I responded to a Reddit thread years ago of someone asking if an SSD would speed up their PS3. I was down voted because I said it would, but brainlets on reddit said the SATA speeds would make it not be any faster. Go figure then a non moving drive is faster than a moving drive. Who'd thunk that. Great video!

@curtis8516

21 күн бұрын

And it runs cooler. More reliable, too. Stuffed one in my PS2 for OPL. Box-art loads instantly!

@LoneWolff892

20 күн бұрын

​@@curtis8516You can use an ssd on the ps2? I have one but never opened it up. Mine is slim

@dln.sweeney

20 күн бұрын

@@LoneWolff892 You need an adapter to make it work but it has an expansion bay that fits an IDE or SATA drive.

@KiraSlith

20 күн бұрын

Did you miss the part where SSDs were hecking expensive back then? The bump in load times wasn't big enoug to justify a ludicrously expensive 128gb SSD over getting dramatically more space for less with a 500gb HDD. Yeah, physics, obviously, but also the price you paid for what you got back then was a big consideration.

@KohaiJr

20 күн бұрын

@@KiraSlith This was like in 2016, they weren't particularly expensive back then. I can't find the exact thread I was on but go look up the thread "A question regarding hard drives 2016" people were saying that.

Worth it alone for how snappy and responsive it makes the XMB & MultiMan menus. Especially if you have a ton of ISO's archived.

@ll3yWanTeD

Жыл бұрын

Yeahh that's it bruh

@TheDunbartxeen

Ай бұрын

That's it and of course, noise

@miregoji2959

24 күн бұрын

​@@TheDunbartxeen Well until you realize the PS3 is SATA1 and its all in your head that it's any faster.

@TheDunbartxeen

24 күн бұрын

@@miregoji2959 I know the limit of SATA1, SSD still is way faster than a HDD in a PS3. It is not breathtaking but noticable.

@immalkah

24 күн бұрын

@@miregoji2959 the xmb is noticeably faster with an ssd regardless of the board using sata1.

2006...My God, that seems like a lifetime ago. Though it was at the tail end, I so miss the sixth console generation.

@sonicstarman9663

Жыл бұрын

I sorta miss the High School arguments of why PS3 was better than 360 at the time. Of course I'm not as close minded to Xbox now. But back then I was all in on PS3. I mostly just liked being different in school.

@dannydorito4675

Ай бұрын

​@@sonicstarman9663 😂😂 I was the same way but I really did love playstation back then. The ps2 and ps3 were the first consoles I bought with my own money

@SuperFlashDriver

26 күн бұрын

@@sonicstarman9663 I was a person who owned a Nintendo Wii, and it was worth it. Considering the longevity and least expensive route compared to the Xbox 360 and PS3's issues were on the console, The Nintendo Wii would be the last console I would ever get in the 7th generation, before I moved on to COD Black Ops 1 in 2011, and then eventually PC gaming in 2015 and never looked back.

@sonicstarman9663

25 күн бұрын

@@SuperFlashDriver I'm definitely more of a Nintendo and PC guy now. Other than Nintendo, SEGA, Square Enix and sometimes Bandai Namco, Insomniac and Capcom, and other Sony studios, I don't care about most triple a games. Most of the games I play on my PC, are older games that I missed out on or indie games that would more than likely appeal to a Nintendo fan. I still go back to consoles sometimes mostly because I prefer Linux over Windows. Steam Proton is awesome. But it's still hit or miss outside of Steam.

@SuperFlashDriver

25 күн бұрын

@@sonicstarman9663 Yeah. I used to be a Nintendo fan on their consoles but I stopped buying them after the Nintendo Wii. Linux on the other hand I have not tried out yet so that's something I've yet to ssee and check out someday.

Why does KZread NOW recommend this?? This is what I’d like to see day of.

@pathfindercast

23 күн бұрын

In the last few days this video seemed to gain a bunch new views. I'm guessing the PS3/PS5 news triggered something in the algorithm.

@LarsV62

16 күн бұрын

I had to go to select the gaming tag to see this recommendation, so I doubt it works have been recommended unless I started watching quite a few more gaming related films.

