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Thursday, July 20, 2006

External 360 drive finished

After the thoughts I had earlier I deceided to build the external DVD-drive for the 360. However I didn't use the case I was planning on earlier. Since I couldn't use much of the components and had to cut the legs of the drive to fit in the housing I deceided to build the thing from scratch. So here's the result:



As you can see from the picture above the drive get's its own power. This means the drive can be hooked up to a notebook without the need to get power from the 360. In that case you have to use an USB<->SATA cable as discussed earlier.

Near the power-socket is the on/off switch. At the front you can see a red led (not burning in the picture) to indicate the on/off-state of the drive. Next to the led is the eject-switch. Here's another picture, this time from the front:


And yet antoher one from the top, this time with open drive:


Note the drive itself is totally unaltered. Meaning I can just unscrew it from the board it is placed on right now and put it back in the 360. If you're wondering how I would hook this up to a 360 please read my first post on that subject. Also note I'm using a USB<->SATA adapter to hook the drive up to my PC.

The power-adapter board is heavily based on the "PC power supply to 360 DVD power connector adapter" as described by Kevin East aka SeventhSon.

Another project finished :)

6 Comments:

  • Nicely done, good job. :)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Friday, July 21, 2006  

  • nice one. but i have to say! its kinda shit looking!!!!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Saturday, August 19, 2006  

  • I would really like to know how you did the eject button. Any chance of a tutorial on this? Or maybe a kit?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Thursday, August 24, 2006  

  • The button looks like it still is on the xbox 360 from the pic (as it is missing)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Monday, September 11, 2006  

  • Why not just use ATX SATA Power to a male header for the stock dvd power cable ????

    Why go through the trouble of getting voltage regulator(s) and caps, then making a board for it all ?

    You even already made the male header for the dvd cable....

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Thursday, May 24, 2007  

  • Who knows where to download XRumer 5.0 Palladium?
    Help, please. All recommend this program to effectively advertise on the Internet, this is the best program!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Friday, November 20, 2009  

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