Installing a SATA HDD into an original Xbox Part 1

[ipostmycommentshere]

Did the dvd drive work after you did this? I have a 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS that isn't listed on the xbox compatibility chart so I'm not sure if it supports locking yet. I ordered the same adapter as the one is this video last sunday, hasn't come in yet.

[Floydzabarber]

@ipostmycommentshere Yes, the dvd drive still worked after I did this.

[Soldierofoc]

Which harddrive do use exactly?

[SatoshiMatrix1]

What size drive did you use here?

Is there any advantage in putting in a Sata drive into the Xbox? I would think that the adapter, needing to translate Sata to IDE, would hinder the process making readspeeds slower than just if you used an IDE drive.

I'm not trying to troll this video, I'm legitimately curious why you would do this.

[Floydzabarber]

@SatoshiMatrix1 It is a 1.5 terabyte drive in the video. You are completely right, the adapter needs to translate SATA to PATA, which creates a total bottleneck and making it ultimately slower than having just a PATA drive. The reason why my friend is plain and simple, SPACE. Do you know how many original Xbox games or emulators and roms someone could put on these large SATA drives? One other reason is economical, large SATA drives are a hell of a lot cheaper than large PATA drives.

[axlingeric]

If I have a 2.5" sata drive, is there an adapter caddy you might suggest?

[Floydzabarber]

@axlingeric Adapter caddy? I'm not totally sure what you mean there. Do you mean a different Hard Drive Caddy or an IDE/SATA adapter? If you mean the Hard Caddy, you shouldn't need a different one just use your 2.5 in place of a 3.5, and if you mean a IDE/SATA adapter then just follow the link I put in my video description.

[ZatRVL]

thats the problem I cant use xboxhdm. So to confirm you do have the jumper on pins 1 and 3 and this adapter for cable select?

[Floydzabarber]

@ZatRVL Why can't you use XBOXHDM? I have tried setting the jumper in every which way and all of them worked the same, except for the slave setting I believe. I had the jumper set to master when I built the drive with XBOXHDM.

[ZatRVL]

I have the same adapter. Mine doesnt have the jumpers 5 and 6 but have read to jump 1 and 3 for cable select. So far it wont format in slayers. I am running a chip that works fine using ide hard drives. HELP!!!

[Floydzabarber]

@ZatRVL I have never formatted using slayers. I use XBOXHDM then after building my C and E partitions I FTP over Xbpartitioner and partition my extended partitions. Try doing that.

[Bodger2]

What speed is the original hard drive?

[Floydzabarber]

@Bodger2 5400 rpm