=== PC power supply powering 360 hard drive? ===

[makks]

(Thx to rocket8080) Now that I know 360s have floating ground.


Would powering a 360 Hard Drive using PC power supply be unsafe?


The exact connection is as follows:

[PC PSU] ===== SATA-power cable ===== [Hard Drive] ===== SATA-data cable ===== [360 console]


Thank you in advance

 

[rocket8080]

No mate its not unsafe, youll be fine doing that.

 

[makks]

That is some fast reply xD

I have to add that the PC would be powered by the same power supply and turned on, at the same time as the 360 console.

No mate its not unsafe

Is that because PC power supply has true ground? And so the connected 360 is true grounded as well?

I hear that voltage differences can fry stuff when 360 is connected to PC but not also to true ground.

 

[rocket8080]

it has been said about the possibility of frying your 360 if it not true grounded when connected to the pc, but have never had this happen to me or heard of it happening to others on the forums. The voltages are the same for the sata power. Why do you want to connect your hard drive like this for?

 

[makks]

Better Performance 3.5" hard drive connected to data cable from inside 360 hard drive case, which is ofc plugged to the 360 hard drive port. Should yield much better speeds over lappy drives. (closer to 140mb/sec, SATA-1.5gbps cap)


I have to add that the PC would be powered by the same power supply and turned on, at the same time as the 360 console, tis ok?

 

[tony1160]

the voltages are not the same the xboxs Hdd uses 5v with the Pc using 12v

 

[makks]

the voltages are not the same the xboxs Hdd uses 5v with the Pc using 12v

I should have worded topic title better: PC power supply powering 3.5" 360 hard drive?

Just wondering if it safe to use an active PC's 12v PSU to power the 3.5" hard drive, whose data cable is fed to 360. PC is on and powered by same PSU at same time.

 

[rocket8080]

No the voltages are not the same between a 2.5" drive and a 3.5" drive. I assumed he would be using a adapter for the 2.5"

Better Performance 3.5" hard drive connected to data cable from inside 360 hard drive case, which is ofc plugged to the 360 hard drive port. Should yield much better speeds over lappy drives. (closer to 140mb/sec, SATA-1.5gbps cap)

Mate ive got a 750gb 2.5" drive in my MS caddy ive had no probs at all with loading times, data transfer speed has never been a issue. Plus its easier to do and looks neat. Seriously doing that will make little if any noticable difference.

 

[manwithoutname]

There is no difference in speeds between 3.5" and 2.5" drives. If you want to achieve better performance then get a drive that spins at a higher speed and has bigger cache memory (certainly not worth the extra money in my opinion for use with an xbox).

Suffice to say that my Samsung 5400RPM spinpoint 640gb 2.5" seem to perform and load faster than my stock 20gb and 120gb hard drives.

 

[rocket8080]

This is where i got my 750gb from

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/233904...edium=products

Although really you'll get 698gb after formatting it!!

 

[DaRkO]

the voltages are not the same the xboxs Hdd uses 5v with the Pc using 12v

lol actually they both use 12v and 5v which you can see if you look at a molex connector, yellow is 12v the blacks are ground and the red is 5/5.5v

EDIT: oh and also, if your really concerned, why dont you just buy an energyzer cable and power your whole 360 from that power supply? rather than having two power supplys!