i know someone put one in, but you need an ide to sata converter to connect the sata hd to your ide cable. the only problem you might have is the position of the connector on the ide cable and the connector of the harddrive's sata connector (you have to fiddle around with the cable to get it to fit. purely for this reason, just buy a ide drive. no hassle, and it physically fits perfectly. both ide and sata are the same price, and you do not need to buy a converter. i'm not sure if cache size matters, but the drives that i had (0,5 mb cach to 8 mb cache) where all the same speed when copying (ftp) files over. on average around 9000-11000 kb per second.
I usually buy the multimedia drives with the 16mb cache. It does make a difference loading games and watching movies. Even when you turn on the xbox and it has to build the games list, it will take a lot less time if you buy a multimedia drive.
Originally posted by dennisv9: i know someone put one in, but you need an ide to sata converter to connect the sata hd to your ide cable. the only problem you might have is the position of the connector on the ide cable and the connector of the harddrive's sata connector (you have to fiddle around with the cable to get it to fit. purely for this reason, just buy a ide drive. no hassle, and it physically fits perfectly. both ide and sata are the same price, and you do not need to buy a converter. i'm not sure if cache size matters, but the drives that i had (0,5 mb cach to 8 mb cache) where all the same speed when copying (ftp) files over. on average around 9000-11000 kb per second.
for some unknow reason in new zealand it is cheaper to buy sata than ide? go figure! lol
SATA are cheaper in the UK aswell, anyways I put a 500GB SATA in ours at the weekend and it worked great! When the next adaptor arrives I'm putting a 750GB in mine.
