retrosherman Posted December 10, 2020 Report Share Posted December 10, 2020 Hello guys, I just upgraded my softmodded Xbox to a 500gb sata drive. Everything works great but.. it takes like 30 seconds to boot up which is kind of annoying. Could this be because of the sata adapter I'm using? I'm using an 80-wire ide cable so I know that's not the issue. Or are slower boot times normal? I haven't modded one of these for years. Just wondering, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acidmank Posted December 10, 2020 Report Share Posted December 10, 2020 In My Experience the cheap Chinese Sata adapter do tend to slow the initial boot down. I generally don't notice any change after that. Have you checked the jumper setting on the harddrive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS_Dave Posted December 10, 2020 Report Share Posted December 10, 2020 19 hours ago, retrosherman said: Hello guys, I just upgraded my softmodded Xbox to a 500gb sata drive. Everything works great but.. it takes like 30 seconds to boot up which is kind of annoying. Could this be because of the sata adapter I'm using? I'm using an 80-wire ide cable so I know that's not the issue. Or are slower boot times normal? I haven't modded one of these for years. Just wondering, thanks. Has the new drive had F and G drives correctly formatted? I have noticed a fully loaded 2tb(about 25 seconds) is about 5 seconds slower than a 90% full 500gb (around 20 seconds) on the same Xbox with a TSOP flash and a chinese Sata to Ide with both loading to XBMC4Gamers. So 30 seconds is not to bad. Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosherman Posted December 11, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2020 Sorry I couldn't reply for 24 hours, apparently I can only make 4 posts a day. Anyway.. I am using the SinLoon adapter form amazon, it only has a master and slave option, I have it on master. The boot is actually more like 20 seconds now that I timed it. The HDD seems to function well beyond that. Thank you both for letting me know that this behavior is expected. And yes I believe my F drive is correctly formatted it must be because it works fine, not using a G since it's only a 500gb HDD, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDShadow Posted December 11, 2020 Report Share Posted December 11, 2020 I think people forget how fast an IDE HDD boots in comparison to a SATA + adapter. When I switched over to using a WD SATA 320GB HDD from a WD 160GB IDE it was one of the first things I noticed, an almost doubling of the boot time from about 10 seconds to 20 seconds. All HDDs will slow down as content is added too. When a softmod is new and the HDD practically empty boot time and screen navigation are always much faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pstar Posted January 13, 2021 Report Share Posted January 13, 2021 I tried it with some different SATA adapters from different vendors. According to my experiences the boot time depends on the Bridge chip on the SATA adapter. I got significant slower boottimes with adapters using the JM20330 bridge chip, whereas with adpaters using Marvell-88SA8052 bridge chip (StarTECH, Digitus, equip, ...) boottimes were much faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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