Hacking Multiple internal harddrives (RGH/JTAG Xbox 360)

[DonMega]

Hey guys. I keep bumping into this 6TB or 8TB Xbox 360

I can't post links yet, so please take a look at the image.

This guy is actually selling such, but why would any of us buy when we've got a perfectly working system simply starving of harddrive space.

There are 3x 2TB internal harddrives, and with an external it can be 8TB.

Supposedly the Onboard memory unit can be replaced with a 2TB harddrive. Some sort of adapter, or soldering required?

It shows USB 0 and USB 1 in use, so I take it it'd be easier to simply have 2 external drives. That'd help, but only up to 6TB.

Does anyone actually have one of these systems, or could we figure it out?

I appreciate any help, and frankly I thought it'd be a hot topic, but with my Googlefu I can find no instruction whatsoever how this was accomplished!


PS. At least my current 2TB internal and 2TB external are quite full, as the whole library is 11TB and the system has tons of XBLA & DLC, not to mention the emulators... Transferring games is annoying and slow, so I'd rather keep them all ready.

 

[DinohScene]

There's a patch in the works that allows for 16 TB partitions.

 

[DonMega]

There's a patch in the works that allows for 16 TB partitions.

Sounds nice, and will certainly save money buying 1 big drive rather than 2TB ones. Although I'm more interested of what can be done right now. That patch requires NAND flashing, and a lot of work still left. A way to format such large drives in the required FATX format doesn't exist yet, so even a formatting tool needs to be implemented. Glad to know the 360 hacking scene is far from dead though.

 

[DinohScene]

Sounds nice, and will certainly save money buying 1 big drive rather than 2TB ones. Although I'm more interested of what can be done right now. That patch requires NAND flashing, and a lot of work still left. A way to format such large drives in the required FATX format doesn't exist yet, so even a formatting tool needs to be implemented. Glad to know the 360 hacking scene is far from dead though.

I've honestly not done a lot on with 360s for quite a while ;p
I guess it's just a matter of being patient.

it's certainly better then the endless paid mod menus that have been released..

 

[Deleted member 668561]

The onboard memory unit on 4gb Trinities is simply a USB flash drive, you can replace it with a normal usb port

 

[professor_jonny]

There were extra spare unused internal usb's I have used them my self for that purpose.

I fitted an extra usb to sata hdd with a hard wired adaptor to a trinity mem port for an extra 2tb of storage and I guess you could add more solderin an extra adaptor g to the external USB ports wihin the console.

My idea was to b live safe so when I run the stock nand homebrew software is hidden from the os as the port is disabled by the stock nand image and that was my main goal.

The trinity console is max 120w draw and has a 135w powersupply as they envisioned extra devices to be connected to the kinect/aux port in the back so it has a bit of overhead for an extra hdd or two.

Users have reported issues with Aurora with heaps of games across multiple harddirives but I have not had this issue my self so be cautious.

Eaton Zevare has a kernel patch in the works as above said by dinohscene for 16tb drive support, I an a beta tester for him and convinced him to add this for the original Xbox by simply increasing the cluster size to 128k, and it evolved to a major patch.