Which one of these drives r better? Some say Thompson, Some say Phillips?
And wot is the difference Between them, please?

u have no choice anyway m8, no retail outlet in the world is gonna let u strip down ur box prior to purchase, and there prolly gonna tell u to go and get f*kd if u reyurn 2 or 3 box's in the quest for the elusive phillips drive... so it's pretty much pot luck i'm afraid...u may get a phillips drive , but then u may get a tomo, like i got...i bought my xbox s/h, got a good deal too, but then it's an early model, with a scratchy thompson drive, so i got my pioneer 106 in there and it's all rosy now

cant speak of the phillips, but i've chipped 3 box's to date, all have had tomo drives, 1st (mine) is shite!..2nd a m8's, runs _all_ media including cdrs like a dream!..and the 3rd, another m8's, boots some games (eg. nba 2 night) from cheap dvdr media, but mine wont!...pah!, who can make sense of such inconsistent results!

hope my babble has been of some use to ya buddy, doubt it tho

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arthur_p_huxake

OPen the disk drive tray if hole is a perfect U its a thompson. We discussed this already. no need to disassemble

heheh...yeah!, wot handyguy said! ...(good point m8, i got a bit wrong last night, completely forgot about that thread... :-)

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arthur_p_huxake

Youcan always get whatever drive you want & install it externally, which is frightfully easy.