If you do not hack your console you are a lib.
If it can be hacked there is a good chance that I have done it and can help you.
Open the world of homebrew, emulators, and easy game piracy.
Your warranty is now void.
If you do not hack your console you are a lib.
If it can be hacked there is a good chance that I have done it and can help you.
Open the world of homebrew, emulators, and easy game piracy.
Your warranty is now void.
It's pretty trivial to replace the HDD in PS3s with a much larger SSD, right? I might try to pick up an original model PS3 and jailbreak it, dump all my disc-based games to the drive, and do nothing but play PS2 games.
Yeah I've basically done this. Though I'd recommend a normal hard drive over a SSD, the PS3's SATA interface from 2006 can't really take advantage of an SSD.
The PS3 has, what, a SATA II interface? Tops out around 300MBps? That's still more than a HDD can do, and random reads will be orders of magnitude faster.
Nah it uses SATA I, tops out at 150MBps. You're right it will be faster on random reads and there will be a performance improvement, but it's not worth it for me personally. I'm not going to spend more on a SSD than I spent on the actual console.
I feel you. I just have a 500GB SSD I paid like $60 for that I'm not using. If it weren't for SMR I'd be willing to look at HDDs but I wouldn't want to get an SMR drive on accident and have abysmal performance.
Yeah that will work perfectly. PS2 games already see a massive improvement in loading times on a hard drive compared to the 4x DVD drive of a PS2 at 5.28MBps, so I can't imagine how fast it will be on a SSD. You'll see the most difference in game install time, that's actually a huge improvement.