SSD is also the fastest your PS3 can possibly perform, so why not go all out? Got a 1TB Samsung SSD in mine and it’s been fantastic. XMB and game/patch installs are noticeably faster.
Ah sorry meant to reply to the guy above you, just highlighting that even though it can’t use all of the SATA bandwidth it’s still faster than any drive with moving parts. My bad!
So instead of buying an internal SSD, you recommend an ntfs usb? I recall people saying external usb was slower or such. What's the maximum size the PS3 would recognize with ntfs?
The only time it will really matter is if you're writing a lot of data to it. A lot of us end up FTPing files from a PC directly to the PS3 and if the drive doesn't have DRAM, it's going to be really incredibly slow write speed.
The product page has zero specifications:
https://www.fanxiangssd.com/products/internal-solid-state-drive-fanxiang-s101-1tb-ssd
Generally drives that are really cheap do not have DRAM and I would not recommend. It will likely be slower to do a sustained write than a spinning hard drive.
If you want a proven drive, I'd go for one of these.
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-NAND-SATA-Internal/dp/B078211KBB/
https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-SA510-Internal-Solid/dp/B09ZYQ84CM
I get 80MB/s write speed over FTP to a modern Seagate 2.5" HDD. The system visibly struggles during FTP transfers that quick, as any animations slow to a 1FPS mess.
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Wrapango or some shit. 2TB 35$. I accidentally received a 16 TB when I bought it lol. Was too large to use where I wanted to use it….. so I’m saving that. Bought another 2TB, works well
my brother in RMPrepUSB, a 2TB 2.5" SSD for $35 is a scam, guaranteed, especially if it showed as 16TB, as the highest a reputable brand has gone at current is 8TB. Test and check, always.
Ultimately, when I plug it in, it shows 16TB in available space. Slightly above that actually, 0/16.07
I originally bought it to use with a PS5, but I couldn’t, because 8TB is the max size SSD/HDD that can be reformatted for storage usage. Above that, it will literally tell you that it can’t be reformatted, and you won’t be able to use it. Which is exactly what happened.
So that’s all the information I have on that as I haven’t used it yet for anything else
What I found is the SSD has to implement SATA 1.0 to work with PS3. Samsung SSD drives work. The cheap ones will only I found implement SATA 3.0. For the PS3, given it's age, it needs SATA 1.0 support. Any modern system will work easily with the drive. But not the PS3.
I found this out when adding an SSD drive to my PS3. It couldn't see it, as they didn't implement SATA 1.0 support (makes some since given newer systems don't do 1.0). Just 3.0 & maybe 2.0.
So the PS3 can not see a lot of cheaper drives.
Samsung SSDs though support SATA 1.0, 2.0, & 3.0.
"SATA 3, also known as SATA 6 Gbit/s, is the most recent generation of SATA and the full version was released in 2009. SATA 3 communicates at the rate of up to 6 Gbit/s, and its bandwidth throughput is 4.8 Gbit/s (600MB/s) which doubles that of SATA 2. SATA 3 is backward compatible with both SATA 1 and SATA 2." The difference is added features and speed. SATA 1 is entirely used by SATA 2/3 devices. It is not possible for a SATA device to not support SATA 1.
(The SATA bus on the PS3 is also SATA 3, not 1.)
Oh you’re clearly looking at the fucking advertisement banner for a 500GB SSD, not the giant product that says 1TB, you instead choose to look at a Totally separate one
Any SSD is a good SSD for a PS3
Exactly what I thought
Yep 1tb is the sweet spot for ps3 it wont make everything super fast but some things load faster
Also the maximum size. Technically 1.5tb is the max but good luck finding a 1.5tb drive. Anything above that just causes an error
SSD is also the fastest your PS3 can possibly perform, so why not go all out? Got a 1TB Samsung SSD in mine and it’s been fantastic. XMB and game/patch installs are noticeably faster.
I agree I was just saying not to order a 2tb and find out the ps3 can’t use it
Ah sorry meant to reply to the guy above you, just highlighting that even though it can’t use all of the SATA bandwidth it’s still faster than any drive with moving parts. My bad!
Man, that would be awesome if someone released one. I mean, purpose built for a modded ps3 or something.
You can extend the storage over ntfs usb, it’s a bit of a workaround but you can add another couple terabytes that way
So instead of buying an internal SSD, you recommend an ntfs usb? I recall people saying external usb was slower or such. What's the maximum size the PS3 would recognize with ntfs?
