Topic: Defragging the Xbox the hard drive. (Read 2946 times)

Dramlin · « **Reply #345 on:** October 22, 2003, 01:05:00 PM »

For the xbox follow these guidlines...

F drive, fill it to the max! There will be no performance loss by doing this..

dont entirely fill up E because you need to have room for save games and thats where they go.

XY and Z, dont put anything in there, thats where the cache is.

C, its best just to not put much in here, besides you only get 500mb in here anyways...

Since the xbox uses different partitions for its cache there will be no performance loss unlike filling up a normal hard drive running windows.

kkxxx · « **Reply #346 on:** October 22, 2003, 01:22:00 PM »

how many games can you fit on the standard xbox hd

PM5K · « **Reply #347 on:** October 22, 2003, 01:23:00 PM »

One word: Fragmentation

t0ken · « **Reply #348 on:** October 22, 2003, 01:28:00 PM »

One or two can fit on a standard xbox hard drive, depending on the size.

kkxxx · « **Reply #349 on:** October 22, 2003, 01:54:00 PM »

then it will be halo

mathias · « **Reply #350 on:** October 22, 2003, 02:29:00 PM »

I don't know if the xbox has problems with fragmentation because of thier filesystem just say like a tivio...

Nailed · « **Reply #351 on:** November 20, 2002, 08:52:00 AM »

This doesn't seem to be on anyone's priority list. One method, however, is to copy all the files off to another drive, erase the F drive, and copy the files back.

Nailed · « **Reply #352 on:** November 20, 2002, 09:09:00 AM »

Wow.. looks like some of ya need an education in memory management. There is a possibility the XBox does not fragment files, but its doubtful since it would result in much wasted disk space. However, this would not explain constantly expanding & contracting partitions at all. Nor do I think XBox partitions can expand & contract without using a 3rd party tool... doing this could cause data loss!

Gackt · « **Reply #353 on:** November 20, 2002, 09:17:00 AM »

You need to have around 4Gb free to let the games caché their files... even when you have your games stored in the HDD itself, the machine does not know that, and it will indeed caché the files into the disc. That is why filling the original Xbox HDD is so risky.

dripgoss · « **Reply #354 on:** November 20, 2002, 09:24:00 AM »

QUOTE (Gackt @ Nov 20 2002, 04:17 PM)

You need to have around 4Gb free to let the games caché their files... even when you have your games stored in the HDD itself, the machine does not know that, and it will indeed caché the files into the disc. That is why filling the original Xbox HDD is so risky.

BOO-YAH!! I guess Nailed skooled my ass! heh..

I didn't mean the PARTITTONS themselves are expanding/contracting, I meant the DATA inside the cache partitions is constantly expanding/contracting... Did everyone else know what I meant?

wmfms · « **Reply #355 on:** November 20, 2002, 11:33:00 AM »

Hey nailed,

I spoken to lots of people with exactly the same problem, yet no-one's doing anything about it. I'm almost convinced that this is a problem, cause I remember MS said that the HDD didn't need to be defragged because of the way it stores files... But boxplorer just copies the files straight over. Sounds trivial, but my machine has never crashed loading savegames or any other data that I didn't put on there manually. Anyway.. just wait and see I guess.

Thanks.

neverwill · « **Reply #356 on:** October 24, 2003, 07:40:00 PM »

This may be a dumb question, but does the xbox's hard drive ever have to be defraged? (I put in a 120gig)?

jC! · « **Reply #357 on:** October 24, 2003, 08:02:00 PM »

No...not really...but if you want there are programs that do it.

The file structure FATX is pretty good and really doesn't need defragin. The isn't much Re-Writing done except for saving games.

Nailed · « **Reply #358 on:** November 20, 2002, 05:06:00 PM »

Trying to understand something here.. if partitions don't magically resize, why should there be any need for a 4 GB buffer for a file cache on Drive F (I'll assume we're talking about Drive F cause we all know Drive E isn't a good place to copy files to)

I do think that in time, there may be a need to defragment Drive F. The best current solution is probably to copy all the files off and copy them back.

mikejf · « **Reply #359 on:** November 20, 2002, 05:19:00 PM »

>>Funnily enough, this has only started happening on the last few backups I've made, the first 8 or so worked fine and still do...

I've a WD 120Gig nearly full (< 25Gig free) and the last games copied still run fast.
What type of HD is it?
Did you fully zero it when preping?

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