When the Xbox 360 console formats a 1gb USB device, it adds 978mb of data to it in just 20 seconds. I can see the files on the USB and they are that size.
When I copy a file of the same length in Windows, it takes 6 minutes.
Maybe it is because Windows reads/writes, but the 360 just writes?
Is there a way to create large files like that on a USB with that kind of performance? The files can be blank, of course. I need this writing performance for my application.
Most of the cmd tools I have tried have not had any noticeable performance gains.
It would appear that the 360 is allocating space for the file and writing some data to the file, but is otherwise leaving the rest of the file filled with whatever data was there originally (so-called “garbage data”). When you copy a file of the same size to the drive, it is writing all 978MB of, which is a different scenario and is why it takes so much longer.