S-ATA HDD Upgrade

[Dan Dar3]

Has anyone tried or at least thought to try to use a S-ATA hdd drive in Xbox?

I was thinking to use a hdd that I already have from my desktop, 200 GB Seagate S-ATA drive (ST3200822AS; the IDE version seems quite lockable according to the Xbox Hard Drive Compatibility Chart), and put in the Xbox using an adapter like IOI IDE-SATA01 or IDE-SATA04 (http://www.ioi.com.tw/bridgeboards/ide-sata01.html and http://www.ioi.com.tw/bridgeboards/ide-sata04.html).

I'd really appreciate your thoughts, before throwing my money away

Dan

 

[tchild]

will not work, here is a post http://teamxecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30074&highlight=SATA+PATA

 

[Dan Dar3]

Thanks for the post, Tchild, although I couldn't see anything tehnical against my idea - the guy was just advised not to buy a SATA drive, as there will be no performance gain, while I already have the drive...

 

[tchild]

ok, was trying to so that the interface for each is different. the xbox was set up for a pata drive (controller). here is a white paper explaining the difference. http://www.worldvisions.ca/files/whitepapers/SATAvsPATA.pdf#search='Sata%20Vs%20Pata'

 

[Dan Dar3]

If you have a look at the adapters I mentioned before, you can see that they are bridge controllers, and they are designed to connect S-ATA drives to IDE host controllers.

 

[Sheepie]

man thats not a good idea, i tired using the manhatten IDE to SATA in my PC as i thought the thin cables would make my pc look neater, damn thing was not reliable.