RoofTop Posted December 2, 2018 Report Share Posted December 2, 2018 I am planning to buy a new 2 TB HDD, with 7200 rpm and 64 mb buffer. I wonder if the rpm and buffer has anything to say for performance ? Or perhaps the old xbox cant handle this ? It wil be used in a tsop'ed xbox 1.4 with 128mb ram and 1ghz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John7272 Posted December 2, 2018 Report Share Posted December 2, 2018 the 7200rpm seem to work the same as the 5400rpm. I have used a wide variation of drives but have not exclusively made timing comparisons except CoinOps load times. they seem to boot about the same. The main diference I noticed is the 7200rpm builds more heat. I try to use the 5400 or 5900 rpm drives because they run much cooler. Of course this is my experience but I did make a lot of Xbox builds. I was building 2 a month for the last 2 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoofTop Posted December 3, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2018 Thanks for the reply. Guess i will go for something that runs cooler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psnap777 Posted December 3, 2018 Report Share Posted December 3, 2018 I use 7200 rpm drives in my Xboxs and notice a performance boost over 5400 rpm drives. I'm sure they must run a little hotter since they spin faster but I havent noticed my Xboxs running too hot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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