What does this do exactly?

[Raspi454]

I put the disc in, press X, and there is a install option. What does this do? It is a disc game.

[Slottr]

Helps load times 

[Tabs]

8 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Helps load times 

@The Cheeto Bomb

 

Pretty much this. It will move files from the disc onto the internal disk drive to speed up loading times. If the game is large and consists of many small files, it can be a huge difference, since access times on optical media are measured in hundreds of milliseconds, whereas seek times on even the slowest hard disk are at worst 20ms.

 

The potential improvements in load times are greater if you have a solid state drive in your machine, but games don't see as much of a gain from solid state storage as normal pcs running standard apps do.

[Raspi454]

1 hour ago, Tabs said:

@The Cheeto Bomb

 

Pretty much this. It will move files from the disc onto the internal disk drive to speed up loading times. If the game is large and consists of many small files, it can be a huge difference, since access times on optical media are measured in hundreds of milliseconds, whereas seek times on even the slowest hard disk are at worst 20ms.

 

The potential improvements in load times are greater if you have a solid state drive in your machine, but games don't see as much of a gain from solid state storage as normal pcs running standard apps do.

If my disc becomes unreadable due to scratches, can I use this to play it as long as the disc is in?

[PlayStation 2]

17 minutes ago, The Cheeto Bomb said:

If my disc becomes unreadable due to scratches, can I use this to play it as long as the disc is in?

Pretty much. As long as the console can tell what game it is, it can be played off of the hard drive.

[Crunchy Dragon]

-Moved to Console Gaming-

[Raspi454]

On 8/15/2018 at 5:46 PM, Dan Castellaneta said:

Pretty much. As long as the console can tell what game it is, it can be played off of the hard drive.

Sweet

 

On 8/15/2018 at 6:12 PM, Crunchy Dragon said:

-Moved to Console Gaming-

Awe man. Well it started as a question, but it is a console question I guess.

[Stefan Payne]

6 hours ago, The Cheeto Bomb said:

I put the disc in, press X, and there is a install option. What does this do? It is a disc game.

It installs the game to the Harddisk of the 360 so that you need the Disk only for loading/as a Dongle.

Once it is on the Disk, it reduces load times.

 

 

Only works if you have a HDD inside, not the 4GB One. Though you can mod some HDDs to work with the 360 and the HDD Bay is available in some shopping portals.

[Stefan Payne]

If you do not have a HDD, here's a list of compatible Drives:

Works with the following Western Digital drive series: [BEAS/BEVS/BEVT/BPVT/LPVT/BEKT/BJKT/BPKT/BUDT/HLFS/BLFS]

 

 

You can get the HDD Case for like 5 bucks for the Slim, the Fat is another thing.

 

And with that List above you could also upgrade your internal HDD to another one, though you need a specific WD Model 

[Raspi454]

On 8/16/2018 at 11:01 PM, Stefan Payne said:

If you do not have a HDD, here's a list of compatible Drives:

Works with the following Western Digital drive series: [BEAS/BEVS/BEVT/BPVT/LPVT/BEKT/BJKT/BPKT/BUDT/HLFS/BLFS]

 

 

You can get the HDD Case for like 5 bucks for the Slim, the Fat is another thing.

 

And with that List above you could also upgrade your internal HDD to another one, though you need a specific WD Model 

I already have hdd for the fat. 

[Stefan Payne]

6 hours ago, The Cheeto Bomb said:

I already have hdd for the fat. 

Ah, great.

Now you know that you could upgrade it, if you wanted to
 

Just look for "Hack HDD for XBox 360". I did that with a WD Black, 250GB in my Slim. And just jamed the HDD into the HDD Bay, without the Casing...

 

The interesting thing is that you could, theoretically, use a 15mm big HDD in there...