@hfric

12 күн бұрын

@@pathfindercast i will explain , Sony is now working on a PS2\PS3 Emulator on PS5 , if you got the Disc you can play "thing" ... too boost its sales of the console that staggered since new games are awful this days, so they payed YT to boost any PS3\PS2 video... simple , now any PS3\PS2 vid does crazy numberos ... even i can see that on my side

One thing I saw when I upgraded to a ssd on my ps3, when using heavy titles like GTAV or metal Gear 4/5 and black ops 2 was instant texture pop in. Where all the game assets loaded properly and quickly. Also load time diminished.

Ps3 is such a great console even today so many great games to go back and play

@perkulant4629

26 күн бұрын

It’s a terrible console with a great library of games. Plagued with issues. Xbox 360 was the same though. Bad generation for reliability.

@Psych0technic

25 күн бұрын

Yes, it only just takes a mere 7 hours to install gran Turismo 6. PS3 always was a deeply flawed piece of hardware with usability issues. Thankfully, pretty much every noteworthy game it had was rereleased and improved on PS4.

@DragonOfTheMortalKombat

24 күн бұрын

Such a great console that it never got forwards compatibility with PS4 or 5 because of it's wierd architecture lol. It was a nightmare to develop for and still is an emulation nightmare.

Another benefit of the SSD is the thermals. Mechanical drives generate a lot more heat which the console has to work even harder to dissipate and cool. By using an SSD, you're keeping the internal temps down and prolonging the life of the console and reducing YLOD.

@DragonOfTheMortalKombat

24 күн бұрын

Literally doesn't make any noticeable difference. Your console is constantly working with 100s of watts of heat from the main motherboard alone, so a few watts less will do nothing. It was designed with HDDs so it'll continue to run fine.

@ReverieFlows

22 күн бұрын

@@DragonOfTheMortalKombatYeah but placebo effect make brain happy

@LoneWolff892

20 күн бұрын

​@@ReverieFlows i love your reply.

@ReverieFlows

20 күн бұрын

@@LoneWolff892 I love your reply even more

@r3tr0sp3ct3r

16 күн бұрын

This is just wrong, SSD's run hotter than HDD's.

If you have a backwards compatible, especially an A01 or B01, this makes the most amount of sense for loading up a BUNCH of PS2 games to the internal storage! Makes it where you don’t have to go look for discs or worry about wearing out lasers!

@HollowedCrow

27 күн бұрын

Even if you're running slim models you can back up Ps2 discs and run the games off ISO's stored in the harddrive, its NUTS I was hesitant to upgrade from my fat model because i was misconstrued into believing i would be locked out of PS2 games but she may now rest safely while i run my slim to bone😖

@epidemicmagick

26 күн бұрын

@@HollowedCrow Yeah, but compatibility is a bit hit and miss, around 10% of my PS3 collection doesn't work on my PS3 slim (I have ~180 games, 15-20 have various types of issues, or straight up don't load).

@joemamr710

25 күн бұрын

PS3 compatibility is 100% between the fat and slim models.

@epidemicmagick

25 күн бұрын

@@joemamr710 Sorry, my bad, I meant compatibillity of the PS2 games (and my PS2 collection) on PS3 slim.

@MGrey-qb5xz

22 күн бұрын

i don't get it...

Two things to note about the installation of fear 3. It's either a limitation of the BluRay drive or a limitation of the SATA generation that both HDD and SSD are connected to. It's likely that it's a little of both. Even HDDs saw an improvement in performance shifting from SATA 3 gbps to SATA 6 gbps

Thank you for making this video to compare, I have always been curious on how well an SSD will work in a PS3. Now I have to change my drive out lol

Very well done video : straight to the point, with summary at the end. Thanks Sir!

@pathfindercast

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the nice comment. I am glad you liked the video. Cheers

Good video, informative and concise. Also, thanks for the timestamps.

I had a spare HDD and SSD (both 1tb) laying about and put the HHD in my PS3 slim because I heard that unless games were digital or very hard drive bound, the results are negligible. Granted that was before I got games like GT5 and GT6. Thanks for the video to show differences!

@HearMeLearn

Жыл бұрын

hard drives are serviceable if you don't mind waiting, but if it's capable of taking an ssd you should probably put one in. The only systems that I don't think would benefit from an ssd are really old systems where their slow cpu is the bottleneck, something like a ps2 or older if it has storage. The original xbox also I think would barely benefit at all from an ssd. The main benefit in these cases is just the increased reliability and noise reduction from an ssd

@epidemicmagick

26 күн бұрын

@@HearMeLearn It benefits PS2 as well if you are using OPL, for example, due to seek times.