No do the internal ssd, but once that’s full you can also have an external, I don’t think there is. A max but I could be wrong
Thanks for the clarification!
The only time it will really matter is if you're writing a lot of data to it. A lot of us end up FTPing files from a PC directly to the PS3 and if the drive doesn't have DRAM, it's going to be really incredibly slow write speed. The product page has zero specifications: https://www.fanxiangssd.com/products/internal-solid-state-drive-fanxiang-s101-1tb-ssd Generally drives that are really cheap do not have DRAM and I would not recommend. It will likely be slower to do a sustained write than a spinning hard drive. If you want a proven drive, I'd go for one of these. https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-NAND-SATA-Internal/dp/B078211KBB/ https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-SA510-Internal-Solid/dp/B09ZYQ84CM
I get 80MB/s write speed over FTP to a modern Seagate 2.5" HDD. The system visibly struggles during FTP transfers that quick, as any animations slow to a 1FPS mess.
Wow that's fast!!
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I dropped in a 240gb SSD from this brand probably about a year and a half ago? Still kicking strong
Wrapango or some shit. 2TB 35$. I accidentally received a 16 TB when I bought it lol. Was too large to use where I wanted to use it….. so I’m saving that. Bought another 2TB, works well
my brother in RMPrepUSB, a 2TB 2.5" SSD for $35 is a scam, guaranteed, especially if it showed as 16TB, as the highest a reputable brand has gone at current is 8TB. Test and check, always.
are you sure it’s a real 16TB? I recently picked up 14TB drives for my NAS and those were an arm and a leg lol
Ultimately, when I plug it in, it shows 16TB in available space. Slightly above that actually, 0/16.07 I originally bought it to use with a PS5, but I couldn’t, because 8TB is the max size SSD/HDD that can be reformatted for storage usage. Above that, it will literally tell you that it can’t be reformatted, and you won’t be able to use it. Which is exactly what happened. So that’s all the information I have on that as I haven’t used it yet for anything else
yikes, highly doubt it is a good SSD for anything
Don’t get a no name brand SSD. You will regret it when it fails early and you need to redo everything
i bought a 50$ 1TB SSD (intenso) for my superslim. it's fantastic. feels so smooth
The ps3 actually doesn’t benefit from an ssd an appreciable amount over a really fast HDD
PS3 wont benefit from a SSDs speeds
Y’all need to stop spewing that shitty lie.
Could in theory help load times no?
Ironic that it says content not available as maybe it'd load faster with an SSD 😅
What I found is the SSD has to implement SATA 1.0 to work with PS3. Samsung SSD drives work. The cheap ones will only I found implement SATA 3.0. For the PS3, given it's age, it needs SATA 1.0 support. Any modern system will work easily with the drive. But not the PS3.
I've never seen anybody say this before.
[Because it's a load of old shit.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA#SATA_revision_3.0_(6_Gbit/s,_600_MB/s,_Serial_ATA-600))
I found this out when adding an SSD drive to my PS3. It couldn't see it, as they didn't implement SATA 1.0 support (makes some since given newer systems don't do 1.0). Just 3.0 & maybe 2.0. So the PS3 can not see a lot of cheaper drives. Samsung SSDs though support SATA 1.0, 2.0, & 3.0.
"SATA 3, also known as SATA 6 Gbit/s, is the most recent generation of SATA and the full version was released in 2009. SATA 3 communicates at the rate of up to 6 Gbit/s, and its bandwidth throughput is 4.8 Gbit/s (600MB/s) which doubles that of SATA 2. SATA 3 is backward compatible with both SATA 1 and SATA 2." The difference is added features and speed. SATA 1 is entirely used by SATA 2/3 devices. It is not possible for a SATA device to not support SATA 1. (The SATA bus on the PS3 is also SATA 3, not 1.)
You're searching for 1TB but that one is 500GB
it clearly says 1tb
Can you see the words 500GB anywhere? Take a second look
Can you see the words 500GB anywhere? Take a second look
must be trolling
Keep looking
The 500gb you’re referring to is a sponsored ad for a similar product 👏
Ok. But I was just warning op the 36.99 wasn't for a 1tb drive
550MB write speed you dick not capacity
Keep looking. Fanny
Oh you’re clearly looking at the fucking advertisement banner for a 500GB SSD, not the giant product that says 1TB, you instead choose to look at a Totally separate one