Permanently install those small patches into hard drive

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My son opened his original Xbox HD and placed it beside his PlayStations 3 and 4 and Xbox 360 and is concerned he may have damaged the Hard Drives within those 3 consoles due the magnetic field from the permanent magnets of the open hard drive.. he thought the magnets may be large enough to destroy parts of the data, his profile and electrons. We have been trying to find out how strong these permanent magnets are and if they may have created damage.

we have been told that these permanent magnets are too small to do any damage and if damage does occur it would be with a much larger magnet and that a magnet would clean all information and not be selective of ransom bits or files. Also the drive would no longer boot up, the drive does actually work perfectly well.

My son opened his original Xbox HD and placed it beside his PlayStations 3 and 4 and Xbox 360 and is concerned he may have damaged the Hard Drives within those 3 consoles due the magnetic field from the permanent magnets of the open hard drive.. he thought the magnets may be large enough to destroy parts of the data, his profile and electrons. We have been trying to find out how strong these permanent magnets are and if they may have created damage.

If their are magnets inside a hard drive, surely those same magnets would also be damaging the original hard drive? and not just random bits of other hard drives.

id Software recommends installing the game if you have the room. They specifically say it will reduce loading times and screen pop-in. It will not make a dent in loading times for your saved games, because those are already stored on some form of permanent
media such as a hard drive or flash drive. Installation takes 22 gigabytes of space and about 45 minutes to 1 hour to install. Too bad for PS3 because they require a minimum 8 gigabyte install, but on the otherhand they have 1 game disc.

Updates on the 360 were limited to 8MB each originally, because the original 360s came with no internal storage and the cheaper models came with a small memory unit instead of a hard drive.

On the Xbox One, as every console has a hard drive there are no such restrictions on developers, which is a bit of a double-edged sword. With the 360, devs had to bear in mind that they only had 8MB to play with before the game even shipped and they would
have to make sure their patches were super tight (in terms of coding), but it also limited developers a few times due to the small file size limit.

The Xbox One has been designed to be used in "instant on" mode with a broadband connection, so many of the patches and updates should be downloaded and installed while the console is in sleep mode. It can be a bit of a pain for people with slow broadband
though, particularly when you install a disc-based game for the first time as it will also check for (and download) any patches that are available at that point.