lagik best ker the drive? how to detect what kind of drive i have?

from what i see, the current xbox360 is like an old school car. must warm up first, and then want to shut down oso have to warm down. so what i do is, i turn on my 360 for 10-15 minutes and let it linger in the dashboard for a while. then i pop in the game into the drive. play it for an average of 2 hours a day. then go back to dashboard, remove the game, and then let it linger in the dashboard for another 10-15 minutes, then turn off power.

i dont know if my method will actually help against the cilakeness of 3ROD.