It's more trouble than it's worth for all but the small handful of games that will actually stand to benefit by a full install.
Mass Effect is the only one I can think of offhand, and that's because the game was gimped by the lack of an install option from the beginning.
I'm still not buying the "10 minute" full ROM copy to HDD and 30% faster load times across the board. 30% may well only apply to certain situations. It should help with streaming textures, but I seriously doubt it's going to be the night and day difference some seem to be expecting.
Seeing as how it takes much longer than 10 minutes to copy 8GB of data from a DVD to HDD on a PC with a faster DVD drive and a faster 7200RPM HDD, it doesn't seem possible.
If those elevator rides in Mass Effect are still just as aggravatingly long, minus a few seconds (compare the PC version), I doubt I'll ever use the install option again.
We'll see. This may well be the most touted, least used feature added to the winter update.
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