Dashboard update to quiet 360 DVD drive?


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Dashboard update to quiet 360 DVD drive?

German website Cynamite is reporting that Microsoft has released a dashboard update to developers that will quiet the loud Xbox 360 DVD drive. This update will supposedly prevent the DVD drive from spinning at full RPM unnecessarily and will manage the drive's spin speed much better. In general, the update would tell the DVD drive not to spin so fast when it isn't needed, which would in turn make it less noisy. Cynamite is also reporting that the dashboard update should be coming to Xbox Live soon for the rest of us to download. Even though we know your answer we have to ask, would you welcome an update that would ultimately quiet down your 360's DVD drive?

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Nice, I suppose, but the problem now is that you're gonna notice it more (just speculating here). When it's one constant sound you get used to it, but if it's spinning up and down all the time, you're gonna keep noticing it.

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Dashboard update to quiet 360 DVD drive?

Even though we know your answer we have to ask, would you welcome an update that would ultimately quiet down your 360's DVD drive?

No way Jose, I want to keep this poor excuse of jet engine running on maximum RPM... :D

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when i first got my 360 i thought that the noisy drive was deafening (slightly exaggerating there :shifty: ), but now i'm used to it.

if this is true, the silence of the drive might be deafening and i might actually miss the loudness :laugh:

nonetheless, like you guys said, i just hope this doesn't mess up our systems

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Fingers crossed.

I wonder if the drive running at full RPM constantly has any influence in the hardware problems of the 360?

It certainly could be the cause of the disc scratching if the drive is spinning too fast. :\

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This shouldn't brick things, it's just better DVD drive managment, so when a game is reading data off the disc when you're playing, it's not spinning at full rpm, cutting noise out. When a game first loads up a level though, and needs to go at full speed, it will probably make the noise again.

This should give devs more control though, if your game doesn't need to spin the disc at full to get the data off of it, then you set it to go at a slower speed etc.

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