How many games can I get on a HDD in the Xbox?

[bigfathairybiker]

I'm thinking of upgrading my HDD in the Xbox when my XE3 CE chip arrives.

Apparently I heard that with the original HDD you can only get around two or three games on it.

I was looking at the new 400GB disks available now, how many would this hold?

Regards,

Mark

 

[fjbm97]

It depends on the game size, they dont have an standard size... there are games out there that got for example 850MB, 1.2GB, 3.5GB.... 7GB... but i would use an Average of 3.5GB each...

 

[kowrip]

It depends on the game size, they dont have an standard size... there are games out there that got for example 850MB, 1.2GB, 3.5GB.... 7GB... but i would use an Average of 3.5GB each...

It seems to me that the AVERAGE game size is about 2.5GB. There's also a few GB of overhead for the HD, depending on what other things are on it.

 

[linuxn00b2004]

True.

I would have to agree with kowrip: I believe average size is a safe 2.5 Gigs. Right now, on my 80 Gig, I have about 20 games or so, and I still have about 25 Gigs left. There are some large games on there though: Halo 2, Halo, etc. Halo 2. for example, takes up 5.2... I think (somebody else can confirm this). Halo 2 was the first game I backed up on my stock hard drive, and I was only left with, like, 500 Megs. So, really, there is quite a bit of overhead. I was left with 72 Gigs useful space on my 80 Gig after installing the various programs I needed, such as xToolbox, UnleashX, XBox Media Center, yadda, yadda yadda.

Hope that helps put things into persective for you.

- Greg

 

[freakzilla3333]

Probably about 130 games at 3GB each.

 

[da_supa_fish]

alot but sumhow i don't think u'll have time to play that many.

 

[Slawek]

i have 15 backed up and i hardly have time to play 3 of them lol

 

[Falc0]

Haha, yeah, I have about 25-30 on my Xbox right now and I rarely play them all..but there will be that one day when I get bored and decided to play every last one of them that day.

 

[mattydread]

Algebra for beginners:

x= HDD Size
y= Average game size
z= Size of other necessary applications (i.e. C:, XBMC etc etc)
a= Number of games that can fit on HDD

(x-z)/y=a

Cheers

apologies in advance for being facetious.

 

[bigfathairybiker]

Thanks for the input people.

I've decided that a 120GB disk is big enough!

I've installed the X3CE and X3 bios no problems at all!

Simple stuff this!