pande_monium
30-05-2012, 03:18 AM
@Tinks - remember I said I'm going to try using an external USB drive and connect it via a SATA cable to the RGH'd XBOX360? Well, it works!! ;p
@All - You don't really need to buy an expensive 2.5 laptop drive to use with the RGH'd XBOX. You can use a desktop 3.5" External SATA drives if you've got a spare. Well, that's what I did.
I had a spare DVD/HDD caddy and a 500Gb 3.5" SATA HDD. I hooked it up to the XBOX360 via a SATA Data Cable and I'm powering it via the caddy's power brick. So, instead of connecting the caddy via a USB 2.0 connection, I've connected it using a SATA cable - from the XBOX360 to the caddy!
An extremely simple mod... if you know how to open a HDD caddy and the XBOX360, your job's done!!
So, here's what you need:
XBOX slim/phat Opening tool + T8 Torx screwdriver - to open the XBOX360 up.
A normal 0.75m Sata Data cable - to connect the external USB drive to the XBOX360
A desktop external usb drive - we won't use the usb connection. Instead we'll use a SATA connection
Steps:
Open the XBOX up. There's loads of tutorials on the net to do this - please look it up. Just open the XBOX up till you can see the motherboard. You don't need to take it completely apart... just till the top cover comes off and you have access to the motherboard. You should see the red SATA HDD DATA cable attached to the port shown in the attached picture. To its left you'll see the DVD drive SATA Data cable - ignore this cable, don't touch it.
Unplug the existing SATA cable and run the 0.75m Sata cable through the HDD bay, under the SATA data/power cable connection port and to the port on the motherboard. Effectively, you'll have one end of the long SATA cable connected to the motherboard and the other end will be dangling out via the HDD bay from the side.
Assemble the xbox up again without the HDD in the bay (the cable runs through the bay now!). You'll be able to fit the sides to the XBOX easily despite the SATA cable wedged on one side.
Connect the other end of the SATA cable to the external powered 3.5 USB drive.
Power up your RGH'd XBOX. Go to XBOX Settings where the Storage section is. You should see the HDD here as an unknown HDD. Just format it using the XBOX (you'll need the console serial number... make sure you write it down from the console info section earlier).
That's it... create whatever folder strucutre you're happy with and copy your backups into this section. You're done!
Advantages:
Laptop HDDs are expensive. Desktop HDDs are comparatively cheaper. For the price of a 2.5 HDD, you can get a 3.5 HDD almost twice the size... sometimes 3 times! Plus, you could get one which is either 7200rpm or even 10000 rpm... or just use the one that you've got spare (that's what I did).
You can run your games via USB too... but SATA is MUUUUUCCCCCHHHHH faster than USB 2.0 ;p... surely you know that.
Hope you have fun!
@All - You don't really need to buy an expensive 2.5 laptop drive to use with the RGH'd XBOX. You can use a desktop 3.5" External SATA drives if you've got a spare. Well, that's what I did.
I had a spare DVD/HDD caddy and a 500Gb 3.5" SATA HDD. I hooked it up to the XBOX360 via a SATA Data Cable and I'm powering it via the caddy's power brick. So, instead of connecting the caddy via a USB 2.0 connection, I've connected it using a SATA cable - from the XBOX360 to the caddy!
An extremely simple mod... if you know how to open a HDD caddy and the XBOX360, your job's done!!
So, here's what you need:
XBOX slim/phat Opening tool + T8 Torx screwdriver - to open the XBOX360 up.
A normal 0.75m Sata Data cable - to connect the external USB drive to the XBOX360
A desktop external usb drive - we won't use the usb connection. Instead we'll use a SATA connection
Steps:
Open the XBOX up. There's loads of tutorials on the net to do this - please look it up. Just open the XBOX up till you can see the motherboard. You don't need to take it completely apart... just till the top cover comes off and you have access to the motherboard. You should see the red SATA HDD DATA cable attached to the port shown in the attached picture. To its left you'll see the DVD drive SATA Data cable - ignore this cable, don't touch it.
Unplug the existing SATA cable and run the 0.75m Sata cable through the HDD bay, under the SATA data/power cable connection port and to the port on the motherboard. Effectively, you'll have one end of the long SATA cable connected to the motherboard and the other end will be dangling out via the HDD bay from the side.
Assemble the xbox up again without the HDD in the bay (the cable runs through the bay now!). You'll be able to fit the sides to the XBOX easily despite the SATA cable wedged on one side.
Connect the other end of the SATA cable to the external powered 3.5 USB drive.
Power up your RGH'd XBOX. Go to XBOX Settings where the Storage section is. You should see the HDD here as an unknown HDD. Just format it using the XBOX (you'll need the console serial number... make sure you write it down from the console info section earlier).
That's it... create whatever folder strucutre you're happy with and copy your backups into this section. You're done!
Advantages:
Laptop HDDs are expensive. Desktop HDDs are comparatively cheaper. For the price of a 2.5 HDD, you can get a 3.5 HDD almost twice the size... sometimes 3 times! Plus, you could get one which is either 7200rpm or even 10000 rpm... or just use the one that you've got spare (that's what I did).
You can run your games via USB too... but SATA is MUUUUUCCCCCHHHHH faster than USB 2.0 ;p... surely you know that.
Hope you have fun!