Xbox 360 USB Drive Support

04-06-2010 Xbox 360 USB Drive Support

The day has finally come. The update that I was told to get excited about installed to my Xbox 360 this morning. The ecstasy I get from new features was at the same level as always, but this time it ended very flaccid. Curious how the newly accepted solid state media would stack up against the hard drive and DVD ROM, I did some load comparisons between a few games. As you can see, the prize contender didn't even put up a fight, in some cases actually loading slower than the DVD ROM drive. While I'm not complaining about free storage, a 228x speed USB drive should be able to beat a 5400 RPM drive handily. The Xbox 360 USB bus must have horrific overhead.

USB Drive Support

Game (load time in seconds)	USB	DVD	HDD
Bioshock 2	40.1	39.5	26.6
Borderlands	16.8	20.5	15.3
Battlefield BC2 SP	50.9	28.1	24.6
Battlefield BC2 MP	27.3	28.1	22.5

User Comments for 04-06-2010:

Your data is flawed B-rad... 1) I was with you when you bought the cheap ass slow speed USB stick.. what did you expect? Re-run it with a better USB stick with a faster transfer rate then see how it stacks up. 2) Even with the snail USB stick, it's still less wear and tear on the DVD drive.
Excelcier

On the contrary, that dive is faster than my OCZ Rally. Get the benchmark from here: http://www.flashmemorytoolkit.com/ it ran 228x the Rally was only 219x
AtomicInternet

The cheap ass USB stick is a lie. I'm also way to lazy to highlight your link copy it and paste it into a browser. Why can't you activate links!
Stavos

Didn't Major Nelson also tell you to destroy all Canadians?
MorlockPrime

Suck my what?
Excelcier

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