Do You Have A Quiet Drive Xbox 360?

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by Peter Ha on February 14, 2007

new quieter DVD drives coming to Xbox 360s and the boys at Xbox-Scene tell us what drives we have in our obnoxiously loud consoles. In case you missed it, all Xbox 360s manufactured after November of 2006 are equipped with drives from BenQ-LiteON-Phillips. Be sure you didn’t get screwed if you recently purchased a 360.

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kasei - February 15th, 2007 at 11:31 am GMT+5

Sweet! The repair center sent me a new unit made 12-26-2006. It is much quieter than the one that broke. I can’t be sure since the first one I had only lasted 4 days!

kristen - February 17th, 2007 at 1:58 pm GMT+5

BE WARNED! I returned my amazon xbox, manufactured in September 2006, for a ebgames xbox, manufactured in December 2006, as I thought surely it would contain the new BenQ drive. IT DID NOT! A TOSHIBA-SAMSUNG DRIVE MOCKED MY CROSS-TOWN QUEST! Wait a while for the stock to turn over…

CB - February 23rd, 2007 at 12:35 pm GMT+5

WARNING: Just bought one manufactured 26/11/2006 and it has the old Hitachi drive will be returning this monster for a different one!!!

Peter Ha - February 23rd, 2007 at 12:49 pm GMT+5

Ya my roommates has the Toshiba-Samsung drive and he bought it a month or so ago. Real bummer, but I live in NYC and it’s barely audible.

Foo - March 15th, 2007 at 2:44 pm GMT+5

I concur, sent my 360 in as it died, mfg on new one they shipped out Dec 08/06 and it also has a Toshiba-Samsung drive and its louder than a freakin 747 taking off… Was really hoping for a BENQ drive in there.

xbox modder - March 19th, 2007 at 7:50 pm GMT+5

you should keep the hitachi drive (old drive) you can flash firmware these and the samsung (2nd gen) only to play backup games (burnt dvd’s). Only the newer drives does not do this making the older drives more desirable~

Brad - March 30th, 2007 at 9:05 pm GMT+5

Just bought a core to replace a dead system. I was manufactured in 2/07. It has the Hitachi drive. I’m taking it back….

Brad - March 30th, 2007 at 9:07 pm GMT+5

Are the Benq drives noticeably quieter, or am I wasting my time?

Damn IT - May 20th, 2007 at 8:09 pm GMT+5

I bought a refurbished 360 at March 07. I got the Toshiba -.-

neil - May 28th, 2007 at 12:56 am GMT+5

I got the benqdrive
Shame i cant use any backups on it.
I was hoping for one of the older drives.
Sound is not an issue i crank it up anyway.
I would trade mine foer a Hitachi anyway.

a - May 28th, 2007 at 11:45 pm GMT+5

wich is the best drive?
please replay

haha - June 15th, 2007 at 2:11 pm GMT+5

damnit i sent mine it also to try to get the quiter one, they gave me the toshiba the first one. lol sux, not too bad though, but still damnit i wanted the benq i waited 2 weeks 4 nothin

Anonymous - July 25th, 2007 at 1:09 pm GMT+5

Mine is made in Feb 2007, it has the hitachi drive. It doesn’t matter because I’ve read the toshiba samsung drives that scratch discs. Sound isnt an issue for me.

Anonymous - January 1st, 2008 at 11:18 pm GMT+5

i want samsung to flash and hdmi and falcon man

mike - April 1st, 2008 at 3:26 pm GMT+5

Just got my drive replaced due to fault on the 26th march 08. i got the BenQ