xbox-live archive server ?

[zappenduster]

i just read on engadget.com about there visite at the xbox headquarters and there i found this picture which i cant really sort in

does anyone have pictures of machines similar to those cause i cant even recognize what are they ?



description:

... and if there are any problems, they have a library of every Xbox game every published ready for testing. We tried making off with a couple bins but we were wearing our tight jeans that day

so are these data servers and they just type in a code lets say 1337 for halo and this unit loads it (via hdd or network) ?

[Borman]

I thought those were the case with all of the Xbox titles released, with this as the servers
http://img.engadget.com/common/image...01060892969111

Edit: You edited heh. But yea, i think those just have DVDs in them.

Edit again: You can see the DVDs laying in front on the table.

[kingofthelobster]

From the looks of it those machines stacked on top of each other are just dvd changers. I've never seen this particular unit before, but there are a couple companies that make carousel dvd changers for computers (Check out http://www.powerfile.com under 'Products'>'DVD Libraries' for an example of what I'm talking about). They probably have discs for all the Xbox games in a bunch of those type machines and then can just pull up whatever game they want when needed.

[zappenduster]

carusell changers didnt thougt of that its like anciant technology or at least expensive and troublesome with all that mechanic in there

but on the other site its a xbox with dvd carusell and i want one for xmas =)

@borman yeah its the same picture but i couldnt link it properly so i put it on my own space

[hl718]

Those are just standard CD/DVD storage units. You punch up the number of the disc you want and it pops out.

-hl718

[Sally]

Those are just standard CD/DVD storage units. You punch up the number of the disc you want and it pops out.

-hl718

Lol, what he said. They can't actually be disk changers, as there's no way to hook one up to an xbox. That's basicly an expensive filecabinet. It's better than the way they used to store them, on a bunch of spindles. Try finding the one disk you're looking for like that. :banghead:

Huh, just thought of something... what would it take to set up a Dev kit with the raptor attached and set it up with the complete xbox library. Wouldn't be too hard, except for the hard drive space. Huh, a side project perhaps?

*Note, such a device does not actually exsist... yet.

[sobman]

i could do that with some bondo overnight :)

[zappenduster]

Lol, what he said. They can't actually be disk changers, as there's no way to hook one up to an xbox. That's basicly an expensive filecabinet. It's better than the way they used to store them, on a bunch of spindles. Try finding the one disk you're looking for like that. :banghead:

Huh, just thought of something... what would it take to set up a Dev kit with the raptor attached and set it up with the complete xbox library. Wouldn't be too hard, except for the hard drive space. Huh, a side project perhaps?

*Note, such a device does not actually exsist... yet.

sounds plausible but since its ms headquarter for xbox why shouldnt they have some special hardware :crying:



someone on engadget posted it
Each CD Carousel Plus stores up to 150 discs--daisy-chain up to 127 units together to store nearly 20,000 discs!

so there is place for nearly 3000games in there not bad =)

[atomiX]

Huh, just thought of something... what would it take to set up a Dev kit with the raptor attached and set it up with the complete xbox library. Wouldn't be too hard, except for the hard drive space. Huh, a side project perhaps?

*Note, such a device does not actually exsist... yet.

I've already ripped my game disks to my file server for this purpose. Too bad I don't have a SCSI cable yet to connect my raptor.

[hl718]

Eh, what's the point? Just drop a nice hard drive in a mod box if you really want to do that.

1) Cheaper than a dev kit
2) Running from HD is *faster* than running via Raptor emulation.

It's really only something to do, just to say "I've done it." ;)

-hl718

[Sally]

It's really only something to do, just to say "I've done it." ;)

Well, i think you've hit the nail on the head right there. Lol. But also, i don't think i can get a single hard drive that will hold the entire xbox library anyway... should be bigger than a terabyte i think. A project for a rainy day, because it's really just a waste of a perfectly good dev kit.

[atomiX]

Exactly. I'm doing this just for fun.

[TheLamer]

Well, i think you've hit the nail on the head right there. Lol. But also, i don't think i can get a single hard drive that will hold the entire xbox library anyway... should be bigger than a terabyte i think. A project for a rainy day, because it's really just a waste of a perfectly good dev kit.

What about using some kind of hardware independant Raid Array to stack all the drives up you want and get your terabyte (or two) .

It's Raid 1 though and we need zero for the application

This is all I could come up with googleing but this thread honestly made me think about it . So I searched the Scene too and no one has even discussed this much less tried it .

Building an xbox that could function like a normal box without stupid hard drive switches would be all kinds of badass . Anyone know where you can pick up an independant internal Raid 0 device ?????

[zappenduster]

if you just think xboxlive archive was 3000dvd and you take in 4.7gig per game (which is way over the line) you should come up with a 14 terrabyte array

[TheLamer]

if you just think xboxlive archive was 3000dvd and you take in 4.7gig per game (which is way over the line) you should come up with a 14 terrabyte array

Considering that my 250 gig hard drive has 112 xbox games I would say that a terabyte would probally fit all the games that were worth having . Shit at 112 I still have more than I need .

Allthough we are talking about archiving all of them so you have to take into account that most xbox games are sub 2 gigs and sometimes under 1 gig . I would call out that 2 terabytes should take care of almost all games , I think their is only 1100 ntsc games anyway .