Anyone else getting it from EADM? Its absolutely destroying my hard drives, got a couple not too old hitachi's in raid 0 with ssd as main drive. It usually downloads an image as a single normal file from EADM, then you can choose to install as and when you want but this seems to be, judging from resource monitor, downloading it all into a zip file, then extracting it and installing at the same time as the install folder is filling up rather than anywhere else. Also judging by all the files open and being writen to, rather than do one file at a time it seems to be taking bytes of data from a dozen files at the same time.
So basically constant random tiny file writing all over the drive, which would make sense with all the massive amount of chugging its doing, by chugging I mean that horrible noise HDD's do when they are under stupid workload of mostly tiny files.
Why EA are downloading it like that rather than a nice continuous zip file I have no freaking clue, my cache is actually set on a separate backup drive and its set to download there, but its completely ignoring it, just downloading it as an installed game it seems.
It also managed to ask before download what language to install in, yet is still downloading all the language packs, truly retarded, no idea why, every other dl from EA, including Crysis 1 earlier, has been great. The only upside is (with roughly 10-12mbit connection) its maxing my download out at 1MB/s easily, Steam is almost always slow as all hell on a game release, Assasins Creed Brotherhood on steam was a nightmare.
