Ive got a western digital 36gig "raptor" - its 10k rpm and serial ATA... is there any way to get this into my box.... hopefully without loosing speed by going back to IDE?

You are stuffed man as there is no way i know of in getting a serial ata to ide adaptor but there is an ide to serial ata adaptor,The xbox use's ise so why the hell would you buy a serial ata hard drive?

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The xbox use's ise so why the hell would you buy a serial ata hard drive?

lol i thought exactly the same thing.... and i havnt seen any SATA->IDE converters either...
i think you just wasted your money there dude.
and i wouldnt want a 10,000rpm hdd in my box anyways, it would produce too much heat.

Plus you wouldn't actually notice any major performance increase. Nope no faster transfer speeds, or write speeds because xbox uses ATA/33 controller, which limits the use of any HDD to that speed.

i think yavimaya is about to have a "D'OH" moment.

Buy a cheap 5400RPM EIDE drive. It'll cost about half as much and hold 3 times the number of games.

QUOTE (Xeero @ Jul 29 2003, 02:41 PM)

Buy a cheap 5400RPM EIDE drive.  It'll cost about half as much and hold 3 times the number of games.

EIDE.... .LOL, is that a new standard?

QUOTE (Blind_Samurai @ Jul 29 2003, 09:42 AM)

QUOTE (Xeero @ Jul 29 2003, 02:41 PM) Buy a cheap 5400RPM EIDE drive.  It'll cost about half as much and hold 3 times the number of games. EIDE.... .LOL, is that a new standard?

You're joking, right?

Of course I am joking. I didn't mean to offend you sorry.
EDIT :Sorry didn't knoe EIDE was Enchanced IDE.

nah it isnt a waste of money, im new to Xbox hacking, this was a learning experience, and can use the drive in my PC

hmm so you say the got 33mhz IDE port, whats the "E" part you added before??
also i gather that the ram is the 2 small square chips? and there is room for 2 more?
how much does ram cost (aus. dollars ) ? and does it help?
i really want to pump the bitch up, HDD space is no concern for me... i want speed, anything for speed, need to drop those loading and saving times!

any advice for a newb would be appreciated

you should really do a search, because adding ram has been discussed many times before, and isnt really worth it even if you had the skills to install it. (it is not easy to install)

and the E in EIDE stands for enhanced. if you want a bigger hdd then take xeero's advice get a cheaper 5400rpm drive for the box.

damn that raptor 10k cost a bitch load of money

EIDE has been the standard for some time and replaced IDE a while ago. However, most people just throw around IDE casually. I use 'IDE' most of the time to save myself a keystroke, though sometimes that sneaky 'E' weasels it's way in there.

QUOTE (unsc1 @ Jul 30 2003, 04:14 PM)

damn that raptor 10k cost a bitch load of money

Meh, aus$270 isnt that much

and Marduke, nice xbox colors man damn nice painting job, what did you use? enamel paint?

QUOTE (marduke @ Jul 29 2003, 01:12 PM)

QUOTE The xbox use's ise so why the hell would you buy a serial ata hard drive? and i wouldnt want a 10,000rpm hdd in my box anyways, it would produce too much heat.

LOL heat! with the fan mod i have my standard HDD doesnt even get luke warm.... im sure a 10k spin would bearly get hot... if it was possible to put in

lol fair enough..

thanks for the compliments!
ummm i used tamiya model paint, they have a nice range of colours, and the paint is very durable (have knocked afew things against it, and it hasnt chipped yet..
its about $10AUD per 100ml can (not really that cheap for paint) but well worth it in my opinion.

to install extra ram is incredibly useless for a new user and 99% useless for most advanced users. I think there is one person on the forums who did it, but im not sure.

To add more RAM you would have to solder about 100 points within like 0.2 mm of eachother..maybe more or less than 100, not sure about the exact number.

QUOTE (brahm2 @ Jul 31 2003, 06:37 PM)

to install extra ram is incredibly useless for a new user and 99% useless for most advanced users. I think there is one person on the forums who did it, but im not sure. To add more RAM you would have to solder about 100 points within like 0.2 mm of eachother..maybe more or less than 100, not sure about the exact number.

For myself soldering points like that wouldn't be a problem, I've soldered smaller, but correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that I read somewhere that adding ram wouldn't make any difference to the game performance.

I can't remember which post I read this on but I thought that it would cause more headaches the good because the games are meant to run with the existing ram and adding more ram would cause problems.

Not sure about this so by all means, anybody who knows please correct me if I'm mistaken.

yea wing, games are limited to use the 64MB it comes with, but ive seen a couple of hack progs that trick the game into using all 128mb... etc

QUOTE (yavimaya @ Jul 31 2003, 03:54 PM)

yea wing, games are limited to use the 64MB it comes with, but ive seen a couple of hack progs that trick the game into using all 128mb... etc

yes, I have also read this too.128mb of ram would be very useful for Linux also.

QUOTE (brahm2 @ Jul 31 2003, 06:37 PM)

To add more RAM you would have to solder about 100 points within like 0.2 mm of eachother..maybe more or less than 100, not sure about the exact number.

It's 100-150 pins with pins 0.5mm apart.

who would bother with that? linux is the only use i can see it good for, but why not go and get a 200$ barebone system like this one from Wal-Mart


its better than the xbox (for linux) and only like 30$ more

Bah! my point is i want to do major hardware mods! not really/ just case mods, looks arent everything
although the more i hear the more i think that stopping the small amount of lag that alot of games have ( i can imagine what halo2 will be like), i also want the Loading and Saving times atleast halved!

QUOTE (Xeero @ Jul 30 2003, 10:22 AM)

EIDE has been the standard for some time and replaced IDE a while ago. However, most people just throw around IDE casually. I use 'IDE' most of the time to save myself a keystroke, though sometimes that sneaky 'E' weasels it's way in there.

And IDE has also been thrown around to indicate ATA drives, since technically IDE includes both ATA and SCSI drives.