Most of the dash update articles say that the memory stick needs to be at least 1GB, so I dont think 256MB would work?
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Originally posted by Major Nelson
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256MB = Xbox 360 official memory card, not a USB stick
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May as well ask this here I suppose.
With this update coming on Tuesday, will there be anything to prevent me using a USB adapter with with one of the dozen or so SD or Memory Sticks that I've got lying around?
I usually go for first party stuff but with Microsoft announcing prices of $39.99 (8GB) and $69:99 (16GB) for the official stuff I very quickly went off that idea.
Also, if anybody knows of small USB Memory Stick Duo (preferably) adapters I'd be grateful if you could let me know. I've had a look online and most seem fairly bulky but I'd like to have one that I could just leave plugged into the back and forget about but the adapters I have at the moment stick out a few inches.Comment
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I used a microSD USB adapter on my 360 and it was fine. I think the only thing you'd have to bear in mind is whether the adapter appears as a single drive or not. Adapters that take CF, SD, MMC, MS, etc, I imagine won't work because they show up as multiple drives (or maybe the 360 will just see one of them, so you'd have to figure out which slot it's recognising).
I could be completely wrong, but I'm basing this on two things I've found:
1) A USB stick I have that has a regular partition and a security partition - problem is they appear as completely separate drives, not two partitions on one drive, and the 360 doesn't want to know (both partitions are freely accessible and FAT formatted).
2) I also tried an external hard drive of mine that has two partitions - one is a 10gb FAT32 partition and the other NTFS, and the 360 didn't even let me access the FAT32 one (whereas my PS3 did, naturally it didn't recognise the NTFS one).
I doubt you'd get a very small USB MSD adapter as the MSD itself is quite wide. This seems to be the smallest I can find:
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To answer the original question: yes, according to eurogamer
though not by that much. Comparable with HDD installs though.Comment
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I've got a 4gb slim and I just used EvilBoris' code on it to remove updates so I could install the dash onto the internal memory. Of course, it was already on there to begin with but I've put my hdd from my previous 360 in and I'm not sure if it's running the dash off that or not (I imagine they're the same version) and I want to force it to install the dash to the hard drive.
I'm about to remove the hard drive and then install the dash to the internal memory and see what happens when I put the hard drive back in.Comment
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I'm pretty sure you want to keep the updates and gamertag on the internal memory. On the old arcade units that is were you got the very best performance. Superior to a HDD.
From my experiments it would run the dash from the internal memory/mem card even if you plugged the HDD in.
When you specify a device as the primary storage by it being the only storage present it caches dash specific data there and can access it much quicker. You'll notice the friends lists and games list populate themselves quicker if internal memory is the primary storageLast edited by EvilBoris; 13-09-2010, 10:08.Comment
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Well I did what I said above - clearing the dash cache with the hard drive in (message said ANY device with dash data would be cleared), then removing the hard drive and letting the dash update.
So currently I have my profiles and dash running off the internal 4GB.
One thing I did notice, though - ODST ignored my install file from the original hard drive so I had to delete it and reinstall (putting aside the performance hit from installing the Halo games). I've deleted all my game installs. It must encrypt them or do something like that to tie them to the machine they were installed on.Last edited by randombs; 13-09-2010, 11:29.Comment
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Yeah, game installs are DRMd like everything else but not tied to a gamertag. Even using a transfer cable renders them broker.
Just so you know ODST takes no performance hit from installation. It was optimised for installationComment
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Oh right. When I read about Halo I noticed they only mentioned the first three games, not ODST. That explains why it didn't load the level any quicker from the disc!Comment
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The multiplayer disc doesn't benefit mind, that's still using the old code from halo 3Comment
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I never play Halo multiplayer, but cheers for the heads-up.Comment
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