Anyone bought an Xbox in the last few months

**fantom** · 26th January 2004

Has anyone bought an xbox in the last few months ?

If so did it have a Samsung drive, I read in another formum that most of the new Xbox's have samsung drives. Also where did you buy it from.

**Thrush** · 26th January 2004

I think it is pot luck... All the new machines might have samsung drives... but there is always a chance that they sell you an older machine.

**bigtrevster** · 26th January 2004

bought a new 1 recently wif samsung from index, i agree wif cueball but it depends how much stock is left over.if its a popular well knowen shop it should be a new version 5

**{{909}}** · 26th January 2004

it is pot luck, i bought 3 a month or so and they all had samsungs in, i wouldnt worry about it too much, just spend an extra 50 quid on a nice sized HD and youll never use the dvdrom anyway

**pmg68** · 26th January 2004

bought about a dozen in the last 2 months from Argos, Woolies and PC World.

All had Samsung drives except the one I got from PC World :censored

**mummikub** · 26th January 2004

missus got mine from woolies couple of weeks before xmas and its got a samsng drive

**Mr.James** · 26th January 2004

What's wrong with the samsung drives?

My mate got his xbox a couple of months back and it has a samsung drive. It's read all the DVDs and CDs I've burnt for him.

**markmmouse** · 26th January 2004

I know a few people who have brought them latley.
The ones the have been brought from Game had samsung drives in.

**toao** · 26th January 2004

i bought an xbox in december version 1.5 and mine had a shit thompson drive i got mine from gamestation. my m8 bought one from the same shop about 2 days later and his had samsung drive (jammy git) it is just pot luck.

**The Gab** · 26th January 2004

Originally Posted by Mr.James

What's wrong with the samsung drives?

My mate got his xbox a couple of months back and it has a samsung drive. It's read all the DVDs and CDs I've burnt for him.

Nothin' wrong with them, this is the reason people want them.

Last few machines I've done have all had Samsung drives. Dunno where they were bought from though.

**Boo** · 26th January 2004

Bought 2 just before xmas both with samsung drive from game.

**2die4** · 26th January 2004

I bought 2 last month. The 1st one for my nephews Christmas present from Dixons in the UK and that had a Samsung drive and a 2nd one from a shop in Sweden for myself which had a Phillips drive in it. Luckily I know a guy in town who mods xboxs and he had a couple with Samsung drives in so I swapped the drive over. Can't remember the manufacture date of the one I bought my nephew but mine was November 2003.

**sanj** · 26th January 2004

Just be glad you did'nt get a xbox with a new phillips drive in it!They don't read at least 99% of the dvd'rs out there and if you try to adjust the laser it burn's out the drive and does'nt even read original's, last two x-boxes that came to me both had these phillips drives in.

**[Slip]** · 26th January 2004

bought an Xbox 2 weeks ago from Amazon, got a Samsung drive

**Freaky** · 27th January 2004

Originally Posted by sanj

Just be glad you did'nt get a xbox with a new phillips drive in it!They don't read at least 99% of the dvd'rs out there and if you try to adjust the laser it burn's out the drive and does'nt even read original's, last two x-boxes that came to me both had these phillips drives in.

jesus, would you go sick if that happened, id be gutted

i was lucky enough to get my green xbox with a samsung in it, it reads every dvdr ive ever put in it, and not only does it read cdr, but reads the cheapest crappyest cdr i can find, i reckon it would read a choccy biccy if i put one in

**Mooncat** · 27th January 2004

Chipped a V1.5 with Focus video chip last week and it had a Philips in it. I found last week that the grey Datawrite disks and Bulcpac orange disks that work great in my plain old vanilla Thompson drive every time, would not work on any samsung drive I tried and were realy dodgy in the Philips one mentioned above so its swings and roundabouts with drives reading in DVDr the only bonus with the Samsung and the Philips is they play CDr.

**2die4** · 27th January 2004

Bulkpaq orange work sound in my Sammy drive xbox, I just put games that are about 2gb in size on them, anything that is a full dvd I put on ritek but at about �12 for 25 of the bulkpaq tangos then it's all good with me. Never tried the grey Datawrite ones though.

My original Phillips drive I had in my xbox before I swapped it would not read any kind of CDR.

**Mooncat** · 27th January 2004

I wouldnt bover with the greys I just stick to the Datawrite yellows for Sammys and Philips and Tango Bulqpaq for myself as they work fine in my Tommy and are a fantastic price at the moment. The Philips drive I had this week played cheapo shit cdr's I installed slayers 2.5 from one.

**baggy13** · 27th January 2004

ive upgraded about 50 of these since xmas most are sammys the rest have mostly been thomsons with very few philips i wonder if they are droping these drives