Watch 1500 Xbox Hard Drives Fall Down Like Dominoes

Kotaku Writes "It would appear that the Xbox modding business was a lucrative one, as the subject of this particular clip-thank you, Danny-seems to have quite the mortgage. There's not much to add to 1,500 original Xbox hard drives falling down in succession, but we certainly don't recommend disposing of yours in a nearby pond. Think of the Fishes!"

[Bonsai1214]

watching that video made me slighly nauseous. poor camera work.. still, a good way to waste a lazy saturday afternoon.

[gamesR4fun]

shoulda sold em all on ebay 20 bucks a pop they might just sell....

edit doh just old xbox hd's not 360 pretty worthless.

[mikeslemonade]

Not news worthy. No one cares about the xbox or gamecube. PS2, PS3, PSP, 360, Wii, DS, and PC only dammit!

[sh1thead]

wow

[f7ss1]

have a sense of humor mikeslemonade, it was pretty funny

[wageslave]

While it is an interesting project, the reason its cut (edited) that way (IMHO) is because it wasnt one take, but many set-ups and knock downs put together.

Otherwise, someone would *want* to show that it was a single run, doing so by having a "single take".

[rofldings]

Wageslave, why aren't you making your usual rounds of reporting this article and "lame" and such for not being news?

Is it because it has the word "xbox" in the title?

[bozobucketeer]

He didn't report it cuz your bio pic is sexsi.

[Tut]

Or they had multiple camera men bridging the room transitions. =)

[WilliamRLBaker]

I mean its cheap to build or get an drive enclosure for up to 8 hard drives he'd have 1.5 tbs of data!!! or recycle the damn things atleast.

[rofldings]

The cost of powering up that many drives wouldn't be cost effective, not to mention a headache maintaining, it would be cheaper just to buy larger capacity drives and make a raid.

Hopefully, he did recycle those, after he was done playing with them.

Kinda gay that he dropped some in the pond/lake/river/whatever.

[WilliamRLBaker]

An HDD does not take up much power in an PC's power needs and these would just be enclosures it would be easy to build a common server farm hdd enclosure that could house 8 or more hard drives for less power then an current graphics card requires.

[rofldings]

Yes, that'd be fine for 8 drives, but 1,500 would require a lot of space, power, cost of purchasing RAID boxes/electricity/cooling, and would produce a lot of heat.

I can understand doing this if you're going to reach a very large amount of storage, but 1,500 10gb hdds? It's a waste. You can just buy 1.5tb external hd for about $350-400

[Lumbo]

I do see a difference in using 3 modern 500gig drives at 8W each = 24W instead of 1500 old 12W HDDs = 18KW

18KW to power a meager 1.5TB? seems you went over the edge into insanity... Normal houses use less than half of that in TOTAL including cooking and heating.

[WilliamRLBaker]

all drives on the market today and past can be put into a power saving mode for basic throughput actions read and write only, 8 or more hard drives can suck up a lil less power then an current gen graphics card.

how do u think server farms have done it over the years? by having those hard drives running at full power? some server farm servers can contain up to 20 hard drives.

IT would be easy to make a drive enclosure for up to atleast 20 hard drives and us a simple 400 watt powersupply.
thats 200 gigs right there and you could probably build it for about 30 bux neither of you know a thing about computers.

you prove that more then most lumbo by using RETARD logic he could build a enclosure for 30 bux and put together an 200 gig enclosure sell it for 100 bux gaining alot of profit and the enclosure would take less power then most 400 watt powered computers, I never said he was gonna run all the drives him self.

[Hydrollex]

In this case, Xbox 360 > PS3. I might buy a 360 for playing dominos

[Lumbo]

Xbox, not Xbox360

[BaMYouRDeaD]

That's impressive....

[BLUR111]

i like to take all ur lame comments and play dominos with... it be plenty

[niall77]

its the origonal xbox HDD... they had to take out the domino mode from the 360 since the darn thing kepth catching fire.

[Mr_Kuwabara]

Wow now that was some crazy stuff.

[Bill Gates]

I don't know, that seemed like alot more than 1500 HDDs to me.

