The 360Sata drive adapter

If you're like us you probably snagged Xplorer360 and didn't realize what the hell to do with it until it dawned on you: yeah, you're supposed to hook your hard drive directly to your PC if you want to do the fun stuff like backing up games, exploring the file system, etc. But for some tearing open their pretty shiny new gear isn't the most appealing proposition: enter the 360Sata adapter, an adapter that does what it sounds like, adapt your 360 drive unit to SATA so you can plug right into your PC. Unfortunately they're all sold out at the time of this writing, so get your name on the backorder list (they were asking $15 for the first round of parts) to get yours as soon as it's back in production. Happy hacking, ladies and gents.

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[hecatomb @ Mar 30th 2006 10:47AM]

Got mine last week... haven't have a chance to use it yet though. Seems to be a very professional part, not sloppy at all...

Now I just have to clear up 20 gig to back the drive up...

[Joe @ Mar 30th 2006 11:06AM]

Wow, way to be on top of this editor, this only came out...a looong time ago. Besides that, when it was first posted on hackaday.com, there was also a link to the schematic so you could avoid the wait and just make your own.

[Artie @ Mar 30th 2006 11:13AM]

I think you mean to say "it dawned on you". Not to be picky...

[Letts @ Mar 30th 2006 12:04PM]

Thank you, Artie. Spelling dawned as "donned" is unacceptable, and it is hoped that the writer will learn from your comments.

[hecatomb @ Mar 30th 2006 12:12PM]

@ Exotic

Well, I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, but I've at least done some reading... Its suggested that you need to back up an "image" of the WHOLE drive, so you need 20 gig free...

Xplorer360 is still in beta, so I'd say there is the possibility that there are some bugs, but without me actually trying yet, I can't say.

I just went this avenue because tearing apart the drive assembly just looked scary ^_^... http://www.360gamesaves.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=5

And hell, it's only $15.

[hecatomb @ Mar 30th 2006 12:18PM]

I forgot to add, it is said that the Serial to USB adapter listed at http://www.360gamesaves.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=5 (bottom of page) will work fine with this part...

[Tsunamii @ Mar 30th 2006 12:53PM]

"Its suggested that you need to back up an "image" of the WHOLE drive, so you need 20 gig free..."
Nope, you will only need what space you have taken up on that 20 gig drive and that is without compression. If you have ever ghosted a drive say a 20 gig drive and you are only taking up say 10 gigs out of that 20, you do not need 20 gigs of free space to create an image. With compression it will still be below the 10g.

[j @ Mar 30th 2006 1:00PM]

my time warner dvr has a SATA plug... could they come up with something similar so that i can copy my shows to my mac.....

[JonTart @ Mar 30th 2006 2:17PM]

All we need now is someone to make one of these the other way round, ie: Any SATA drive plugged into the 360, now that we would be nice.

[ChronoZaga @ Mar 30th 2006 2:20PM]

Xplorer260 work great, even though it's beta, and the SATA Xbox360 HDD reads and writes as fast as any other SATA laptop drive.

The Xbox360 HDD is not encrypted, it just has a file system that Windows XP doesn't understand.

[Aaron @ Mar 30th 2006 5:27PM]

Hey, I was wondering if anybody can help me out with this. I'm going to be opening a store with a game lounge type deal. Is it possible to connect say 12 360's to a large hard drive that has games stored on it for access by all systems?

[Malia @ Mar 30th 2006 5:50PM]

Nice rug, I want one!!

[lawson @ Mar 31st 2006 7:00AM]

Didn't get chance to use it yet though.

[lawson @ Mar 31st 2006 7:11AM]

Is it the way you want it?