lostsoulhd V.I.P. Lifetime Xbox Version: 1.0 160gb hdd, Modded: doux2 white + xenium gold
Joined: Apr 19, 2008 Posts: 113 Location: madison
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:34 pm Post subject: hitachi dvd drive in xbox
wow just did a softmod on a xbox and looking at the dvd drive
hitachi model gdr 805ol
Ive seen thomson, phillips, and samsung before but not hitachi
does anyone know how well this drive is compared to other models
thanks
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:28 am Post subject:
Thats kind of a matter of opinion bro, even 2 drives of the same brand don't always act the same.
Makes it a bit hard to say which one is better then the other.
I keep a stock pile of samsung 605's laying around myself.
neo_knight_037 Xbox-HQ Elite Member
Joined: Jun 19, 2007 Posts: 213 Location: Northern California
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:18 am Post subject:
I don't know much about HDD's also but I just realized that Western Digital/Maxtor and Hitachi have a 10,000RPM HDD, which I wish I would have been aware of this when I got my 400gb Seagate.
10,000RPM's vs. 5400RPM's makes a BIG difference for file transfer reasons..... _________________ Support A Hard Modder!
neo_knight_037 Xbox-HQ Elite Member
Joined: Jun 19, 2007 Posts: 213 Location: Northern California
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:22 am Post subject:
I do believe most Industries use for Data Storage a Western Digital/Maxtor and or Hitachi due to durability of their HDD, although I have heard good thing about the others, I think it is a matter of RPM's. _________________ Support A Hard Modder!
crackface47 Xbox-HQ Elite Member
Joined: Jan 30, 2007 Posts: 344 Location: GA, United States
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:07 pm Post subject:
western digital has better seek times, and is more reliable
Dkoots Moderator
Joined: Oct 13, 2007 Posts: 1015 Location: VA
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:03 pm Post subject:
Back to the DVD drive. I have a Hitachi-LG drive that works better than any other of my six XBOX drives. I've never had a disc it won't read. I've used cd-r, cd-rw, cd-rw data, dvd-r, dvd-rw, and dvd+rw. Again, never had a disc not work. No matter whats on it. _________________
crackface47 Xbox-HQ Elite Member
Joined: Jan 30, 2007 Posts: 344 Location: GA, United States
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:36 pm Post subject:
try dvd-ram,
Dkoots Moderator
Joined: Oct 13, 2007 Posts: 1015 Location: VA
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:18 am Post subject:
Sorry Crackface, but I don't have access to any of those. Never have needed one. _________________
crackface47 Xbox-HQ Elite Member
Joined: Jan 30, 2007 Posts: 344 Location: GA, United States
Joined: Apr 17, 2007 Posts: 5408 Location: Oregon, USA
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 5:39 am Post subject:
Since when does the xbox come with a hitachi drive? _________________
Dkoots Moderator
Joined: Oct 13, 2007 Posts: 1015 Location: VA
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject:
Since Day 1, I would presume. It's in my V1.0. You don't believe me? _________________
dartht33bagger Moderator
Joined: Apr 17, 2007 Posts: 5408 Location: Oregon, USA
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 3:54 am Post subject:
Unless thompson is hitachi then I've never heard of one. _________________
Dkoots Moderator
Joined: Oct 13, 2007 Posts: 1015 Location: VA
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:22 am Post subject:
I'll post a pic soon. It's actually Hitachi-LG and nowhere does it say Thompson. _________________
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 5:01 am Post subject:
Hitachi-LG GDR-8050L DVD Drive In Xbox
>> Microsoft is now using a new DVD-ROM drive in the Xbox console. Frequent modders or people with a very recent Xbox probably already saw this new drive for some time.
The new drive is made by Hitachi and LG ('H-L'), the model is GDR-8050L. The new drive appears in some Xbox consoles manufactured since end september 2004 (Xbox v1.6/v1.6b) and the build date of the drive is September 2004 or later. The drive has a white connector cable instead of yellow and the tray looks a lot like the one on the Thomson drive but with a wider cutout. From reports on our forums the drive seems to work fine with most DVD-+R, DVD-RW and CDRW media, but fails to boot most CD-R discs.
There's a forum discussion about this new DVD-ROM drive here[forums.xbox-scene.com] where they are also trying to find the PC drive from Hitachi and/or LG that matches the hardware of this new Xbox drive. If there's such a drive the firmware from the H-L Xbox drive could be flashed on the PC-drive. This PC-drive could then be used as cheap fully working (also boot orignal Xbox discs) replacement drive, like done with the discontinued Samsung 616T PC-drive(more info).
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