I know it’s possible as Modern Vintage Gamer has shown it, but sadly it wasn’t working on my end so I had to omit it. I wanted to also test Compact Flash, however I couldn’t get the Xbox to work with any of my IDE to compact flash adapters as I own a couple of them. I’ve used SD cards as hard drive replacements in retro computers in the past and wanted to see what kind of affect it would have on the Xbox if any. I also decided to include a high performance SD card into the mix along with an IDE to SD card adapter. However the article doesn’t specify if that faster loading time was when the game was played from DVD or if the game was played from hard drive. And according to this article, an 80 wire IDE cable will deliver 25% faster load times over a 40 wire IDE cable. The stock cable is 24 inches long, however an 18 inch one will work with some finessing. You have to replace it with an 80 wire IDE cable to work. The stock IDE cable in the Xbox is a 40 wire ribbon cable and unfortunately will not work with any IDE to SATA bridge adapter. We also need one more thing: an 80wire IDE cable. Simply plug it into the end of the IDE cable, and set the jumper to the correct settings (cable select). For this article I have chosen the Startech IDE to SATA bridge adapter with the model number IDE2SAT2. To use a SATA drive in the OG Xbox, we need to adapt the IDE connection to SATA. SATA also offered the benefit of supporting far greater transfer speeds than IDE ever did which allowed for things like Solid State Drives to become commonplace in computers starting about 5 or 6 years ago.Īnd this brings us to the subject of this article: What kind of performance advantage do SATA drives deliver in comparison to the older IDE drives in the original Xbox? And for good measure, what kind of performance increase or decrease does different types of Solid State media provide in comparison to spinning hard drives? Rather than chaining multiple drives to 1 IDE ribbon cable in a Slave and Master configuration, SATA moved to a 1 device per port style configuration. SATA drives offered many benefits over their IDE counterparts such as no longer requiring jumpers to be set for Master, Slave or Cable Select operation and gone was the requirement of the air flow blocking IDE ribbon cables instead replaced with a thin SATA data cable. IDE drives are now an all but forgotten relic of years gone by superseded by far more modern storage technologies such as Serial ATA (SATA), and even direct attached PCI Express based solutions such as NVME.īy the mid 2000s IDE harddrives were already on their way out and being replaced with SATA drives. Long gone are the days of strolling into a CompUSA or Best Buy and picking up whatever high capacity IDE harddrive was on sale and slapping it into a modded original Xbox.
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