Xbox 360 HDD - Never needs a defrag?

[Kabob]

I've been wondering for a while, does the Xbox 360 HDD never need a defrag? Considering all the stuff I've installed and deleted, filled part of the space up with other stuff, etc etc, I'm amazed there's no way to defrag the disc.

Any thoughts on this? Lately I've been in the mode of "install a game and if I delete it fill the slot with another game" and such since I don't have a huge HDD (60GB).

 

[Hopeless]

I've wondered that myself. Although I have the 20GB so most of the time I only have 1 game installed at a time.

 

[Kabob]

I'd think you'd have it even worse then, you install a game that's 6.2 GB's and delete it then install a game that's 6.6 GB's and you've DL'd stuff in between, I figure it'd be all over the place.

 

[sourceninja]

Disk writing is only done on save files and game installs. It's really nowhere near the level of writes done on a modern PC. I'm doubt a need would show up all that often. Plus if they were smart, they wrote code in to optimise during idle time.

 

[Kabob]

Plus if they were smart, they wrote code in to optimise during idle time.

This is what I was wondering. Good point though, they're not updating a registry or changing one of 100,000 setting files during basic use.

 

[RyanPaulShaffer]

It probably has an auto-defrag type deal like Vista does where it automatically defrags during periods of low/no activity.

 

[Kabob]

Yeah, but how often is the 360 in a state of low/no activity? I don't leave it on like I do my PC. Unless streaming Netflix uses almost zero resources...

 

[RyanPaulShaffer]

Yeah, but how often is the 360 in a state of low/no activity? I don't leave it on like I do my PC. Unless streaming Netflix uses almost zero resources...

The 360 was designed to be used without a hard drive (because of the Arcade models), and all games have to adhere to that standard. Unless you are saving a game or the game is installed to the HDD (a relatively new feature), there is probably little to no activity on the 360 HDD a vast majority of the time.