Minispy SATA

by Talismoon

Product Features

• Transfer game saves, screen shots, demos and other media to your PC
• Quickly move mp3's, restore game saves and profiles, and move other data to your Xbox 360 as required
• Back up all important data to your computer in case of catastrophic loss

Product Details

• ASIN: B000ID32PY
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 2 inches ; 11.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,707 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

The Minispy SATA Adapter is a device that allows data transfer between your Xbox 360 Hard drive and your personal computer. However you may look at things, the fact is that 20GB of storage space for your average 360 gamer is just not enough The Minispy allow you to free up space on a 360 hard drive via acting as a bridge between the drive and a PC. Included with the Minispy: Special xbox360 to PC adapter Serial ATA cable Power Cable PCI Plate with built in internal connections Software CD with Xplorer 360 software and Manual

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 360 Backup, March 26, 2008

By 

Dano "TheOneDan" (Colorado Springs, CO) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Minispy SATA (Video Game)

Good for backing up your 360 hard drive. Allows you to restore drive if using a new 360 hard drive of same size. Would not suggest for file transfer or tampering with hard drive files. 360Explorer a little confusing. XP system will see drive, but identified as unkown partition so it wont assign it a drive letter. 360Explorer wont see it unless you have disk management open identifing it. Otherwise works well.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good idea, horrendous execution, August 26, 2009

By 

Jonathan Mettin (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Minispy SATA (Video Game)

The first thing you will notice when taking this product out of the box is how cheap the whole lot is. It's in a box that isn't even sealed, and all the components are lying in a cheap plastic tray in the box. There's a mini CD with drivers (none of which are for this particular product) and a readme, but the readme is poorly formatted (not even word-wrapped so you have to continue to scroll horizontally to read it), uninformative and contains a section of unintelligible gibberish at the bottom (I mean that - it's a random series of letters and symbols that takes up a few paragraphs' worth of space).

There's not even an instruction manual, just a link for online directions that takes you to a product page that has an option to buy the adapter or troubleshooting. The troubleshooting would have been helpful if it had installation tips, but the only two items are for problems after the install has been completed.

The PCI card that actually plugs into the computer seems okay, but the part that attaches to the Xbox hard drive is garbage. A small, easily-misinterpreted diagram on the side is the closest thing we get to an instruction. The piece is simply a casing over a small circuit board - poorly secured at that.

Finally, the included drivers are only from Windows 98 and 2000. My XP-running machine could not recognize the hardware to save its life, and even my Vista platform was having issues with it.

Avoid the headaches I had and bypass this product in favor of a USB-compatible transfer kit.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible Product, March 5, 2009

By 

T. Clinton - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Minispy SATA (Video Game)

I followed the directions to a "T". After only one minute connected to my PC the Talismoon Minispy SATA Xbox 360 hard Drive Data Transfer Adapter Kit caught on FIRE. It burned the connector box and fried the adapter port on my 360 HDD Shell. I didn't even have the chance to see if I could read any of the files from my 360 HDD. Currently unable to play 360. I would not recommend this product to anyone.