Emu Newbie Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 Just curious as to what size hdd's everyone has. If you wouldn't mind please list the name of it too (I'm currently in the market for one). Thanks!
Devia Eleven Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 I'm using a 2TB Western Digital that costed me about $300 a few months ago.
ken_cinder Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 I'm using a 2TB Western Digital that costed me about $300 a few months ago. How do you manage that? XBPartitioner with 64k clusters? Without doing that, you can't possibly use the whole drive...even then you risk corruption.I have a 40GB drive in mine, I'm thinking of taking it out and putting a stock drive in it again...I have no use for 40GB with all my stuff being streamed.
The-Ice-Man Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 That's a crazy big drive for an Xbox. A 1TB drive would need 128k clusters to avoid corruption, so a 2TB may need 256k, not sure. XBPartitioner 1.1 works it out automatically when it does a format. I have a 250GB Western Digital drive in mine, and it's completely full. I may put a 500 in at some point if I can be bothered, but no bigger than that.
dballs Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 i have a 500 gb one. works great. also put one of those in my sisters xbox. then i have a 1 tb nas i stream from for all my tv shows currently. may put all my video on there to make more room for games, roms, and more xtras. but i still got 80 gigs free with tons of movies, emus, homebrews, and about 15 xbox games.
lordpro Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 i have a 250 gb hard drive in my console but i'm going to replace it with an 750gb. Also i have a 2tb nas streaming all my movies and tv shows.
lordpro Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 does anyone know the biggest hard drive the xbox console could handle without corruption?
RedCapsMan Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 500GB Western Digital in one, 320 GB WD in another and a couple stock ones to stream media around to different rooms. Western Digitals get high ranks for compatibility in the locking/unlocking department. I considered doing a 700+ GB drive at one point but its kinda not necessary if you stream videos from another shared drive in XBMC. That way you don't have to worry about renaming video files for the fatx format. I had a 500 GB refurbished seagate drive die on me and that was NOT fun. Learned a lesson there. I'd be interested to know what the full ResXtras are going to cost in GBs so I can plan on what the next harddrive I'll be getting will be.
cba.gy Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 2 x 160gb Western Digital, no video's/music just emulators.1 x 40gb Western Digital, just emulators.
darknior Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 Hi, good topic For my part i want upgrade my 250Go too ...But the real question before upgrade is ... how many place we must have for use all the emulators ith all roms and all EXtras ?????Because for films i use too a NAS with 4.2To lol On IDE we can find easyly 500Go HD!Some 750Go HD exist ... but nobody sold them All is SATA now ... and if we want use them on xbox, we must use a chip and an adaptator for that ... Do you think a 500Go HD is good for all the emulators and the ResX project ? Thanks
Devia Eleven Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 I'm using a 2TB Western Digital that costed me about $300 a few months ago. How do you manage that? XBPartitioner with 64k clusters? Without doing that, you can't possibly use the whole drive...even then you risk corruption.I have a 40GB drive in mine, I'm thinking of taking it out and putting a stock drive in it again...I have no use for 40GB with all my stuff being streamed. Oops, I didn't care to notice that this thread was posted in the XBOX section. In that case, I have two XBOXes. One has, a 120GB, and the other, has a 80GB Maxtor. I was initially thinking the thread was about HDDs in general.
Punika Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 WD Caviar Blue WD5000AAJB 500 GB The newest version of XBPartitioner detects the drive and select the needed cluster for formating.
The-Ice-Man Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 does anyone know the biggest hard drive the xbox console could handle without corruption?This is a good question. As we've said XBPartitioner will set the cluster size as high as needed depending on the drive's size, but I don't know if there's a limit on that. I wouldn't want to go above 1TB anyway coz 128k clusters is a lot of wasted space when there's lots of small files in a folder. And I wouldn't quite feel safe anyway. The stories of data corruption on partitions over 512GB put me off going any bigger than a 500GB drive anyway. I think 500GB is plenty big enough for an Xbox. The only reason my 250GB drive is full is coz I have all my games on the hard drive, coz I don't like getting up to put CDs in. I have almost a hundred games squeezed on and emulators, but I can't quite fit the full romsets on, which is the only reason I'd bother upgrading. 500GB would leave me with all my games, and all the emulators with full romsets, and still leave loads of room for music and movies if I wanted. Darknoir makes a good point about the availability of IDE drives though, the biggest I've found still available on UK retailer sites is a 500GB WD. Higher than that and it has to be SATA, and I wouldn't wanna have to use an adapter either.
mjstriker5 Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 Hi, good topic For my part i want upgrade my 250Go too ...But the real question before upgrade is ... how many place we must have for use all the emulators ith all roms and all EXtras ?????Because for films i use too a NAS with 4.2To lol On IDE we can find easyly 500Go HD!Some 750Go HD exist ... but nobody sold them All is SATA now ... and if we want use them on xbox, we must use a chip and an adaptator for that ... Do you think a 500Go HD is good for all the emulators and the ResX project ? Thanks I have a 1tb Sata (obviously) with an adapter. The adapters are pretty cheap and simply plug in. No need to modify anything so I wouldn't limit yourself based on that. But to answer your question I think that a 500gb would be more than enough unless you plan on putting a bunch of xbox games or movies on there as well. I am pretty sure 2tb is the limit at this point because it gives you the max split partition size of ~1 tb under the max cluster of 128k
Emu Newbie Posted February 3, 2010 Author Posted February 3, 2010 What would you say the price range would be on a 250gb - maybe even a 150gb I'm looking just to fill the xbox w/ emu's and roms (all that Xtra stuff - previews, box art, etc.) Ben
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