Hi all,
So I recently just RGH my Xbox 360 Slim and I've got it up and running with Aurora.
I'm trying to figure out the fastest way to copy games and content to my internal 250gb HDD. So far I've tried a few different methods but they've all been incredibly slow. As I'm running out of ideas I thought I would make a post and see how other people handle this situation.
FTP.
So the first method I tried was FTP. I have both my Xbox 360 and PC hooked up via ethernet to my router. I noticed Aurora has an inbuilt FTP service so I just went for that. I successfully connected to my Xbox 360 from my PC using Filezilla (I also tried Cyberduck which is another free FTP client). But the transfer speed was INCREDIBLY slow. I was only getting between 800kb/s - 1.5mb/s transfer speed. This means it would have taken around 30 minutes just to transfer ONE Xbox 360 game to the HDD. I could understand if I was using WiFi, but I wasn't, I was hooked up directly via ethernet. I'm pretty sure I even got faster speeds via FTP when in the past I hooked up my Original Xbox to transfer games/content over.
SATA USB 3.0 ADAPTER.
Next method I tried, I took out the internal HDD from my Xbox 360 and hooked it up to my PC directly using a SATA USB3.0 cable. I managed to successfully browse the HDD on my PC using Xplorer360. I then used the "Inject Folder" feature to copy over a 1gb folder to test. It's been 15 minutes (as I'm typing this) and the folder is STILL transferring over, incredibly its even slower than FTP. - Over the past month I've been transferring games to my PS2 HDD using an app called WinHiiP and I've been able to transfer over 3-4gb games in less than 1 minute using the exact same SATA USB3.0 adapter. Its blowing my mind that this 1gb file is STILL copying over.
USB THUMB DRIVE.
This is probably the fastest method I've tried so far but its also the most impractical. I've got a 14gb USB thumb drive and if I copy over 2-4 games (depending on their size) one by one to the drive, I can then put that drive into the USB drive of the Xbox 360 and copy them over using the Aurora file manager. However I find this incredibly tedious, going back and fourth.
So am I missing something here? Why does it seem so incredibly hard to copy/transfer games over to an internal Xbox 360 drive. As mentioned above I've spent the last 1-2 months fixing up my PS2 library and transferring games over to my internal HDD. I've been able to transfer bulk games in a matter of minutes.
EDIT: Just as I'm finishing up typing this post, the 1gb transfer on Xplorer360 finished and I can't even see it on the drive. So I have no clue what's happened there.
So I recently just RGH my Xbox 360 Slim and I've got it up and running with Aurora.
I'm trying to figure out the fastest way to copy games and content to my internal 250gb HDD. So far I've tried a few different methods but they've all been incredibly slow. As I'm running out of ideas I thought I would make a post and see how other people handle this situation.
FTP.
So the first method I tried was FTP. I have both my Xbox 360 and PC hooked up via ethernet to my router. I noticed Aurora has an inbuilt FTP service so I just went for that. I successfully connected to my Xbox 360 from my PC using Filezilla (I also tried Cyberduck which is another free FTP client). But the transfer speed was INCREDIBLY slow. I was only getting between 800kb/s - 1.5mb/s transfer speed. This means it would have taken around 30 minutes just to transfer ONE Xbox 360 game to the HDD. I could understand if I was using WiFi, but I wasn't, I was hooked up directly via ethernet. I'm pretty sure I even got faster speeds via FTP when in the past I hooked up my Original Xbox to transfer games/content over.
SATA USB 3.0 ADAPTER.
Next method I tried, I took out the internal HDD from my Xbox 360 and hooked it up to my PC directly using a SATA USB3.0 cable. I managed to successfully browse the HDD on my PC using Xplorer360. I then used the "Inject Folder" feature to copy over a 1gb folder to test. It's been 15 minutes (as I'm typing this) and the folder is STILL transferring over, incredibly its even slower than FTP. - Over the past month I've been transferring games to my PS2 HDD using an app called WinHiiP and I've been able to transfer over 3-4gb games in less than 1 minute using the exact same SATA USB3.0 adapter. Its blowing my mind that this 1gb file is STILL copying over.
USB THUMB DRIVE.
This is probably the fastest method I've tried so far but its also the most impractical. I've got a 14gb USB thumb drive and if I copy over 2-4 games (depending on their size) one by one to the drive, I can then put that drive into the USB drive of the Xbox 360 and copy them over using the Aurora file manager. However I find this incredibly tedious, going back and fourth.
So am I missing something here? Why does it seem so incredibly hard to copy/transfer games over to an internal Xbox 360 drive. As mentioned above I've spent the last 1-2 months fixing up my PS2 library and transferring games over to my internal HDD. I've been able to transfer bulk games in a matter of minutes.
EDIT: Just as I'm finishing up typing this post, the 1gb transfer on Xplorer360 finished and I can't even see it on the drive. So I have no clue what's happened there.
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