Currently I have 2 games only, RFOM and Enchanted Arm. In system settings I see the HD free space is 47GB from 55GB total space.

RFOM only takes up 126KB per save, and Enchanted 3347KB. I only have 1 save file for RFOM and 3 save files for Enchanted. Then under Game Data Utility, I can see RFOM has 126MB file. Strangely there is no game data for Enchanted. This only totals to roughly 137MB at most.

So what's eating 8GB from my HD? AFAIK the XMB operating system is stored in flash memory, so it doesn't take any HD space.

I know some games store cache in the HD, as was the case with Oblivion and Virtua Tennis 3 which I previously owned, and now RFOM as I can see in the Game Data Utility file. But I have always been able to delete these cache.

I strongly suspect Enchanted has a huge cache (although the cover only states minimum HD space is 3MB), but how do I delete this cache if in the future I decide to sell the game? As I said there is nothing under the Game Data Utility folder.

if its anything like the 360, a 20 gig hard drive only has ~13 usable gig, the 7 gig is used for... something? But its normal for the 360.

if its anything like the 360, a 20 gig hard drive only has ~13 usable gig, the 7 gig is used for... something? But its normal for the 360.

Is the 360 OS also stored in memory?

I guess it must be, seeing as Core's have no h/d. I vaguely recall the 8 gig is set aside for caching to speed up games, but that seems like a hell of a lot of memory. But I can garauntee that *every* premium console with a 20 gig h/d only has about 13 gig free memory.

Slightly off topic .... what do you think of Enchanted Arms??

I got it for the 360 and was really enjoying it and really liked the battle system. Then, after about 10 hours, started to find the gameplay a little repetitive so I took it back!!

Slightly off topic .... what do you think of Enchanted Arms??

I got it for the 360 and was really enjoying it and really liked the battle system. Then, after about 10 hours, started to find the gameplay a little repetitive so I took it back!!

It's an okay game. Although I'm only 3 hours into the game so I can't tell you much about the gameplay.

Graphic-wise I found it to be very bland. Looks more like a PS2 game rather than PS3.

Thought the same, while some of the animation looks incredible, overall, i thought my PS2 would have been able to deliver a similar package!!

I guess it must be, seeing as Core's have no h/d. I vaguely recall the 8 gig is set aside for caching to speed up games, but that seems like a hell of a lot of memory. But I can garauntee that *every* premium console with a 20 gig h/d only has about 13 gig free memory.

The bulk of the lost 8GB on 360's drive is used for backwards compatibility. Waste of time if like me you dont play Xbox 1 games at all on your 360.