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I thought I remember there being adapters which allowed you to use regular 2.5inch hard drives on the xbox 360. Maybe my mind is just tricking me again though.

scintill76 4y ago
It seems to me they could MITM the SATA link and effectively do the "HDDHackr" method to make that work. I don't know though.
Lammy 4y ago
That was possible over USB later on in the life of the console: https://www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/complete-history-of-xbox-360-dashboard-updates-latest-2-0-17489-0.1457918/ https://www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/complete-history-of... - 2.0.9199.0 — April 6, 2010 — Allows up to two USB flash drives or external hard drives to be used for storing profiles, game saves, demos and more up to 16 GB each, 32GB combined. - 2.0.16197.0 — October 16, 2012 — Added support for up to 32GB USB drives. - 2.0.17349.0 — April 30, 2015 — Added: Able to use USB Storage up to 2TB for Xbox Content. There was also the "Hard Drive Transfer Kit" SATA–USB adapter that became available alongside the 120GB HDD: https://www.engadget.com/2007-04-26-xbox-360-hard-drive-transfer-kit-hands-on.html https://www.engadget.com/2007-04-26-xbox-360-hard-drive-tran...
Graziano_M 4y ago
It's possible that the adapter MITM'd requests for this security sector and would return a valid blob.
xen2xen1 4y ago
There was the USB official setup later, but you could also find a hard drive of the same model and flash firmware from a 360 drive onto it. So yes, but not just any drive.
- easton 4y ago
  I did this, I remember there being some fairly common laptop hard drive on the list because I found it laying around at home. There was a live cd to boot off of to format it and everything. Memories...
fredoralive 4y ago
You might be thinking of the PlayStation 3 / 4, they do use standard 2.5” drives without artificial lockouts.

scintill76 4y ago

It seems to me they could MITM the SATA link and effectively do the "HDDHackr" method to make that work. I don't know though.

Lammy 4y ago

That was possible over USB later on in the life of the console: https://www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/complete-history-of-xbox-360-dashboard-updates-latest-2-0-17489-0.1457918/ https://www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/complete-history-of... - 2.0.9199.0 — April 6, 2010 — Allows up to two USB flash drives or external hard drives to be used for storing profiles, game saves, demos and more up to 16 GB each, 32GB combined. - 2.0.16197.0 — October 16, 2012 — Added support for up to 32GB USB drives. - 2.0.17349.0 — April 30, 2015 — Added: Able to use USB Storage up to 2TB for Xbox Content. There was also the "Hard Drive Transfer Kit" SATA–USB adapter that became available alongside the 120GB HDD: https://www.engadget.com/2007-04-26-xbox-360-hard-drive-transfer-kit-hands-on.html https://www.engadget.com/2007-04-26-xbox-360-hard-drive-tran...

Graziano_M 4y ago

It's possible that the adapter MITM'd requests for this security sector and would return a valid blob.

xen2xen1 4y ago

There was the USB official setup later, but you could also find a hard drive of the same model and flash firmware from a 360 drive onto it. So yes, but not just any drive.

easton 4y ago
I did this, I remember there being some fairly common laptop hard drive on the list because I found it laying around at home. There was a live cd to boot off of to format it and everything. Memories...

fredoralive 4y ago

You might be thinking of the PlayStation 3 / 4, they do use standard 2.5” drives without artificial lockouts.