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[Nubbs]

Wow this is great news.

[Boddah]

Bleh, I'd rather install an external SATA port myself...just don't like having that big buldge on the front of the box.

Still a nice product, though.

[rrg]

What about covering some of the air holes that are in front of the hdd. I don't like that idea one bit.

Be sure to take some temps before and after the install.

Other than that it looks good and very OEM.

[signal-to-noise-ratio]

"When switching from one I/O controller to the other, a Serial ATA link must be reinitialized with out-of-band (OOB) signals, which are transferred through the Serial ATA multiplexer transparently."

Nice. So the multiplexer's bandwidth is 3.0Gbps or higher and it has automatic failover?

[Roupus]

For those who asked what it was, it allows you to flash your firmware without ever having to open up your 360 again.  Pretty cool stuff, well worth it.

[The Zep Man]

Very nice, Team Xecuter. You have done a very good job at modding the hell out of the DVD-ROM drive of the Xbox 360. Now, when are you going to start to mod the Xbox 360 itself?

[Niteman1969]

My friend has flashed his samsung 6 times already - xtreme 3.3 ,4.1 ,4.2 ,then 5.0, 5.1 and finally 5.2
and its a pain in the ass having to disassemble the damn thing every time a new firmware comes out.

True if you have a hitachi drive you only need to flash it once seeing as other than slightly better
media detection by maximus and firmware stealthing,  nothing much has seemed to change in
GaryOPA's firmware since the 2.1 version and the last release 2.3 v 2 was quite a while back.

It still does not use stealth media features,  does not run single layer (xbox1) dvd's,
has no variable speed firmware, no disc lock-on, no open tray fixes, no firm-guard
(although it does have some kind of stealthy option) whereas every samsung firmware
adds something new to the mix.

People with PC DVD drives that have Kreons firmware will probably only ever use this
device for flashing their 360, in which case it's a lifesaver for samsungs but for
Hitachi's its a waste of money.

On the other hand it is useful for both hitachi and samsung drive owners
for ripping original games to the PC if they haven't got a PC DVD drive that
has Kreons firmware on it. Otherwise they would have to disassemble the 360
 each time they get a new original game.

[X-Staff]

QUOTE(The Zep Man @ Feb 2 2007, 11:13 PM)

Very nice, Team Xecuter. You have done a very good job at modding the hell out of the DVD-ROM drive of the Xbox 360. Now, when are you going to start to mod the Xbox 360 itself?

In all honesty that area of dev has been pretty stagnent - until last week. I'm proud to say a discovery was made by a freind of ours (and the scenes) but not by any one of our (Xecuters) pretty cool stuff. You should know where to look.

that boy needs some sleep

[Poida^]

QUOTE(X-Staff @ Feb 3 2007, 02:35 PM)

In all honesty that area of dev has been pretty stagnent - until last week. I'm proud to say a discovery was made by a freind of ours (and the scenes) but not by any one of our (Xecuters) pretty cool stuff. You should know where to look.

that boy needs some sleep

Cool.  Is this TS's HDD hack or something else?

[phrozenfeonix]

Ermm. Is that an FCC ribbon cable? after all the fiasco from the x2 series LPT flashing, they haven't learned? grrr I hate those. and as for the 2x2 headers, looks like we may end up with people inserting them in the wrong order possibly, or maybe I'm just assuming, as there isn't a clear shot of how they connect? Maybe it's just me.

And about the 360 hacking, I'm fairly certain they're referring to the NAND reading that's been going on, for the 16mb (2MB) chip, that stores the southbridge instructions. Fairly similar to the tsop if I'm not mistaken?

[dreamboat10]

Would this be any good to workaround a ms28 drive not seen in dos using via6421a chipset on a pci card???.

If so then count me in.....good work either way.

[phrozenfeonix]

well i understood those pictures both clear enough, i was referring to the outside of the shielding, then i looked at the other pic (the one with the fcc ribbon   ) and saw how they lined up.

===== . . . . . pcb
-------|--------- shielding
.  .  . ====== pcb

It was 4am and i guess i didn't see the third picture  

Anotther concern is right here: The case, is it supposed to look like that when it's all done? doesn't look like it's lining up quite proper.

[keystroke]

I'm far from impressed with Xecuter this time around, they release products that are pretty much useless, because anyone with a chopstick and a torx screwdriver can open their console in under 5 minutes so whats the big deal?

Xecuter can't crack the 360, so they need more beer money so they are pushing this crap out of a nasty Taiwanese slave-labour factory.

if a company makes 5 great products, then 100 crap ones, you fanboys would still be praising them.

[X-Staff]

Hate-Boys are far more retarded than Fan-Boys

you dont like it dont buy it - let people make their own minds up instead of bitching like school kids.

[iza]

i would pay the 70 bucks if all i have to do is connect the wires once, and then be able to take the flasher on and off really easily... I havent flashed my 360 yet, and want to do so.. i dont know which drive i have, so i will have to look into that once i get home. if i have the only that constantly gets updates, i'll buy this. if i have the one that never gets updated, i'll just get my friend to flash it for me..