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    News - Microsoft brings USB storage support to Xbox 360

    USB memory support now available from mandatory system update.
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    Re: News - Microsoft brings USB storage support to Xbox 360

    Ooo, just tested this with my USB stick and managed to copy all my game saves and profiles to a USB stick! No need for overpriced memory cards now methinks!

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    Re: News - Microsoft brings USB storage support to Xbox 360

    Can we install games to a flash drive for better load times etc?

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    Re: News - Microsoft brings USB storage support to Xbox 360

    Quote Originally Posted by Irien View Post
    Can we install games to a flash drive for better load times etc?
    I think that its possible, yeah


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    Re: News - Microsoft brings USB storage support to Xbox 360

    Quote Originally Posted by Irien View Post
    Can we install games to a flash drive for better load times etc?
    Why would you do that?

    You would be going from the USB interface which will be slower than SATA
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    Re: News - Microsoft brings USB storage support to Xbox 360

    Quote Originally Posted by finlay666 View Post
    Why would you do that?

    You would be going from the USB interface which will be slower than SATA
    Good point... for some reason I was thinking that the hard drive on the 360 used a USB connection itself,
    but now that I think about it, I don't recall ever reading that, so I'm prolly just in cloud cookoo land.

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    Re: News - Microsoft brings USB storage support to Xbox 360

    Is this gonna open the way for people modifying games and profile files?

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    Re: News - Microsoft brings USB storage support to Xbox 360

    Quote Originally Posted by finlay666 View Post
    Why would you do that?

    You would be going from the USB interface which will be slower than SATA
    The interface does not determine the performance (just sets limits). A flash drive has much lower latency than an optical medium, is silent and depending on how much you spent, will have a better throughput too (i'm assuming the xbox has usb2.0 ports).
    I guess you can copy a game on a flash drive, the game itself will provide you with the option?

    btw what took them so long! at least they are adding new features, not taking them away ala sony style.

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    Re: News - Microsoft brings USB storage support to Xbox 360

    Quote Originally Posted by semo View Post
    The interface does not determine the performance (just sets limits). A flash drive has much lower latency than an optical medium, is silent and depending on how much you spent, will have a better throughput too (i'm assuming the xbox has usb2.0 ports).
    I guess you can copy a game on a flash drive, the game itself will provide you with the option?
    Latency is not the limiting factor here, it's bandwidth and continued read/seek speeds, it's not optical media we are talking about either as it's installed to a hard drive not running from disc. You are also limited to 32gb max so not much point in using it for game installs when the hard drive on newer models are much larger

    You CAN install to USB (testing now with GTA4) but I doubt the performance will be much to shout about
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    Re: News - Microsoft brings USB storage support to Xbox 360

    Quote Originally Posted by semo View Post
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    As already mentioned by Finlay loading games from the HDD will be faster than USB. More to the point, i'd wager that if you can afford a decent USB drive you can probably afford one of the newer 250GB HDD's anyway so using a USB stick is pointless.
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    Re: News - Microsoft brings USB storage support to Xbox 360

    Quote Originally Posted by Terbinator View Post
    As already mentioned by Finlay loading games from the HDD will be faster than USB. More to the point, i'd wager that if you can afford a decent USB drive you can probably afford one of the newer 250GB HDD's anyway so using a USB stick is pointless.
    Installing GTA4 to the HDD as I said, 15 minutes and 40%, HDD would be finished by now.... what a surprise
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    Re: News - Microsoft brings USB storage support to Xbox 360

    I'm sorely tempted to test my 120GB Xbox drive against my OCZ Core 1 SSD in a USB Caddy

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    Re: News - Microsoft brings USB storage support to Xbox 360

    Well installed to a sandisk Cruzer u3 drive (16gb) of GTA4 took over 30 minutes, game could not be run from the USB stick as it was too slow in the read speed, cant see it being good for that kind of use
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    Re: News - Microsoft brings USB storage support to Xbox 360

    Wow that's pretty surprising, why on Earth did they enable game installs on USB drives if they won't even work? Why don't they treat it like the optical drive and cache stuff to the HDD? If they want to get themselves a good name they should just allow people to upgrade the HDD themselves, allowing only their 'official' one is just stupid as it's a complete rip-off. I'm putting up with a 20GB one because there's no way I'm paying what they charge for the upgrades!!

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    Re: News - Microsoft brings USB storage support to Xbox 360

    Well my usb stick didnt meet the perf req's so I'm not that surprised

    Access to storage devices is the main way to hack a console, restricting it helps restrict piracy
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    Re: News - Microsoft brings USB storage support to Xbox 360

    Well that's nothing but a lame excuse from MS - anyone who wants to access a 360's HDD to mod something can do it very easily as it's nothing but a SATA drive in a caddy so they either take it out of the caddy or use a cable. The PS3 gives you complete access to the HDD (I think the contents is encrypted) and it's not like it's plagued with hacks compared to the 360 is it - have you been playing MW2 on the 360 lately?

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