The only difference between a ms hdd and a normal sata drive is the firmware, all the FW does is tell the xbox that it is a xbox hdd and how big the partition should be. MS don't seem to care if you use 3rd party hdds. I have a fake 20GB 360 phat hdd the sticker on the bottom says 120gb with the...
do a heat gun reflow at 350C on the gpu and ram only heat the ram for 10~15 sec to avoid cooking them and heat the gpu for 20 sec. Preheat the board before moving in to reflow the chips and use NO-Clean flux, also when you have finished dont just cut the heat off, hold the heatgun about 1ft...
you an use a usb and hdmi extender they have built in boosters: HDMI into booster -> cat5e cable (through the wall ect) into second box -> second box has female hdmi -> connect to xbox.
You can get the same thing for usb.
Hope this helps
It's not the movies or games downloads that I would worry about, like breaking into networks, downloading encrypted things, spying on network traffic. I have seen so many "Top Secret" seals on files when I was a kid
I was obsessed with finding UFOs, a surprising amount of US files where stashed on computers in other countries, China back in the early 90s omg sooo much