Exactly what I was looking for! Great video mate!

Good video! I really liked how you showed and told some information about each game!

Nice work! I have a 480GB SSD in my PS3. Load times are good (and the XMB is very snappy). I might try to copy the data into a 2.5-inch HDD (either with the backup utility or Acronis) in order to compare loading times. I don't plan to compare install times thought.

@ll3yWanTeD

Жыл бұрын

Same here. Kingston 480GB SSD brand.🎉

I have a PS3. Thank you for the video. I will go ahead with the SSD installation now. subscribed

I’ve had an SSD in my ps3 for a while now, the ssd REALLY helps with LittleBigPlanet 3. LBP2 also gets helped out with the SSD

@gamerguy425

11 ай бұрын

what good is LBP on PS3 if all the servers are shut down? you making levels to play with your friends locally? playing the story? I just made a track in LBP karting for the first time in like 10 years, but LBP Karting at least does not have a working PS4 game as a replacement.

@w0lf4llo84

11 ай бұрын

@@gamerguy425 there’s custom servers for LBP1, LBP2, LBP3, and LBP Vita. Karting is a WIP.

@Unlucky1776

7 ай бұрын

​@@w0lf4llo84how is it with games like gta5 or the last of us?

@w0lf4llo84

6 ай бұрын

@@Unlucky1776 TLOU I’ve noticed it load in about 5-10 seconds, GTA5 still takes some time to load but if you’re going very fast you won’t deal with objects randomly appearing in front of you as they typically would with the stock HDD.

@Unlucky1776

6 ай бұрын

@@w0lf4llo84 wow 5-10 seconds?! On my base PS3 it takes nearly 5 minutes just to start a chapter...

Great content man! Keep it up! So many awesome details.

I installed an ssd years ago the added benefit is that you have a ton of free space. Remember guys games were a lot smaller (storage) than they are today! I still have the PS3 today and it still works great.

@SuperFlashDriver

26 күн бұрын

Absolutely. Games were below the 10gb/15gb limit for the discs and games, Xbox 360 were usually under 10Gb (near the 7/8gb mark, and Nintendo Wii is near the same amount of gigabytes (4/5gbs) as the ones from the PS2 & Xbox 2001 console (aka Original Xbox, The First Variation of the Xbox console). If there are SSDs you can get that are 4Tbs, you can fit the entire PS3 library, including PS2 and PS1, and still be able to play these games with excellent storage capacity and speed.

@Wally17.

23 күн бұрын

@@SuperFlashDriverThere’s no way you’re fitting the entire PS3 library of games on a 4TB drive.

@SuperFlashDriver

23 күн бұрын

@@Wally17. I have a 10TB/20TB drive if necessary.

@mannyjoseph4520

19 күн бұрын

​@SuperFlashDriver ps3 is limited to under 2TB as it uses MBR. You can use 1tb internal (safer then the 1.5tb mod) and get external hdd to load your isos using webman irisman

@SuperFlashDriver

19 күн бұрын

@@mannyjoseph4520 Ahhh you were talking about the console...Sorry, I must have talked about emulation...Sorry for the confusion. But I would say it would have to be separate TB hard disk drives to switch back and fourth for different game installs then (If I end up having more than twenty games or so to play on the actual PS3 console).

I recently had this question. I vaguely remember finding an answer but I'm glad I was recommended this video. Thank you!

Honestly such a cool video! Thanks for making my day, I woke up to this and took my first cup of coffee 🥰

Even in online gaming on SSD is crazy..

Not too bad, but you can see that the console is unable to fully utilize the SSD.

I installed an SSD in my ps3 super slim in 2015. At that time, I suggested that it was worth it. The SSD I used was a cheap lower end one. The SSD is still in there, working like a champ. Still no issues after all these years. Granted, this all was published on a website that shut down nearly 5 years ago. I'm glad to see that people are trying new things with the devices they have.

Bro is so passionate about games and technology that got me thinking about going back to my PS3 and give it the SSD treatment along with getting a FEAR 3 copy lol Thanks for the video

I fitted a cheap 256GB one years ago, when prices got so low they were peanuts. All modem SATA SSDs would saturate PS3's SATA interface, it was always the random read and write that made PS3 so much faster in XMB. It sped up installation and loading in several games, helping out MGS4 and Gran Turismo 5 in my own tests. GT6 had several infamously huge patches that could crash PS3 if you didn't install one at a time- with an SSD it could manage it all at once.

wow they used Swap Meet by Nirvana in the main menu of Motorstorm Pacific Rift, never noticed that before. Very underrated song

It runs cooler with an SSD.

