Gamespot did a test of the new dashboard feature of loading games to the hdd.
http://ct.gamespot.com/clicks?t=72357250-c7821625153b73fe8680fc3a1790e705-bf&brand=GAMESPOT&s=5
Seems like its pretty much not worth it, when you factor in you’ll need a 120gb in order to have any number of games, and those arent cheap!
Elderan on 7 November, 2008
on my 3 year old ( near 4 ) copying stuff to the hd (fable 2 6.8gb) i found a 30% increase in speed.
I have the beta
Alan Hamlyn on 7 November, 2008
Any change to the xbox which is new is welcome to me, XBOX hasn’t recieved any significant updates in ages… but we’ll soon see how much time it saves us, Fable 2 has annoyingly long loading times, so even a 10 second time save is welcome
Bill Nunney on 7 November, 2008
That’s a pretty good performance increase. Though i’d still have to shell out allot for a 120gb hdd (unless i go through the fun of modding it myself).
Elderan on 7 November, 2008
you still have to have the disc in, so do you really need to put them on to the hdd? shaving a seconds off is welcome, but do you want to store a large number of games onto a hdd which you can’t defrag?
Alan Hamlyn on 7 November, 2008
defragging shouldnt be so much of an issue, after all operating systems write, delete, move data on a more regular basis than that of a games console which saves occasionally during games, surely microsoft would have considered this too?
Bill Nunney on 7 November, 2008
I haven’t actually defraged my PC in a long time
But then again my PC is awesome.
Alan Hamlyn on 7 November, 2008
can’t say the time element has ever outwieghed the gains of a lengthly defrag on my pc either. It’s faster to format and re-install everything by far.
Elderan on 7 November, 2008
Not defragging will but a horrendous strain on the hdd, the 360 uses a fat32 system with its file system and it has no defrag utility. deleting the small arcade games and now putting entire games on it will shorten the life span of the hdd by quite a bit. only ext2 & 3 can write and delete things properly.
Which naturally windows can’t use.
Formatting to escape defrag is a little overkill, also depends on your hdd speeds and what cache it has got.
This has gotten a little off topic, but woo for randomness ^_^
Bill Nunney on 7 November, 2008
the HDD is still using fat32! omg MS what the hell!?
my WD raptor is pretty fast so i don’t notice.
i just screendhotted my C fragmentation http://www.bigtallbill.co.uk/jingftp/2008-11-07_2201.png
no slow down yet
Elderan on 9 November, 2008
10,000 rpm drives will not really be slowed down much by fragmenting xD
still all that disk activity x.x;