Crisp Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Has anyone tested an SSD inside the new Xbox 360 slim? Was wondering if the load times would be faster. I know some multiplayer games, you load in quicker when the games saved on the HDD so you can get into the fight before everyone else. I'm thinking of trying this out with a 30GB SSD. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1003684-ssd-in-an-xbox-360/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerax Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I don't see why not, aslong as you format it to FATX or XTAF. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1003684-ssd-in-an-xbox-360/#findComment-594055944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZakO Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 AFAIK the 360 only works with specific HDDs (unless you have it JTAGed, or use that kit from Xecuter which doesn't support SSDs... or use it via USB which would negate any advantages). How are you going to achieve this? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1003684-ssd-in-an-xbox-360/#findComment-594055948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsthenewDC Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 On 08/06/2011 at 23:18, SCRISP said: I know some multiplayer games, you load in quicker when the games saved on the HDD so you can get into the fight before everyone else. I'm thinking of trying this out with a 30GB SSD. Don't most/all multiplayer games do a countdown sync anyways before a match begins? So loading in faster for those games seems irrelevant. For single player games I could see that being more of an advantage. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1003684-ssd-in-an-xbox-360/#findComment-594055956 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crisp Posted June 8, 2011 Author Share Posted June 8, 2011 On 08/06/2011 at 23:22, ZakO said: AFAIK the 360 only works with specific HDDs (unless you have it JTAGed, or use that kit from Xecuter which doesn't support SSDs... or use it via USB which would negate any advantages). How are you going to achieve this? Oh well, that's the answer I was looking for. If it's not compatable then I wont buy one. On 08/06/2011 at 23:27, itsthenewDC said: Don't most/all multiplayer games do a countdown sync anyways before a match begins? So loading in faster for those games seems irrelevant. For single player games I could see that being more of an advantage. Not with Battlefield. You load in much faster than people who are running it from the disc. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1003684-ssd-in-an-xbox-360/#findComment-594055972 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerax Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 On 08/06/2011 at 23:39, SCRISP said: Oh well, that's the answer I was looking for. If it's not compatable then I wont buy one. He said "AFAIK", the fact is any HDD will work, it just needs to be formatted correctly. Format it with xTAF/FATx. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1003684-ssd-in-an-xbox-360/#findComment-594056042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsYcHoKiLLa Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Doesn't look good Apparently this would be the place to ask and HDDHackr would be the tool to use. Also, the drive would probably be thrashed which would bring it's life expectancy right down as you're not supposed to use SSDs for things like pagefiles, etc which involve a lot of disk activity. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1003684-ssd-in-an-xbox-360/#findComment-594056050 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerax Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 One of my friends made this; http://fatxplorer.eaton-works.com/download/ It's a FATX Explorer, i believe it does infact format NTFS/FAT drives to FATx. It has a 3 day trial (don't buy it, since you only need it once). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1003684-ssd-in-an-xbox-360/#findComment-594056100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 On 09/06/2011 at 00:12, Xerax said: He said "AFAIK", the fact is any HDD will work, it just needs to be formatted correctly. Format it with xTAF/FATx. No, that is not correct. Not just any HDD will work if you format it. You need to use the tool HDDHackr to prepare certain drive models (Western Digital), then you let the Xbox itself format the drive. Alt HDDHackr link. On 09/06/2011 at 00:37, Xerax said: One of my friends made this; http://fatxplorer.eaton-works.com/download/ It's a FATX Explorer, i believe it does infact format NTFS/FAT drives to FATx. It has a 3 day trial (don't buy it, since you only need it once). There are free tools for that. Like this one: http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox360-tools/Xplorer360.php Sadly a SSD will not work. But it is possible to use faster than stock 7200RPM drives like this one after using HDDHackr on it. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1003684-ssd-in-an-xbox-360/#findComment-594074898 Share on other sites More sharing options...
George P Global Moderator Posted June 16, 2011 Global Moderator Share Posted June 16, 2011 I don't think FATX is SSD friendly and would, if it could even work, crap the SSD out from lots of random reads/writes and so on. The idea is nice though since you'd def get faster load times off of the SSD. Offtopic a bit, I fully expect the next Xbox to support SSD if not coming with a build in SSD of it's own in some form. I'm thinking maybe as a buffer which will preload data and hold it instead of reading it off of a bigger and slower HDD. The same idea with those hybrid HDD drives for example. By the time the next Xbox comes out the price for 32GB SSD etc should be low enough to make it possible, and that should be enough to hold the data needed for a game, so as you're playing the system can load the files it needs from the disc or hdd to the internal ssd or onboard flash as a big buffer to basically get rid of load times as we know them. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1003684-ssd-in-an-xbox-360/#findComment-594075160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 On 16/06/2011 at 06:59, GP007 said: I don't think FATX is SSD friendly and would, if it could even work, crap the SSD out from lots of random reads/writes and so on. The idea is nice though since you'd def get faster load times off of the SSD. Offtopic a bit, I fully expect the next Xbox to support SSD if not coming with a build in SSD of it's own in some form. I'm thinking maybe as a buffer which will preload data and hold it instead of reading it off of a bigger and slower HDD. The same idea with those hybrid HDD drives for example. By the time the next Xbox comes out the price for 32GB SSD etc should be low enough to make it possible, and that should be enough to hold the data needed for a game, so as you're playing the system can load the files it needs from the disc or hdd to the internal ssd or onboard flash as a big buffer to basically get rid of load times as we know them. I agree. An SSD or just a large flash storage would be great in the next console. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1003684-ssd-in-an-xbox-360/#findComment-594080584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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