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| I've noticed my xbox getting slower now for some reason. I have first
generation xbox, and the load times are just not as fast as they used
to be. I head that if you replace the ata33 cable with a 166 that
would make a difference.
That doesn't make sense to me. I think that there is a problem with
the drive getting fragmented. This makes more sense to me from a pc
aspect of things. Any ideas on h ow to accomplish this.
z
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"z123" <z123@z123.org> wrote in message
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quote:
> I've noticed my xbox getting slower now for some reason. I have first
> generation xbox, and the load times are just not as fast as they used
> to be. I head that if you replace the ata33 cable with a 166 that
> would make a difference.
>
> That doesn't make sense to me. I think that there is a problem with
> the drive getting fragmented. This makes more sense to me from a pc
> aspect of things. Any ideas on h ow to accomplish this.
>
> z
If you are playing games with saves that have been around for a while, which
would be a requirement if you can tell the difference over the time frame
you suggest, then these saves are pretty much static and fragmentation would
not be much of a problem for these. Not to mention that a XBOX drive is
used mostly for storage, not active swapping which would impact performance
in a typical PC.
Changing the cable on the hard drive helps little since the bulk of the data
comes from the game disc, except in the case of loading a saved game. Even
then the speedup from using a different cable is negligible with the drive
family in a stock XBox.
I would suspect that, instead of the hard drive being the culprit, you are
getting a lot of optical disc rereads that are working out okay but takes a
little more time than you remember.
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| gerryR 2004-12-07, 5:49 pm |
| I don't know man, I know my cusin has a xBox a few years older than mine and
it makes noises that definatly sound like a hard drive crunching away that
mine doesn't and his didn't when he had it first off.
"xTenn" <xTennRemovePart@tds.net> wrote in message
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> "z123" <z123@z123.org> wrote in message
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> If you are playing games with saves that have been around for a while,
> which would be a requirement if you can tell the difference over the time
> frame you suggest, then these saves are pretty much static and
> fragmentation would not be much of a problem for these. Not to mention
> that a XBOX drive is used mostly for storage, not active swapping which
> would impact performance in a typical PC.
>
> Changing the cable on the hard drive helps little since the bulk of the
> data comes from the game disc, except in the case of loading a saved game.
> Even then the speedup from using a different cable is negligible with the
> drive family in a stock XBox.
>
> I would suspect that, instead of the hard drive being the culprit, you are
> getting a lot of optical disc rereads that are working out okay but takes
> a little more time than you remember.
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>
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"gerryR" <gerryR@ignoregerryr.com> wrote in message
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>I don't know man, I know my cusin has a xBox a few years older than mine
>and it makes noises that definatly sound like a hard drive crunching away
>that mine doesn't and his didn't when he had it first off.
>
Noise and fragmentation are different issues... But I do agree that a
drive can get louder as time goes by, although nothing like an old MFM/RLL
drive.
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