Xbox Hard Drive Question

[XboxDragoon]

How come this bad boy never needs to be defragmented????

Any thoughts????

Thanks,
Dragoon

[elitewp]

I'm no expert, but I would guess the primary function the hard drive serves is to store saved games. So performance wouldn't be an issue and defragmenting the drive wouldn't be needed.

That would be my guess...

-EW

[XboxDragoon]

Originally posted by elitewp
I'm no expert, but I would guess the primary function the hard drive serves is to store saved games. So performance wouldn't be an issue and defragmenting the drive wouldn't be needed.

That would be my guess...

-EW

It also caches game data during loading.

[wweomaniac]

the things hella slow as it is. I don't think defragmenting is gonna help.I don't have much on my hardrive anyways. And I haven't deleted anything yet either.

[Hugh_Jass]

For all we know it automatically defrags in the background (like WinXP).

[XboxDragoon]

Originally posted by Hugh_Jass
For all we know it automatically defrags in the background (like WinXP).

Thats probably it. I have noticed that if you leave the xbox idleing you can hear the hard drive start to spool up. I have no idea what it does. But thats probably it. It even does it durning some games when its not even loading.

[Scarlet Spider]

i never let my xbox idle, im too much of a wuss

[Fixxer]

The hdd is partitioned into a bunch of sections... One section is used for caching stuff and is wiped all the time so you don't need to defrag it.

[Vuldarak Zeta]

suposedly it is a self defragmenting hd. thats one of the things sony fanboys were usin against the box at one point. sayin that the self defrag hd tecknology was to new and that the drive would crap out on us.