

The speed was drastically higher and I managed to Quick Erase one of them in just over 2.5 hours. Once I unlocked them using the program which I had locked them with originally (XboxHDM). Which is something that is required for them to correctly function with the Original Xbox BIOS. I realised there was a locked hard drive prompt, asking for a password for both hard drives.Īs I was messing around with these hard drives to use for my Xbox softmod. However, this time when I would enter the BIOS to boot from USB.

This led me to try to run the same thing on my newer Rysystem. My research showed that Throughput is normally somewhere above 100,000 KB/s and fluctuates between the 60,000 – 130,000 KB/s range, so it couldn’t be the software.

Initially I thought that perhaps this was either a program bottleneck or my system itself. As the Throughput would fluctuate even further down at times. Obviously this method would have taken me days if not a week. And it only progressed just over 3.0% on Quick Erase in 4.5 hours. Both hard drives would slow down to a point where the Throughput (which can be found on the right side of the DBAN interface) was below 2000 Kb/s. I first ran the program via a USB stick on my older Intel i7-4770 Processor system. I was wanting to wipe 2x 500GB SATA Hard Drives for my Original Xbox HD upgrade project. A Brief Background on Slow DBAN Performance
