TrantaLocked

There is actually a report on a Crucial SSD that is similar to the Crucial 240GB SSD I just purchased that says it is lockable. That unit was only $40 and it would work as external storage if it doesn't work in the Xbox. If it doesn't work then I would just get a regular hard drive and make sure to get a new one.

It is a soft modded 1.6. I intend to find a way with it as is, and did decide to try out the SATA to IDE route and am going with an SSD. One thing I'm concerned about is games getting bugged out with SSDs, is that really a thing?

I bought a couple used IDE Seagate 160GB ST3160215ACE drives for cloning and backup. I'm a bit disappointed though because despite them being the same model, one of them vibrates significantly more than the stock drive while the other vibrates like normal but has a longer boot to dashboard time. I tried swapping the IO chip that screws to the bottom of the drive with no difference. I also tried re-cloning with Chimp and it resulted the same way. With that second, slower boot drive, the first time I tried to clone with Chimp it showed something like "IO error" a few times and so I had to restart the Xbox and reseat everything and then Chimp went ahead and cloned with no errors. I wonder if maybe there are bad sectors that are slowing it down maybe? You'd think it might be something like the drive being set to 5400 RPM mode in its firmware (if that's even possible), but then why would it take longer to boot than the stock WD 8GB 5400 RPM drive? So I'm not sure if I should be fine or if there's anything I can do to solve this or maybe just get another new drive? I don't like the extra vibration on the first drive but I also want a fast bootup, because the second drive adds like 10 seconds.

My original xbox also gets warm when turned off and plugged in. It's a 1.6 with a Delta power supply. The right side of the xbox feels maybe 5-10 degrees F warmer than the left side.