i am considering the new 4GB console bundle - can the games be ripped to a flash drive? if not, is 4GB enough for casual gaming?

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rpmehta July 26, 2010

i am considering the new 4GB console bundle - can the games be ripped to a flash drive? if not, is 4GB enough for casual gaming?

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brycecampbel 1 year ago

Yes you can install the games to a flash drive, however there is one limitation. There is a size limit of the flash drive that can be use and it is either 8 or 16 GB (pretty sure it is 16 GB however). But since flash drives have dropped in price so much it really isn't that big of a deal and the speed improvements should be noticeable.

Think the 360 S 4GB is a great option and would probably get one myself if I did not have a PS3.

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ourufnek99 2010-08-29 22:19:47

I would not get the 4gb model, I burn every game to the hard drive, they run smoother.

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SillyMo 2010-07-26 23:43:59

Games should be able to be ripped to any drive, internal hard drive, internal flash or external usb flash. 4 gigs isnt enough for pretty much any disc based game though. Casual gaming? Yeah... you just wont have a ton of space for downloading xbox arcade games.

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rpmehta 2010-07-27 16:24:23

why is 4GB not enough for disc-based game?

SillyMo 2010-07-27 18:45:17

If you install or as you said rip the game to a drive, the majority of all disc based games are larger than 4 gigs. LEGO Harry Potter is around 6 (5.8 if I remember correctly) Burnout Paradise is almost 7 gigs (including the updates and most of the downloadable content for it). 4 gigs is just simply not enough.

rpmehta 2010-07-27 23:31:50

But then, if I can store the games on flash drives, I can get up to 16GB, right? I could rip them to multiple flash drives and use them as needed?

brycecampbel 2010-07-28 01:21:18

The XBOX 360 only supports up to 16 GB so yes you can get 16 GB and yes you can get multiple drives. you will probably average about 2-3 games per drive, depending on the size. Here is a really good article by Paul Thurrott --http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/paul-thurrotts-wininfo/Xb... -- which talks about the limitations on the flash drives.

So to simplify the answer to your question, yes you could install the games to multiple flash drives as need.

rpmehta 2011-01-05 14:19:32

i cannot the XBA games to a different storage device?

donjumpsuit 2010-11-01 12:19:56

You can use the drive from your old Xbox, if you have one. Just remove it from its case, and insert it in the new xbox 4gig. It recognizes immediately.

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