Upvote for the sound they make when they fall down. I do wonder though why and how on earth would one acquire such amounts of hard drives just for modding xboxs'.

I'd rather rip them open for the super strong magnets inside. I have quite a few magnets from my old drives.

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Yeah I have quite a few of the magnets as well, amazing things.

Either that or you have one hell of a RAID system.

^ actually, that's what i was expecting / hoping this clip would be.

oh, he didn't give them to charity then.

what a waste ;-/

>> ^sillma:
I do wonder though why and how on earth would one acquire such amounts of hard drives just for modding xboxs'.


From modding xboxes, not for. These are 3.5" drives which means they're from the original xbox, not the 360 which has a 2.5" drive. That also means these are 8-10GB each, so they wouldn't be much use in a modern desktop PC unless you just wanted to browse the web and read email.

You don't have to swap the hard drive when you mod an xbox, but you'll severely limit what you can do with it if you don't. 8GB of the drive is reserved for the OS, game data, saved games, etc. If you've got a 10GB drive, as most of them do, that leaves you with 2GB for homebrew/pirated software. Even the most basic xbox games are near 1GB and some games are as large as 6GB or more. I have an 80GB drive in my modded xbox which lets me keep a number of games (about 16 currently) right on the hard drive instead of having to swap discs. Also I run xbmc, which was worth the cost of modding by itself. I often stream video from my computer to my TV via the xbox.

Someone should probably take "360" out of the tags.

you need more then 1500 hard drive to do this, you need plenty of free time!!
But it a good post! loved it.