Warning!!! (do not toss or sell your OG Xbox Consoles)

[ignition365]

Quick google, quick skim... does this count as data? <https://www.flexense.com/fat32_exfat_ntfs_usb3_performance_comparison.html>

[tripredacus]

Quick google, quick skim... does this count as data? <https://www.flexense.com/fat32_exfat_ntfs_usb3_performance_comparison.html>

Research projects like this are severly limited when talking about USB flash devices. While there are measurable differences as shown in the testing results, it isn't anything you can use in a real world scenario. The reason being is that USB flash memory degrades and will get slow over time as more writes are performed. And even if you were to use only brand new flash drives all of the time, the file system choice is also meaningless (in this context of use with a gaming console) because the performance difference is not detectable by a human.

The discussion is in regards to hard disks. And the point that a person cannot make a boilerplate claim that one file system is better than another because the world doesn't work that way. File system choice has nothing really to do with performance unless you are talking about high availability systems. So you choose file system based on needs. For a general use scenario, it doesn't actually matter if you choose NTFS vs FAT32 but in some circumstances (when dealing with Windows) you would want to use NTFS over FAT32. It general comes down to volume size. On a flash drive it doesn't really matter. You'll have to use NTFS if you have large contiguous files.

And while you can use FAT32 on a disk larger than 32 GB it makes no sense to do so except for cost purposes. I know one instances of a cost reason, where a simulation company would use FAT32 on a 500 GB disk only because they needed to boot DOS and 500 GB was the smallest SATA disk available on the market.

[oldgamerz]

According to a post on Reddit, the free space available on the E drive (partition 1) of an original Xbox after modding is approximately 50,000 blocks 1. One block is equivalent to 16 kilobytes 1.

If we assume that the Xbox’s hard drive has a capacity of 8 gigabytes 1, then the total number of blocks on the hard drive would be approximately 524,288 blocks. Therefore, the 50,000+ blocks available on the E drive would represent approximately 9.5% of the total blocks on the hard drive.

Please note that the above information is based on a post on Reddit and may not be accurate. It is also important to note that modding an Xbox may void its warranty and is not recommended by Microsoft 1.

oldgamerz:
I did some research from my calculator and found out you (could) have 500,000 blocks on an 8GB harddrive