| It takes pressure off the disc drive. IE: won't read as much on read-heavy games, making it less likely your DVD-drive will break.
My system is from Fall 06 and has gone through more than heavy use. Never had a RRoD, but the dvd drive is slowly dying. Many of the early ones went bad prematurely, but most people RR'd before getting the DVD issues (this is why you get "Disc is dirty or damaged" errors with games that are neither). |