on the back of the 360, im looking at doing tha same kinda thing with a hddvd drive case but the 360 its for has an xcm chameleon case and i really dont want to butcher it much.
i was thinking another hdmi connector but soldering the pins on the back of it just isnt doable. so im looking for any clever ideas

[reptileink]

Since I have no clue, I will just ask. Why wouldn't you just run the wires through the game case behind the external DVD drive? That way they will be hidden and much cleaner in appearance.

[finalman]

have you any more updates on this...

i would like to see the connectors that youre gonna use on the back of the 360, im looking at doing tha same kinda thing with a hddvd drive case but the 360 its for has an xcm chameleon case and i really dont want to butcher it much.
i was thinking another hdmi connector but soldering the pins on the back of it just isnt doable. so im looking for any clever ideas

Updates include:

1. I've sanded the external enclosure back with 1200 grit sand paper. Haven't repainted yet but am almost ready to do so.

2. Ordered and Received the internal to external connectors. Including:

Esata Cable - esata to sata 1m (pictured) and 1.8m
Esata bracket - internal sata to external esata connector
internal to external connector dvd power cable



3. Made the case mod for the new consoles connectors look



I've decided where i am finally goig to mount the internal to external connectors on the console. They will be mounted above the network and usb port on the top half of the back of the console. So that it looks neat i have decided to replicate / mirror the case shape around the usb and network port so that the internal to external connectors look good. Here is an illustration of what i want it to look like.



Also I've decided that i'm going to wait till i get a jasper model though so that could be afew weeks to afew months away since i'm in Australia and they still quite rare.

When i get it and start i'll post more updates and pics.

This post has been edited by finalman: Jan 11 2009, 01:53 AM