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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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