Hardware GOD or XEX which format is good for Hard drive health (for longevity)

[Ultra_Magnus]

Some games contain over 1,000 files in XEX format. When I converted them to GOD format, the number of files decreased significantly, depending on the game size.
Which format, GOD or XEX, is better for hard drive health?
Which format (XEX or GOD) results in fewer read/write head movements?
I'm not referring to game loading speed or transfer speed between storage devices

 

[Latiodile]

both are reading and searching for the same files anyway, god is just looking within archives while xex is just the raw game folder

 

[CoolMe]

Don't think anyone can really answer your question correctly.. but yea, xex usually comes with alot of files than GOG, i prefer that latter easy for my ocd, tho i do use/have both. Discs i rip on my own i convert them to GOD. The ones that you'd download from the internet are in xex format, so i just leave them as is.
As for which is good hdd longevity, you only gonna write the data once, reading it is shouldn't put too much (if any) stress at all on the hdd, so just go with whatever format you like best.

 

[Ultra_Magnus]

Don't think anyone can really answer your question correctly.. but yea, xex usually comes with alot of files than GOG, i prefer that latter easy for my ocd, tho i do use/have both. Discs i rip on my own i convert them to GOD. The ones that you'd download from the internet are in xex format, so i just leave them as is.
As for which is good hdd longevity, you only gonna write the data once, reading it is shouldn't put too much (if any) stress at all on the hdd, so just go with whatever format you like best.

Thanks, I've had this doubt for a long time

 

[InsaneNutter]

Neither should affect your hard drive health, however I preferer GOD as FTP works a lot better transferring a few large files compared to 1000's of very small files.

 

[CoolMe]

Neither should affect your hard drive health, however I preferer GOD as FTP works a lot better transferring a few large files compared to 1000's of very small files.

Also, not sure if this happens to others or just me, but in a few instances when transferring those small files among them sometimes there are 0 byte files, and they'd cause the 360 to shutdown immediately.. weird, happened to me many times, i had to copy those 0 byte files to a usb then to the 360 with varying success. They're probably inconsequential, as i tried one game without that file without encountering any issues. but I just made sure to copy them just to be thorough.

 

[Ultra_Magnus]

Also, not sure if this happens to others or just me, but in a few instances when transferring those small files among them sometimes there are 0 byte files, and they'd cause the 360 to shutdown immediately.. weird, happened to me many times, i had to copy those 0 byte files to a usb then to the 360 with varying success. They're probably inconsequential, as i tried one game without that file without encountering any issues. but I just made sure to copy them just to be thorough.

I also encountered this problem while copying games, but I never knew the reason. In this case, I usually change the format of the game and try copying it again

 

[HawaiianInTown]

GoD, games are playable in X1-X series Canary UWP.

EDIT : Not that this is an answer to your question, sorry.

 

[shinozaki]

some games that cause problems in god format, an example is alien isolation that does not go beyond the initial cinematic but in xex it works perfectly

I usually use god to have everything more organized and xex to add language patches or join 2 disks into 1

 

[DinohScene]

Both shouldn't affect HDD health.

I personally prefer folder rips for easier game modding and the HDD I have in mine albeit old now... hasn't given me any problems in the 15 years it's been in there.

 

[CoolMe]

some games that cause problems in god format, an example is alien isolation that does not go beyond the initial cinematic but in xex it works perfectly

I had the first disc installed, which is necessary, and the 2nd disc in God format iirc. I don't recall encountering this issue

or join 2 disks into 1

And how do you that? Don't tell me you just merge folders

 

[shinozaki]

I had the first disc installed, which is necessary, and the 2nd disc in God format iirc. I don't recall encountering this issue

And how do you that? Don't tell me you just merge folders

The alien, I don't know why it gives me problems on the Xbox E, since I have time on the slim, it didn't give me problems.


If only merging folders does not work in all games, the ones I have tested are

Watch Dogs
Final Fantasy XIII
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings


This saves me the disk change and data installation
and sometimes they are lighter since disk 1, 2 and 3 inside you have identical files

an example Watch Dogs, Extract the contents of the 2 DVDs into separate folders, then go to the folder on DVD 1 called installation 1, and copy everything that is inside it and paste it into the root of DVD 2. Then you fly again to the DVD 1 folder and this time you enter the one called installation 2, copy everything that is inside it and paste it in the root of DVD 2. You can now delete the DVD1 folder if you want

As a last step, in the DVD 2 folder rename the default.xex to default_1.xex and the game.xex file to default.xex

Copy DVD 2 to the disk you use for the 360 and play

 

[CoolMe]

The alien, I don't know why it gives me problems on the Xbox E, since I have time on the slim, it didn't give me problems.

So that happens only on the 360 E (Winchester), interesting