Original Xbox (Pre-owned) for £19.99

emujuice

anyone upgraded the hard drive? looking to do that with a big a drive as possible (and cheaply) any got a recommendation?
cheers

custardy

emujuice wrote: »

anyone upgraded the hard drive? looking to do that with a big a drive as possible (and cheaply) any got a recommendation?
cheers

ive always used maxtor drives in my xboxs

emujuice

what size hard drive do you have and do you know the limit? thanks

rubiales

emujuice wrote: »

anyone upgraded the hard drive? looking to do that with a big a drive as possible (and cheaply) any got a recommendation?
cheers

Same here. Are they pretty standard or do you need to look at specific models etc, please? Are they 2.5" laptop drives? Would like 120GB+ if poss.

Cheers

custardy

rubiales wrote: »

Same here. Are they pretty standard or do you need to look at specific models etc, please? Are they 2.5" laptop drives? Would like 120GB+ if poss.

Cheers

3.5" ATA desktop drives

emujuice wrote: »

what size hard drive do you have and do you know the limit? thanks

well there was a 120gb limit but this no longer applies
however bear in mind there is no real defrag utility for the xbox and the hard drives are not so well cooled
i tend to stick with 250gb or so as my max size

rubiales

custardy wrote: »

3.5" ATA desktop drives




well there was a 120gb limit but this no longer applies
however bear in mind there is no real defrag utility for the xbox and the hard drives are not so well cooled
i tend to stick with 250gb or so as my max size

Thanks for your help.

Is this one any good, do you think?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Maxtor-DiamondMax10-200GB-3-5-SATA-HDD_W0QQitemZ110269728680QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item110269728680&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318

Tharweb

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custardy wrote: »

3.5" ATA desktop drives

Don't you have to make sure your drive is compatible (lockable) or is this no longer an issue? http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?p=statistics

rubiales

Tharweb wrote: »

Don't you have to make sure your drive is compatible (lockable) or is this no longer an issue? http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?p=statistics

Oh dear! You've lost me already. A bit out of my comfort zone here methinks!

At the risk of sounding completely stupid, how do I find out which version my X Box is, please?

Tharweb

rubiales wrote: »

Oh dear! You've lost me already. A bit out of my comfort zone here methinks!

At the risk of sounding completely stupid, how do I find out which version my X Box is, please?

Sorry for confusing you but I don't understand this either...I had a spare 80GB drive that I found out wasn't lockable that's all...in the end I never bothered swapping the hard drive on mine as I stream from my PC...I think custardy will have to confirm the drive you are looking at is OK.

Just didn't want you shelling out only to find the drive wasn't suitable.

rubiales

Tharweb wrote: »

Sorry for confusing you but I don't understand this either...I had a spare 80GB drive that I found out wasn't lockable that's all...in the end I never bothered swapping the hard drive on mine as I stream from my PC...I think custardy will have to confirm the drive you are looking at is OK.

Just didn't want you shelling out only to find the drive wasn't suitable.

Thanks Tharweb!

If anyone knows the answer to finding out which version X-Box I have, would be very grateful.

It won't be me doing the modding - it's a project for my son who owns the X-Box and is home from Uni atm!!

thanks in advance:D