NOONE knows. and if you are going to use the hack merely to pirate games without buying any, you may as well leave this forum and not come back.

before anything, clean the lense. and yes, the mechanics of the drive are usually quite durable, the laser is the main part when you get reading errors.

yep.

apparently there is, but I believe it's not public.

before you go switching anything, try simply cleaning the laser. best method would be a q-tip and alcohol, but if you don't have that, a cleaning cd/dvd will do the trick, although you may have to run it a few times.
if that fails, the most likely cause is that your laser is dying. you can get replacement lasers for much less than a whole new drive on ebay for example.

if you don't know what you are talking about, shut the hell up. that's the way the game caching works, that's known fact.
and some games copy a lot of data to cache on first launch, so it takes longer to start (i.e. oblivion).
and since you obviously can't read, I will point out the key word in my posting: "it MAY be caching data".
it is one possible cause.

we already had several discussions on this.
You can not connect a host device to a host device.

xbox 1 has no external power supply, so it has to be for 360.

forget the downgrade, that only works on older models that were never repaired or bought in the past months.
you could try clearing the updates (hold sync on the console, then power on and keep holding it), also try without HDD in case the cache is corrupt or something.

the solder connection is likely at the bottom side of the cap.

that change in the security check was intended, it certainly wasn't accidental. and it doesn't matter, it's not like they stopped checking the SS etc at all, they just "downgraded" to a more basic version of the check. you will still get banned for using un-stealthed disks.

depending on how many different games you play, it may be copying cache data. for every 3 or 4 games you play, the cache data of the oldest will be deleted automatically.

uh? ceramic caps can't leak. they're solid.

you don't have a choice of firmwares, there's only ixtreme. 1.41 is the latest. no region limitation, as the drive has nothing to do with the region.

the data is encrypted, yes. you can't f*** with it.
and even if so, chances are you'd get some poor f*** banned cause your generator got his serial.

then replace it for the same type.

I suggest you just give it up. If your heatsinks are seated right and you got thermal paste on there (not spoonfuls of it), and you still get that error, then the board is f***ed, end of story. you probably damaged the edram while messing around.

st.db is the xbox 1 database of ripped music cds.

did you also transfer partition 2 (cloning it, not file copy)? without it, no xbox 1 game will work, downloaded or disk.

RROD is a generic error. ANYTHING except for overheating CPU, missing video cable and defective drive will give you 3 red lights. If you scratched across the MB with a knife you would get RROD. If you ripped off some parts you'd get RROD. hell, you get a RROD if the GPU is missing.