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Title: Hdd Issues
Post by: Psychoschiz on January 29, 2003, 03:34:00 AM

As everyone is aware, when running an OS on a HDD, the file system eventually gets fragmented.

Could this be an issue for the Xbox that will effect, read/seek times ?
If so is there anyway to optimize the HDD for performance, or is this not something the Xbox will suffer from

I mean this as a user on an upgraded HDD 120GB will games installed

Any advise would be appreciated

Title: Hdd Issues
Post by: Psychoschiz on January 29, 2003, 05:04:00 AM

Thanks for the info, Forgot about the temp drives
lol

Laters

Title: Hdd Issues
Post by: jfuller on January 29, 2003, 05:24:00 AM

Thats ok but what about general day to day fragmentation caused by movement of files,

I copy stuff onto the xbox, then delete it after a while if I dont need it. I know this isn't going to cause as much fragmentation as say a swap file or some thing that changes constantly but  my musical tastes vary and if I don't listen to an album or whatever for a few weeks it'll get removed to make way for another one.

This will *eventually* need defragging surely?

Title: Hdd Issues
Post by: Psychoschiz on January 31, 2003, 02:40:00 AM

I agree,

I do exactly the same thing.
Once I`m done using a BACKUP or done with musinc im bored if, I too delete etc etc
So yeah I guess this would cause fragmentation of some kind.
Surly this will be a problem to come ????

Anyone else got any thoughts on this???

Title: Hdd Issues
Post by: Marmite on January 31, 2003, 09:30:00 AM

I think I read that someone was creating a defrag app.