16TB in an OG Xbox? CERBIOS has arrived.

EDIT Nov 21, 2022: Cerbios v2.1.0 was released today with support for v1.6 motherboards. There have also been many developments over the past months including UDMA5 support for supported SATA adapters. Be sure to get in touch with the Cerbios team on Discord to say hello and get the most up-to-date info: discord.gg/VcdSfajQGK Original comment: As mentioned in the outro, I'll revisit this pinned comment for the next couple of months to address recurring questions that may arise about this project or my experience with Cerbios. Regarding the Aladdin Modchip: there are reports that some newer Aladdin XTs are only flashable using a programmer and will fail when flashed in the Xbox. I have not experienced this yet on any of my recent Aladdin XTs despite receiving the same ones that some folks have reported trouble with (49LF020A). Your mileage may vary so best to be prepared for a potential unsuccessful flash by picking up a spare Aladdin XT or just buying a better modchip altogether. I always flash using Resctoox v6.0 as I demonstrate in this video and have not had any problems (yet). Feel free to share your experience with this as I'm sure it will be helpful for folks trying this mod. I don't recommend trying Cerbios without a modchip (i.e. TSOP) if you're a beginner. Fixing a bricked TSOP wouldn't be fun. Swapping a $10 modchip is a piece of cake. HDD Cluster Size: I chose a HDD cluster size of 512K, even though 2-4TB drives can use 256K clusters and save lots of space when copying small files. The problem with 256K clusters is the directory limit of 4096 files per folder. This sounds like a lot, but many (uncompressed) games have 6000+ files of artwork or sound in sub folders. You won't have this problem when using XISOs. Unfortunately my game collection is extracted from archives and I have little desire to recollect ISOs of all my games. The only downside to 512K clusters is wasted space (1.6TB collection on PC took 2.5TB of space on Xbox). This is acceptable to me because storage is cheap and I just want all my games on one Xbox. Do you have an ISO collection? Hit me up! ;)

I was lucky as a kid, My dad bought an xbox and had his friend mod it for me. So many memories playing splitscreen with friends and endless hours playing single player games. The good days of going to a movie rental place, Renting a game then downloading it to the console, It had every SN/Gamecube game as well. I still have it and sometimes start it up for nostalgia. I think my dad realized he had made a mistake when he woke up the following morning to find me still in the living room playing SSX 3 and fuzion frenzy, It was the first all nighter I had ever pulled and can still remember the pure excitement I had when exploring every new game for the first time.

I’m so jealous of this work station. All the space in the world with no clutter. No worry of tagging my desoldering iron cable in my soldering iron

I don't even have a full TB on my Xbox series x

Tip for the heat sinks, use a hairdryer to warm them up and loosen the thermal adhesive

This takes me back, although I never modded my own Xbox, all my friends wanted their Xbox is modded and as the only person they knew who could solder I ended up installing mod chips in their xboxes, typically in exchange for a tank of gas and a pizza.

Lovely build my dude! Been working on a 4tb myself for weeks now :D For XBMC4Gamers, I'd recommend looking for the "Fast Game Parsing" option in the settings. Once you tick that on the xbox wont have to scan the games at all anymore and everything will just been good to go once you boot / reset the xbox.

This was so unbelievably neat and well planned out. Easily the tidiest modding job I've ever seen. And all the game covers, maaaan.

Love it! Love the detail you put into this project. How awesome is that to have almost a thousand games at your disposal.

This man really put efforts in his fixing, next level stuff! He really cares about what he do and that love really shows. Great video man! Keep up the good work! Quality is perfect as usual!

This video brought back a lot of memories for me. A little under twenty years ago I was heavily involved in Xbox modding and repair. I would pick up units cheap from pawn shops that had bad laser lenses in them, replace the lens (can you even get those anymore?), and sell or mod them for my personal use. A couple of things I recall about refurbing them is to always pull the power supply and resolder the pins where the power cord goes in. There were so many failures due to the solder joints on the pins cracking that Microsoft sent out free power cords with GFI breakers in them to keep from burning down people's houses. Also as far as temps go I have never encountered the need to redo the thermal paste. I've got a couple of boxes still plugged into our TVs that I've used as media centers for over fifteen years with no problems. I will also mention that the main reason the fans on the 1.0 boxes get noisy is because they are sleeve bearing units. The bearing just wallows out and the fan shaft vibrates. I think on those I just got heat sinks from the 1.6 boxes and swapped them out. Also I found that putting too much lubricant on the gears in the DVD drive actually collected dust over time and caused more problems than dry gears (dust sticks to that lube and the extra gunk would tend to wear the drive belts out). All in all a very good video. It's amazing how much easier the installers have gotten from those days. I kept quite a few large 7200 RPM IDE drives just for these boxes (we don't have a lot of games) but I did tinker with a SATA to IDE adapter one time. I put a 120 gig SSD in there for kicks. It was wicked fast in the menus and loading games. Again I enjoyed the video and the links. I might pull one of the old units off the shelf (I still have several original Xboxes and PS2s left from those days) and try out some of these new tools.

For the heatsinks you can turn on the console for a few seconds and let the chips heat up and that makes it easier to take them off.

Great build from start to finish, both in terms of hardware and then the software and nice to see the final reward at the end. Great work!

Your work is so clean. I'm new to this level of project having only done soft mods. I would love to see a video or video series on all the soldering tools you use and instructions on how to get such great results.

I love how he has the same TV that I have, so the intro comes in a second late just like me.

It was definitely sent back for official service. My original Xbox 1.0 system had to have some work done on it by Microsoft as an official recall. It had the same small square sticker and double sticker over the bottom screws.

Making it look easy as always. Really nice clean job. Congratulations on getting yourself such a nice XBOX.

I really love this channel I can tell from watching the videos that he has a real passion for what he's doing. And that's what keeps me coming back for more...Great job sir

Amazing job going through each part with attention to detain, a true perfectionist. This kind of makes me want to build one with a full NTSC game library and an HD video mod to top it off and it would make an amazing complete build.

Just found the channel and subscribed. Already have a 3tb drive. Now I'm highly tempted to mod my og Xbox. All original with the white drive in it. Just opened while watching to see how clean it was. Now I've gotten the modding itch. Thankfully I enjoy working on electronics and PCs.