malarrya Posted November 15, 2019 Report Share Posted November 15, 2019 Hey everyone. I've been using a 500GB SATA laptop drive as my main hard drive for a few years now but it seems to be dying. I'd really like to hear your suggestions on what you find is the best quality or most cost effective drive you recommend. Do you use a 2.5 or 3.5 inch drive? Do you like standard, hybrid, or solid state drives? I was probably going to get one of these but if you know of something better, let me know. I like Seagate drives but am open to other brands you may find reliable. CHEAP: HP/Seagate Constellation 2TB 7200RPM 128MB Cache SATAhttps://www.amazon.com/HP-Constellation-ST2000NM0033-MB2000EXWCR-Enterprise/dp/B07V2BLGKT/ MIDDLE: Seagate BarraCuda 2TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-Internal-Drive-3-5-Inch/dp/B07H2RR55Q/ MORE EXPENSIVE: Seagate FireCuda Gaming (Compute) 2TB Solid State Hybrid Drive Performance SSHD – 2.5 Inch SATAhttps://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FireCuda-Gaming-Accelerated-Performance/dp/B07H2F3741/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acidmank Posted November 15, 2019 Report Share Posted November 15, 2019 If it were me, id buy the cheapest. Plain and simple. Given the little load on the drive it should last well past its warranty. As for speed. Whats a few more seconds? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malarrya Posted November 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2019 Yeah I was thinking, I could buy 3 of the cheap ones for the same price as 1 of the expensive. But then I thought, I can buy a 4GB drive, for about the same price as the expensive 2TB SSHD, for my arcade machine and take the 2GB out of that and use it in the Xbox. I'll probably go cheap though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c0tt0nm0ufh Posted November 15, 2019 Report Share Posted November 15, 2019 2 TB might be a touch much. I bought a 1 TB and have like 700 gigs free with my entire collection on there. Coin ops is just another 100 gig once I get it on there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malarrya Posted November 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2019 I had CoinOps, XBMC-EmuStation with SegaCD and bunch of other roms, XBMC4Gamers, a bunch of artwork for these, homebrew, about 90 Xbox games, and several other odds and ends. I was at a little over 400GB. So yeah you may be right but, in many cases, the 2TB isn't much more than a 1TB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikeymikey Posted November 15, 2019 Report Share Posted November 15, 2019 2tb is just enough to fit the entire xbox game collection on it NTSC and Pal exclusives (Minus the crappy Club Football games) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malarrya Posted November 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2019 Any suggestions for Hard Drive models/manufacturers? Should I go with the cheap one or does anyone have a model they swear by? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikeymikey Posted November 15, 2019 Report Share Posted November 15, 2019 I have used this one in 2 of my xboxs https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-Inch-BarraCuda-Internal-Drive/dp/B075WWN4QJ/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=2N8KUWNFG8P72&keywords=2tb+hard+drive&qid=1573861418&sprefix=2tb%2Caps%2C176&sr=8-2-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzTFRTNVo2MzAzSVlOJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNjAzMjU3TFBLV0o5SUE4UlEzJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAxMjU5OTlUQlRKQkI2QlE0MUUmd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malarrya Posted November 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2019 I decided to go with this one since it can be delivered today and is about the cheapest it's ever been for a pretty fast drive: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FireCuda-Gaming-Accelerated-Performance/dp/B07H2F3741 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c0tt0nm0ufh Posted November 16, 2019 Report Share Posted November 16, 2019 (edited) Fair enough, but just FYI I've bought the 1 TB for both of my friends Xbox. It was $35 free 2 day shipping. So not the smallest jump from $35 to 60. With the difference you could have gotten a nice Startech. Edited November 16, 2019 by c0tt0nm0ufh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-9 Posted November 16, 2019 Report Share Posted November 16, 2019 I'm running a Seagate 7200 Green paid 60 for it, I'm happy with it I still have 1,5 gig still til use up lol Anyone got a cheaper drive a 2t? That they bought ? Gonna add one to my sons Xbox soon , I seen a Ibm one on ebay for like $35 good or bad? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benur75 Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 Hello, for compatibility with ATA to SATA adapter, I would advice you to buy a WD BLUE. 2TB is perfect for full Xbox collection. Prefer something that long last. Use Chimp to make 2 partitions of about 980 Mb. The sectors must be 64 kb and not 128 kb. If you use Xpartitionner 1.3, dont forger to first remove small 127 Mb F drive and save and reboot, before créatine F and G. Bye 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malarrya Posted November 18, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2019 On 11/17/2019 at 12:41 AM, Benur75 said: Hello, for compatibility with ATA to SATA adapter, I would advice you to buy a WD BLUE. 2TB is perfect for full Xbox collection. Prefer something that long last. Use Chimp to make 2 partitions of about 980 Mb. The sectors must be 64 kb and not 128 kb. If you use Xpartitionner 1.3, dont forger to first remove small 127 Mb F drive and save and reboot, before créatine F and G. Bye Well crud, I already got the Seagate Firecuda but it seems to be working wonderfully. I did use XBPartitioner to create the F&G drives but didn't know about any 127MB F Drive I should have removed. I don't see any extra drives when I browse with the File Explorer and the partitions seem to be the same size. I only have about 500GB of data at this point anyways so if I lose 127MB at some point I won't be too upset. I don't really need the entire Xbox collection as I like playing the homebrew, CoinOps, and Emulators on it so I would run out of space anyways. Honestly, I just wanted something that works fast and lasts. The Seagate has a 5 year warranty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malarrya Posted November 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2019 On 11/18/2019 at 12:07 PM, malarrya said: Well crud, I already got the Seagate Firecuda but it seems to be working wonderfully. I did use XBPartitioner to create the F&G drives but didn't know about any 127MB F Drive I should have removed. I don't see any extra drives when I browse with the File Explorer and the partitions seem to be the same size. I only have about 500GB of data at this point anyways so if I lose 127MB at some point I won't be too upset. I don't really need the entire Xbox collection as I like playing the homebrew, CoinOps, and Emulators on it so I would run out of space anyways. Honestly, I just wanted something that works fast and lasts. The Seagate has a 5 year warranty. Upon further inspection, it looks like I did everything correctly. When I first started XBPartitioner 1.3 it did show ER for both the F&G drives. I decided to format them anyway. I think I may have just formatted them with something that did not show an error then reformatted with the 2 TB split onto each drive (~927GB). Whatever I did, the drive is working just fine and UnleashX shows the correct amount of space for each drive (949,055.088 MB). I've been restoring all my backups, emulators, CoinOps, and game saves and still have well over 600GB on the F Drive and no hiccups yet. Looks like the drive I bought on Saturday also went back up in price about $27 so I am glad I sniped it when I did. So, not to hijack my own thread but, when you guys fill up your 2TB drive with a pre-made torrent from ArcadePunks or wherever, do you use CHIMP to clone the drives or something else? Whatever you use, how long does it take to clone a 2TB drive that's full? I ask because restoring from FTP takes a long time 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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