The very last production run of XBOX

360 drives don't use IDE, ever. SATA only.

The manufacturer is the same as early 360 drives and it may use similar parts but they're not 360 drives at all. Especially since that sucker is dated 2004 and the 360 came out in 2005. Granted prototypes existed in 2003 but there is little chance it was ever a 360 drive.

 

yeah i know that now,also thought perhaps it was some home made sata to ide bridge. im tellin ya my imagination was going wild trying to explain why this thing before me even exists!
so guys should i gut it,install modchip,put in a 250 gb hard drive and leds or leave it alone?

 

No old model Xbox is good stock anymore since the live service for it is dead. Not even the debug units.

Mod that bitch and don't look back.

Only time to leave one alone is for preserving a super rare model.

 

Debug units have their own merits and shouldn't be modded simply because someone is too lazy to mod a retail XBox. Hell you shouldn't even own a debug unit if you're going to own it for sake of anything other than a debug XBox.

But you're dead right in that there isn't any reason not to mod a retail XBox. None. With no Live service available you only hinder yourself by being unable to install DLC for games like Halo 2 where you can't just download the maps for free anymore. Granted there are map pack discs out there (I own one) but the maps were free damnit! And if the HDD dies you'll have to mod it to bring it back unless you enjoy removing and dumping the EEPROM.

 

What also bothers me is when people mod limited edition systems by adding 30000 LEDs inside. No it ruins the system.

 

Except for the idiot who mods it as they clearly think it's awesome. Then they try to sell it and find out that people have found more effective ways to read books at night.

 

Guys like this annoy me ! -___- now the thing that was broken still rare could of been sold off for parts is destroyed !http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TggHtINGIyc

 

Yeah never link that video again, it makes me cringe.

 

i would of stole that xbox from him had i known what he would of done to it lol

 

Had to link that video...

I hate it for obvious reasons. Destroyed a Crystal Dev Kit...

 

wow,as a restorer of consoles that really is blasphemy. gonna leave negative things in that guys youtube comment box! the fucker only used like 20% of the actual box. why not just fuckin make a case from scratch? boggles the mind. humanity is lost... *leaves planet*

 

This link needs to be censored so NO ONE can post it any more. I cry from it.

 

I died again today... thx... (or was it about my 666th post today). That link should be forbidden.
34 minutes till 2013

 

No not again!

 

Hi,

This is my first post to assembler games. I have had 4 Xbox's with the Hitachi/LG DVD drive. One was in a dead Xbox, so I ripped it out and installed it in a Halo Special Edition that had a 750GB HDD and Xecuter 3.0 mod chip installed. Far better than the crappy Phillips drive these came with. One Hitach/LG was faulty, so I sold it.

The two Xbox's that came with this DVD drive that I still have are:

1. NTSC(J) Xbox V1.6b, manufacturing date 2005.07.05. Totally stock.

2. PAL (Australia) Xbox V1.6b, manufacturing date 2005.08.11. Totally stock.

I think the Hitachi/LG is the best of the 4 DVD drives that were issued with the Xbox. Before I discovered these DVDs, I used to think that the Samsung was the best Xbox DVD drive (as long as you could get one that did not have a sticky DVD tray). The Samsung reads scratched media well. So does the Hitachi/LG, but without the sticky DVD tray problems of the Samsung.

Once I have worked out to post photos, I will post a photo of the Hitachi/LG DVD tray. It is very similar to the Xbox 360 DVD tray posted earlier in this thread.

ricey

 

Yes the trays are similar. They are the best drives for the system as well.

 

Wow, my thread revive! So the hunt for the last production of Xbox continues~

 

Just to point it out, most first gen 360s shipped out with Samsung MS25 drives.

 

August 20 2005 PAL
Looks like when the King Kong movie was released in the UK they repackaged them in King Kong boxes and included the game.

 

The only Xbox I had with a H-L DVD drive was a 1.6 that died.

Also,IMO good drives are the Philips drive and of course,the Samsung.

My dead 1.1 came with a Samsung that now is spare (weird,IIRC only 1.6 had that but I might be wrong) and my new 1.4 came with a Philips drive.

The former 1.1 was a paperweight after I accidentally unlocked the drive using my PC (stupid,stupid,STUPID ME!)while the other one works fine with X2 4981 and UnleashX.

On the other side,are the Winbond 1.4s more known than the ST/Hynix 1.4s?