When buying a brand new 360 how do you tell what type of dvd drive it has?

Discussion in 'Xbox 360 - Modding & Hacking' started by Sixxer, Aug 15, 2009.

  1. Sixxer

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    I wouldn't want to buy a brand new 360 and get stuck with a benq drive.
     
    Sixxer, Aug 15, 2009
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  2. NDarkness

    NDarkness Regular member

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    You mean you wouldn't want to be stuck with a Lite-On drive. BenQ are actually what you want for ease of modding.

    As far as I know all new 360s have the Lite-On drive. So if you don't want that then purchase a used 360.

    You can look through here to see the gist of when the lite-ons start appearing-

    http://www.360drives.com/list
     
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    That's funny.

    Tell you what. If you get "stuck" with a BenQ, I'll trade you one of my brand new Lite-On drives for it. I'll even flash the damn thing FOR you.

    "stuck with a BenQ" LOL
     
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    Why not? Great drives and easy to mod.
     
    leerage, Aug 15, 2009
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    Oh so currently Liteons can't be modded?

    What about Hitachi and Samsungs?
     
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  6. Sixxer

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    what I meant to say is, I wouldn't want to get stuck with a drive that's hard or impossible to mod. Does the Liteon fall into that category?
     
    Sixxer, Aug 16, 2009
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    All drives can be modded at this point in time. If you were to buy a 360 right now, you would most likely get the newest firmware revision of the Lite-On, which, luckily for you, does not require any additional hardware.
     
    deluxe247, Aug 16, 2009
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