So what is the game actually installing? Around 2,000 files end up on the PS3 in total: around 50 per cent of the main game data and around 10 per cent of DLC data included on the disc. Time-lapse video allows you to check out each of our testing runs without having to wait a couple of hours as we did. To illustrate the testing, here's a video of each run, sped up by a factor of 100. Freeing up a further 2GB of space on the drive and repeating the process again brought us to 32 minutes - around the same as the "rather unscientific 30 minutes" reported yesterday by TheSixthAxis. The result was intriguing: the installation time fell to just a few seconds short of 38 minutes, a mammoth 14 minute saving. To begin with, an additional 5GB of space was freed up on the 60GB drive and the Mass Effect 2 install was removed, then installed again. Taken aback somewhat by this record-breaking install time, we decided to investigate and found that the more spare storage available on our drive, the faster the install time. Either Digital Foundry's PlayStation 3 debugging station is in desperate need of a new hard drive or else Mass Effect 2 can take anything up to 52 minutes to install for a relatively paltry 4272MB of data, not including the additional downloaded DLC.
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