@zakapholiac9377

13 сағат бұрын

Yes I’ve noticed MUCH less fan noise and you also hear no noise from the Hard Drive as there is no disc in a SSD. XMB is much snappier and the PSN store actually works. Installation of data is WAY faster and I’ve noticed games like Arkham Orgins has less hitching when auto saving. Not a crazy big improvement, but overall the little things all add up and just makes the quality of life experience much better. And SSD’s are so cheap now there isn’t really a reason not too. I got a 1TB Samsung SSD for the PS3 for about 80bucks

I've been pondering this question for years now, thank you.

This was awesome thank you so much for this

Amazing work

@pathfindercast

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Hey Champ, all of my ps3 videos are using the Samsung EVO 870 1tb and I use hardware upscaling too. Last thing, if you want the absolute best from the ps3, the RSX must be overclocked. Ive tried a few and the 750Mhz boost is just excellent 🥊🥊🔥🙏

@gnrtx-36969

Жыл бұрын

Hiii

@JadenMinterO5

Жыл бұрын

How you overclock rsx

@G.H.O.S.T.F.R.E.A.K

8 ай бұрын

@@JadenMinterO5Jailbreaking. You need a CFW (Custom Firmware) with an overclocked edition. Preferably EVILNATS 4.90 CEX or DEX Overclocked Edition.

Bro is just out here doing gamer science and being a wholesome individual. Keep it up 🫡

great video thanks mate

Great test! 15~30 seconds per load time it's great!

I enjoy how you have a little snippet of info and your own opinion with every game you use, Infamous 1 and 2 are great ways to look at the ps3 development life considering infamous 1 was a release title and infamous released near the end of the ps3 life cycle. The ps3 architecture was tricky and took longer to learn how it works compared to other consoles. I also suggest you play them in order, the story would make more sense

@pathfindercast

15 күн бұрын

Thanks. I want to play both games all the way through.

I recently upgraded my PS3 with an SSD and although it only makes a marginal difference to load times due to SATA 1 speeds, it makes a MASSIVE difference to both the snappiness of the XMB and level streaming in game. When playing GTA 4, it used to take about 7 seconds to load in everything around me and nothing would load in when travelling at massive speeds, now everything loads almost instantaneously and traversal stutter is completely gone

upgraded mine modded to 1TB SSD. love it

Big work. Thank you.

For a 512gb ssd for only 20 bucks I said why not? Jus last week I started thinking of updating the old 250 drive.

This is the best video about this topic

What lots of people dont talk about is the fact that while the PS3 has a SATA port its actually converted from USB 3.0 So you are getting really slow speeds from that SATA slot. Maybe a PS3 Slim fixed it giving native SATA but i doubt it. Second, one of biggest benefits of using a SSD is going to the PS store and navigation everything is smooth as butter while the HDD takes forever to load stuff up and menus are chugging alone. Lastly what no one online talks about is Textures. Look at a game like boarderlands or something that is trying to stream data. You will have things loading in late. With an SSD everything loads in clear. The PS3 was an interesting system that quite frankly got cut back to save money that it really hurt it in the end. Im more excited to see emulation in the next 5 years making these games run like they should have.

I cannot express enough how much I love that shirt.

@pathfindercast

7 ай бұрын

Thanks. It was swag from a tech conference I went to a while ago.

Hey OP, while loading from the disc vs SSD, were you loading the disc with an HDD installed, or an SSD? Playing Payday 2 with a disc + SSD in my PS3, I still load into an online map much faster than everyone else.

@pathfindercast

Жыл бұрын

Great question. I did have an HDD installed, but it was completely full and therefore no disc space for the game. I would imagine that loading from disc + SDD with enough free space would give some performance improvements.

This is a great video, it's what sold me on grabbing an SSD for my PS3 rather than relying on the stock drive. I ended up grabbing a 512GB one and it fits every single game I ever wanted to play on it! Regarding the Gran Turismo 6 portion where the icons load in, playing Destiny on PS3 is the same way. Pressing start opens the menu, where by default on the HDD all the icons slowly load in and make the system laggy until they're finished. On SSD, they load in nearly instantly, letting me swap weapons in under a second. It's life-changing!

