Right now there are three main options for the Xbox storage:
Us an HDD: Will likely fail after 10ish years according to random people online. It will die slowly with some software here and there failing
Use an SSD: Will likely fail after 5ish years according to random people online. One day they just apparently die
CF Card: Die after a few years because of constant rewrites. The CF card can only take so many write cycles
But what if for the CF card I locked the card (Like an SD has, a physical switch) so that the console could only read from the CF? Then do my game saves on a memory card in the controller? Or just ignore saves altogether if im using it for just system link or emulation?
Would that, theoretically, give me the most stable storage option? Or would that cause issues because nothing can write to the card? Or would the Xbox simply not care that its locked?