XBox One Install times

[Barozi]

Intrinsic said:

Barozi said:

Probably. I don't have any next gen console, but I can tell you that there doesn't exist a HDD that could transfer data at such high rates.

The fastest HDD has a write speed of about 250 MB/s under ideal circumstances. the fastest SSD about 500 MB/s under ideal circumstances.

on the HDD TLOU would need 205 seconds
on the SSD TLOU would need 102 seconds

Chances are that your 2TB HDD doesn't have 10000rpm and doesn't run under ideal circumstances and has a write speed of closer to ~150 MB/s, which would then take 341 seconds.

This is because the PS4 doesn't actually fully install the game. It installs just enough of it for you to start playing the game and then continues intsalling the game in the background. Basically its designed to get you into any game in less than a minute. typically, especially if playing a game for the first time, by the tim eyou get to the start screen, play around with the menues and start the first level or whatever you would probably have been dallying around for about 10mins. By the time you actually strat playing teh game the rest of it would have been installed.

That's exactly what I wrote in this thread.

I'm just saying that there can't be a difference (or at least a very big one) when it comes to copying data from disc to HDD on either PS4 or X1.

There are, from what I can see, two possibilities why the PS4 is able to finish the "install" earlier:

- The files aren't just copied from disc to HDD but extraced. That way the PS4 could have a hardware advantage and/or software advantage (better algorithm)
- From what I gathered the X1 automatically downloads the latest update while installing; the PS4 doesn't. Internet connection or XBL servers could be the limiting factor here.