2.5 SATA Solid State Disk for PS3.

[capcom_suicide]

Has Anyone tried a 2.5 SATA solid state disk in the PS3 yet?

It's a pretty fast technology, and I would think games that allow install will have a huge boost.

I wonder if it should just work, as it presents as a standard SATA disk to the Bios?

[dvdmike]

Are they not too fast ? plus they are really small and expansive atm

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Are they not too fast ? plus they are really small and expansive atm

They are quite expensive, but offer much faster read/write times, so for the games that install to Hard Disk, they will be dynamite*

*If the PS3 can use them....

When you say "Too fast" I'm not sure I follow.

XP boots in 10 seconds on the disk, which is fast, but I don't think it's too fast.

[ExpertKing]

£500 for a 64G drive,...ouch

[dvdmike]

The PS3 does not like fast transfer rates I thought

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The PS3 does not like fast transfer rates I thought

Now I'm on the same page. That's interesting.

I also seem to bomb out when I use a decent gigabit switch with my PS3.

I have the home server on full duplex Giga, and a decicated switch which runs native 1Gbs FD. I have to turn the PS3 port to 100Mbs FD as music copying fails with an obscure message after 20-30mb transfer. Almost like it was too fast for the PS3.

Maybe this is the actual OS that isn't friendly to fast transfer.

Odd.

[k0pp0]

Now I'm on the same page. That's interesting.

I also seem to bomb out when I use a decent gigabit switch with my PS3.

I have the home server on full duplex Giga, and a decicated switch which runs native 1Gbs FD. I have to turn the PS3 port to 100Mbs FD as music copying fails with an obscure message after 20-30mb transfer. Almost like it was too fast for the PS3.

Maybe this is the actual OS that isn't friendly to fast transfer.

Odd.

Try setting the PS3 to auto detect the speed, along with setting the same on the switch. Apparently it works better?!?

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Try setting the PS3 to auto detect the speed, along with setting the same on the switch. Apparently it works better?!?

Thanks bud.

I started at auto, and then tried:

1000 Full
1000 Half
100 Full
100 Half

100 full was the one to work for me.

I tried the same settings on the port and the Ps3.

Just did some googling and it turned up some odd info about the Vista Firewall (My Home server runs Vista Ultimate) and that it may actually be the windows firewall causing issues. I'll try turning it off and see.

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Whooops... made a bit of a silly mistake with the Network....

It seems that I had an old Cat5 cable from server to switch. Just swapped it with a cat 5e and all is fine on Auto, at 1Gbs.

181Mb albmum done in about 20 secs.

Sorted.

I'll try out the flash disk if I don't find any Bios issues.

If it can transfer data this fast over 5e I reckon it will be cool with SSD too.

Sorry for the geeky thread guys....

[Number45]

I'd do some research about the heat generation before doing this - if it generates a considerable amount of heat then you have the potential for issues I would think.

[EvilBoris]

They barely give off any heat.