5200rpm HDD really does drag compared to solid state Certain instances seem to also be limited by the CPU and ram prioritizations due to the PS3's optimization.

Great video! at the time you released it i could very well have been doing similar testing on an xbox one x with an SSD, a mechanical drive, and a hybrid which leads me to a little bit of constructive criticism (whether or not you've changed things since, i do not know, so this could be void now) and that's with the testing from booting the game to gameplay, which whilst still being a very valid real-world test (as sometimes you just want to jump into a game) i find it flawed due to the often unskippable intros, and the navigation of menus. I find it better to split it into 2 separate tasks (boot to main menu, and from clicking play to being in game) as this more accurately represents the load times which you will encounter much more frequently (e.g. you beat a level and go onto the next, or die and re-load) and as such i consider it a more important metric, and because it cuts out the unavoidable intros and shows you the actual performance difference of the drives

Great video

good job great work

Never cracked the ps3 kinda, so now I guess I should do that also

this guy looks so friendly, i like him

there's other benefits besides loading times. when GTAV released, i couldn't even properly play it on the PS3. pop-ins while driving made it unplayable. whole buildings and trees would just appear out of nowhere, because of how slow the old HDD streamed data. threw in an SSD, and i was able to play the game to completion just fine.

@pathfindercast

Жыл бұрын

that's cool.

@hunterinfected6

10 ай бұрын

What model ps3 did you have?

I know this video is a year old, but I had read sometime towards the end of the PS3 lifespan that in addition to some quicker load times as you demonstrated here, that games that requires swap space for assets stored on the drive would show benefits as well. I remember the first RAGE when I played it and still had a spinning HDD in the PS3. The texture load in alone was pretty brutal in that game. But after putting in the SSD, the texture loads were almost non existent. I'be bee installing SSDs in most all of my storage based consoles since. Including one in my PS4 Pro and even my PS2. Am I getting the performance of the SSD on most of these consoles? No, but the added benefits you have shown in addition to many other mentioned in previous comments are why I did.

Very cool. I wonder, does it affect the overall quality of life? Like in the home menus or pop in, in games? The loading times seem good when you consider how snappy we are used to modern games. Anything helps lol. I had put a ssd in my Xbox one x. I was having issues with the menus loading and overall quality of life got to be a chore. With the ps3 super slim I have, I got it off eBay but they never mentioned it was missing the hdd and the bracket so atm I have my old Xbox hdd in my ps3 and I 3d printed a bracket. Def thinking about upgrading it to a ssd.

Can u test Modnation Racer load times? That the game that I know have really long loading times per race.

If you like Infamous 2 then you should try the DLC Blood Festival. I think at time of writing it is still able to be purchased/downloaded.

@pathfindercast

Жыл бұрын

Cool. I will look for it.

@SC-lc7tm

5 ай бұрын

i just borught the infamous collection on ps3 store. i know i had infamous and infamous 2. some reason infamous stopped working, so i brought hte collection to have festival and all the other dlcs

Great video.

@pathfindercast

17 күн бұрын

Thanks!

The best way to play Infamous is mostly in order: Infamous, Infamous 2, Infamous: Festival of Blood, Infamous: First Light, Infamous: Second Son 😊

@pathfindercast

15 күн бұрын

oooh. I didn't realize there were five release. Looking them up now. Thanks!

Nice Video

My brother was an early adopter of SSDs....he had a 32GB SSD but he didn't pay $699 for it...I think he bought it when it was like $300...I thought he was crazy for paying $300 for 32GB when you could get like a 250GB or 320GB mechanical drive for about half that....but at the same time I wasn't into PC gaming at that time....What I used a PC for was very light...web browsing, listening to music and watching videos. About 6 years ago I got into PC gaming and realized how important an SSD really is...I had a laptop with a 512GB SSD and 1TB mechanical drive and put my AAA games on the SSD and put stuff like emulators, ROMs, music and movies on the mechanical drive. Now I just have an SSD in my laptop and just need more space for everything I do on it...

I have updated my console with a 1tb hhd but the games cutscenes are glitching! Game runs perfect just cutscenes!! Do you think it's the new hhd and changing to a ssd would fix the issue?