Xbox >> 360

[Armyless]

where's the furniture?

If I was one of the friends that help set that up, I'd make sure I had a quick excuse to leave when it came time to clean up.

[ForTheFallen]

Well nice idea regardless of console or whatever.
Very cool; enjoyed it.

[JasonXE]

i was excepting fireworks at the end.

[Daver]

it was fun to watch loll

[heroman711]

wow thats cool

[happyskills]

that seemed like a lot more than 1,500. Still cool though.

[JasonSuave]

I slowed it down, and counted about 50 drives falling every 3 seconds. That would put the total hard drives at around 7,000 for the whole video (not 1,500). If there were only 1,500, they must've did like 4 or 5 different setups and strung the videos together.

[Rice]

THat was a amusing, i bet you he had a fun time picking all that up...

[Staircase]

WOW... just... wow...

[Matsuiichi]

Witness the fall of the Xbox and its tyrannical...

Oh...
Wait, what did you say...It already happened!?

WHAT!? HOW LONG AGO?!?
THEY HAVE A 360 AND EVERYTHING!?

Haha, nice. At least when Microsoft cut off support for Xbox, the system HDDs were being used for something. Power to the players! And domino enthusiasts, apparently. :P

[360Crusader]

Okay....and what exactly make's this news?

[Armyless]

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[Robearboy]

Not all news has to be flame wars or reviews, enjoy :)

[cRaZyLeGs 93]

That was pretty cool.

[Shankle]

I can't wait to do this kind of stuff in littlebigplanet :D

[JeepGamer]

It's a good thing we're not watching a video of hard drives removed from RROD'd 360s, or this video would be a mini series of epic proportions.

[SilPho]

That just made my morning. It may not be "news" in the strictest sense, but I'm really glad to see it on here.

[vin_andy]

Passing Time with such stuff have become common nowadays ;)

[Yoma]

It would be funnier if there was a 360 at the end who got dropped in the water :(

[nemey]

cOoOoOoOoOoOoOol

[Vip3r]

Where did they get all those HDDs from and the patience to set it all up?

[ZombiesNJ]

1. They have too much time on their hands...but it was awesome to watch.
2. i hope they got those out of the water...

[Madbrain]

...

[Subclavian]

did you noticed that the camera`s angle keep changing ?

either he have 1500 hard drives with 5 cameras ... or he just have a few, and keeps re-arranging them after each shot !!

[jkoz]

Agreed. But he still had a crapload

[lucifer___]

that video is a metaphor to the company M.S itself

[ROCCOZILLA]

lol

[monkey602]

That was cool!

[VigorousApathy]

2 years from now they can do a sequel with X-Box 360 hard drives. Then turn it into a series and release a new one every 3 years.

[SilPho]

Or just set the same ones up again in new shapes, maybe spray some of them with green paint and arrange them to be like the X-Box logo. (Or red paint and make a RRoD).

[wallace1000]

Thats cool, i thought it was going to be over half way through but they just kept going!

[GodsHand]

I dont think your could use those harddrives for normal use, because they are locked.

On the other hand I would of taken those things apart for the magnets they have inside, powerful little suckers inside the drives. On the plus side you get some really cool chrome finish disks.

[heyheyhey]

that wasn't news, but i don't care- that was cool

so thats 5 years modding xbox and 1 year setting up a domino game with the hard drive- i like this guys logic

[welsh_rocker]

That video was cool but I think I should have used that 2 mins to do something else.

[djroberts]

Wow, free time I guess.

[TwissT]

*Waits till all the hard drives fall* OPA!

[LJWooly]

That was really cool. Must have taken ages though.

[djt23]

that alot of HD
wow

[HardcoreGamer]

its not meant as gaming news, but what intersted me is why they have all these hard drives?

[PMR_21]

nerds

[Nodoze]

So what was the going rate for modding Xbox's? If we say 50 bux a pop, and consider the 1500 as a benchmark, that equates to roughly 75 GRAND! Not near enough to finance the house the vid was shot in, but still a nice amount of coin for weekend work.