Quote Originally Posted by bungiefanNA View Post
The PS2 HDD wasn't filled up, the 8 GB partition on the 40 GB drive was filled up. They have since expanded the partition size for the game, and changed how the PS2 processes updates. When Heroes of Abyssea came out, the actual data files for the PS2 version were just over 4 GB, but the system wasn't deleting all the old temporary files from patches. Now the partition has 10 GB of space allocated to it, and they haven't added much in the way of new files.
Thanks for the clarification but it leaves me with a question. The PS2 HDD never really was used for anything else at all (as far as I recall). It was marketed and sold with FFXI and never lived up to it's expected uses. So, why not make the full drive available for the game?