Anyone know if it has anything to do with BC PS2 Games . I installed ssd into my ps3 . Redownloaded ps2 data utility. Now the screen goes black . If I use component cables it will chirp sound blink the screen then nothing. Put the old HDD back and same thing now .

For GT 6 in practice you might not notice that much, the game loads the map as you tune your car, so if you are used to tuning your car before racing, it will be almost instantaneously, just try it, open the start race menu and wait a few seconds before pressing to start, it will take less time to load as it would have already loaded part of it

I installed an SSD into my PS3 back in 2010 using a 128Gb. System remained cooler longer, faster install & level load times, less jaggies, & smoother gameplay. I installed an SSD in my base & Pro PS4 as well.

I have only had the stock HHD in my ps3, and have never really even used it. I've always played my games from the disc. If you have the games saved on the hard drive, do you have to have the disc in?

@pathfindercast

Жыл бұрын

On the stock firmware the disc is required. On custom firmware, you can use multiman or webman to copy the disc to the drive and launch the game with no disc.

@freighttrain10

Жыл бұрын

@@pathfindercast thanks!

hm Nice Video And Good Work but how it will take long to play GTA IV in a ssd from an hdd that would be epic

@pathfindercast

Жыл бұрын

Great question, I just picked up both GTA IV and V for ps3 this week. I have yet to test them.

hi, well long time ago with a slim console i made an hdd upgrade replaces with an mx500, some games like syrim had some improvment, such as graphica texturel loading better , everything sounded so smooth...:)

I have a question, which SSD did you use? Is it the one in the thumbnail, would love to know. Thanks. ( oups nevermind I just saw your previous video that answered my question )

@pathfindercast

Жыл бұрын

Cool, I hope you enjoyed the videos. Yah it was a cheap SSD I purchased from Amazon amzn.to/3WFpVNF

@Ivaylo-YT

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the info, I really appreciate it, keep up the good work with the videos btw.

I'm curious about the loadings, or in game loads of certain RPGs that had a lot of menus or small images that sometimes lagged behind. Or some RPGs that would sometimes have stuttering issues. I'm wondering based on how the menu icons showed up near instantly on GT.

I installed an SSD (1TB Crucial MX500) in my PS4 at the end of 2020 and have been happy with it. So last summer, when I spotted the 500GB model of the MX500 selling for just £30 on Amazon UK, I thought I'd upgrade my PS3 Slims 160GB HDD. And I've been happy with the results, like the PS4 the PS3 UI feels, for lack of a better term, snappier on an SSD. It was cheap enough where I figured it would be worth it either way, and as I run stock OS (ie not CFW), 500GB is plenty of space for me personally. When I did the backup & restore, I only had about 40-50GB of data, so was able to use a 64GB USB stick. It took about 2.5hrs for the backup then 90m for the restore. I know that with an SSD you may eventually run into issues, due to the lack of TRIM support. But personally I always keep save backups etc. so it's less of a concern and you could always do a backup to a spare USB HDD and then restore that, if/when you ran into issues. Also for those on CFW looking to maximise the storage, there's conflicting info whether the PS3 supports max of 1TB or 1.5TB. But a 1TB HDD or SSD is probably a safer bet. As for what SSD to pick, some will suggest any cheap SSD as the PS3 is only SATA 1, but I'm not so sure. Cheaper SSDs typically have no DRAM cache, which can effect performance & lifespan, and may even have slower writes than a HDD. All I can say is my PS3 & PS4 run well on the MX500 drives, so those are what I'll typically recommend.

i am curious to know if the SSD solves texture pop in - in games like BF3

@Tanzu15

3 ай бұрын

Yes it does. For tons of games. It’s overall superior.

I wonder if there are some minor performance improvements as well such as the speed of loading in textures on the fly.

Been thinking of getting an ssd for my ps3 for a while now ever since collecting games for the system a few years ago

It's a freaking massive improvement. So much so a few games actually perform better due to less loading pauses dragging the minimums down. It's incredible and totally worth it if you love your PS3. Get one with high endurance. I got a 500GB 860 Evo for mine and it should last the life of the console with care.

I dont care loading times , thats when you drink beer. :)

are you playing using the disc with hdd/ssd or iso off hdd and ssd cobra cfw style

@pathfindercast

11 ай бұрын

I am using cobra cfw and multiman

3:19 That kind of reminds me of Fable 2 on X360. The difference between playing it off the DVD and off the HDD. With the DVD, the menus would stutter with every single item. While with the HDD, the menus were completely smooth.

when you are copying the disc your not testing the hdd/ssd writes. your comparing the disc read speed right?

I know what my next project is going to be.

I installed a ssd in my ps3 too. The big thing holding back the ssd speed is the ps3 sata controller which a sata I. The iops are way better than a spinning hdd.

I just put one in my ps3 because retired my sata ssd from my pc cuz I got an m.2 that's 2tb cheap. So having more space than default is going to be nice in ps3

That's crazy man

Considering how inexpensive SSDs are now, it's definitely worth it. Beyond improving loading times, it eliminates the lag that occurs when populating menu lists in both the XMB and in-game. No more disk seek!

@3750gustavo

23 күн бұрын

The size of the hardrive would also affect the performance, he did not mention if the HD used was brand new or the size and rpm speeds on the video, if you tried to pick the fastest HD drive at the max supported size for the ps3, the difference in performance should become minimal as the cap becomes the conector, I believe the ps3 must use something equivalent to a IDE conector with 150mbs or a sata 2 with 300mbs

what is the maximum size possible regarding internal SSD /HDD in the PS3 ??? 1To ? 2 To ?

I would love to upgrade all 5 of my PlayStations. An SSD for my 3 and 5 is definitely top of the list.

My PS3 was great until it died. Then I got it fixed, and then it died again. Then I got a new PS3, but it looked like it would die again. Great games, terrible hardware.😞

The main question I have is this: what kind of SSD did you purchase? Was it one with a DRAM Cache and high quality NAND? Or was it a cheap no-name SSD. Because some SSDs can perform worse than a hard drive if they’re made too cheaply.

@mindrover777

4 күн бұрын

That depends on your budget. Do some research before the purchase.

@wittywilla

4 күн бұрын

@@mindrover777 around $30 can get you a good sata SSD with either a dram or slc cache. But, the market is also flooded with extremely poorly made ssds that sometimes are slower than a hard drive. No matter the budget, I was just curious on which one was used in the video. Also, to anybody seeing this: do not buy any WD Blue SATA SSDs - after having to deal with the horrendous speeds while trying to explain to friends and customers about why their computer is being slow with a newly purchased SSD, I had explain this exact principle.

This upgrade has 2 other bonuses that makes it worth it the XMB Menu works better but also games perform slightly better not just loading faster but actually playing closer to what they should've played as since the console doesn't have to allocate as many resources to loading the game anymore once its loaded its loaded

Infamous and Infamous 2 are just about my favorite games on the PS3. Yes, I highly recommend you play Infamous (the original) in addition to its sequel ! It would make more sense to play them in order for the storyline. It's not 100% necessity IMO

Where gone over 100gb after installation 1tb ssd on ps3? 1024gb -> 830gb ?

why is the ps logo on your ps3 missing? just wondering

@pathfindercast

Жыл бұрын

I purchased it used and it was missing. Pretty boring, I wish I had a better story to tell. Thanks for watching my video.

I got an SSD just so the XMB would quit stuttering, the hard drives used even in the PS3 slims are way way worse than the ones eventually used in the PS4. The loading times in games are not that bad but it's the responsiveness that really counts

I have a sony Frankenstein backwards compatible ps3 with oc cfw and a 1tb ssd. Makes the ps3 run like you remember not like how it actually does

I already knew the result however I wonder if using a newer spinning rust would have lowered the load times.

Interesting. I upgraded my PS3 Super Slim with a 7200 RPM HDD a few years ago. I didn't have a lot to spend and I wanted more storage. Also, I found some old Digital Foundry tests that suggested you'd get most of the potential benefits by upgrading to a better HDD and an SSD wouldn't be much faster due to the limitations of the system. I'd be curious to see the SSD compared to a faster HDD.

unrelated question, but how do you get such quick speeds with filezilla? when i do my transfers, it usually never gets past 1mb

@pathfindercast

13 күн бұрын

Are you connected wired or wireless? I am connected with wired 1gb LAN. Not sure if that makes the difference.

@shamblum

13 күн бұрын

@pathfindercast I am connected wireless. Is your LAN cable connected to the ps3 or the computer?

Long time ago back in 2013 a PS3 super slim and internal ssd was a must back then and I used a 128 gb

Tekken tag 2 was pain in the ass of loading.

You should try installing Gran Turismo 6 with the SSD vs with the harddrive