Post: 3.5" SATA HDD Mod
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07-23-2011, 09:49 PM
#1
FireWire
I'm done here.
If you're like me, my 60GB PS3 does not have the storage capacity that I require. I am running Yellow
Dog Linux and I'm going to need more room on the HD for installs and files that I want locally. That
little 10GB partition the PS3 XMB is using is going quick; all those demos and videos that the Sony
store is dumping is really beginning to add up. Not only that, what about my music and PS1 downloads
for the PSP.
I already have a DIY NAS server at home. My server has a P4 2.8Ghz, 1GB ram, GbE NIC and 1TB of
storage. It does SMB/CIFS, NFS, FTP, HTTP and RSYNC, yadda, yadda, yadda. It's freaking fast but
using the PS3's Web browser sucks at the moment so for now while I am waiting to be able mount my
server's disk to the PS3's XMB I'm going to upgrade the PS3's HDD. Forget Team Xecuter's lame PS3
HDD mod (sorry Team Xecuter). They have not said anything about it for some time and it looks
fugly.
I'll provide at least one simple solution using a 3.5" SATA HD. 3.5" drives are all around much much
faster, cheaper and larger than 2.5" laptop HDD's like the one installed in your PS3. No the 3.5" drive
will not fit in to your PS3...
Towards the bottom of the page is for people who want bigger, better, faster equipment; developers,
researchers, hackers, modders, pirates, music and movie freaks apply.
Simple 3.5" HDD Mod Requirements
■ Your brain (or a borrowed one from a retarded baby monkey).
■ Enough of #1 to figure out how to remove the OEM HDD. (If you can't figure this part out
read this...)
■ 1 medium Phillips screw driver. (for removing the old drive)
■ 1 3.5" SATA HDD (find one yourself start here...)
■ 1 3.5" SATA HDD enclosure. (Like this one here...)
■ 1 Male SATA 7-Pin DATA to Female SATA 7-Pin Cable. (I'm using a 20") Got mine here...
■ You may need a set of needle nose pliers or a pair of snips.
Instructions (sort of)
■ CoolMax CD-311-SATA COMBO - or an equivalent
Reasons I chose this model
■ It's black, the PS3 is black.
■ Uses SATA or IDE drives.
■ Has a SATA connection which the PS3 uses.
■ Also has USB & Firewire.
■ It was cheap, only 50 bones at NewEgg. There are less expensive ones available, you'll
have to look.
A few other nice things, you can safely carry this unit over to your PC, Mac, & Linux boxes or
another PS3. Take it with you to your friends' places, work and school. It will be easy to hook
up; it has USB and Firewire as well as the all important SATA. There is little or no risk of ESD
to the drive; in it's enclosure.
So put your stinking 3.5" SATA drive in this, if you really have to; use the instructions that came
with the enclosure, gosh!
■ Male SATA 7-Pin DATA to Female SATA 7-Pin Cable
It should look like this. The male end goes to the PS3 and the female end to the HDD
enclosure.
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■ You will need to remove part of the male end as shown below. I used a pair of chef
scissors and a small file to smooth it down flush. Use a utility knife if you like but don't cry
to me if you trash the cable or your hand.
You must login or register to view this content.
■ When you are done cutting it should look like the male connector pictured here. And if you
look at this picture and say to yourself that you need to cut the connector from the cable,
don't! If you do why do you have a knife to begin with? Maybe you should go play in the
corner with a plush toy by yourself.
You must login or register to view this content.
Notes
■ ***Important*** SATA is not Hot-Swappable, in other words turn off the PS3 or computer
before connecting or disconnecting the drive.
■ ***Important*** If you plan to disconnect the drive a lot leave the extension cable plugged into
the PS3. If you plan on hooking it up to another PS3 or computer via SATA buy another cable.
SATA connections were not designed to be disconnected and reconnected more the fifty times, it
will wear out. Buying another $6 cable and or $30-50 drive enclosure is much cheaper than
having your PS3 repaired or replaced, so don't screw up your PS3.
■ The PS3 does not have the power to handle most 3.5" SATA drives. It is best that you get an
enclosure like the one I recommend; it has it's own power source. Some people have suggested
that you can use a 22 pin male to female power and data SATA adapter (picture w/link below)
with a 3.5" drive. Your 3.5" HDD will draw too much power from the PS3 and make it freeze up.
These work great if you want to leave your 2.5" drive outside of the PS3 or if you are swapping
drives all the time, otherwise forget it.
■ If you want proof of concept (i.e. pics) don't ask me it works. I used a loose 160GB SATA drive
to test it out. I'm not dumping the change for a 750GB drive yet, though a 500GB is looking
kinda sweet right now.
Thoughts
■ If you want cut, a hole in your PS3's HDD cover and run the cable through go ahead. However, I
may at a later time make a male to male SATA cable. I will likely use the extension cable I
already have and a cable from a SATA cable bracket like in the following pics. I will cut a hole
of the appropriate size in the HDD cover and attach the bracket end to the cover. Figure this part
out yourself. For now I'll keep the PS3 in a vertical position with the cable hidden running
through a hole below to the drive enclosure.
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■ An individual on Team Xecuter's forums asked about the use of RAID with the PS3. A Team
Xecuter forum Mod said, 'No.' That is B.S. Let us look at it this way You can buy a RAID sub-
system that has a single SATA channel and hook it right up to your PS3, Bam!!! Can you say
Tera Bytes? I knew you could. A RAID sub-system or DAS with have an embedded RAID
controller. This embedded RAID controller will make the RAID array tranparent to the PS3, in
other words the PS3 will see it as one device.
Here is an example of a two disk RAID sub-system. This means that it has it's own RAID
hardware and the Host (PS3) that you connect it to will see it as a single SATA device.
Take note of the switch.
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Attention!!!
You say you're made of money and you need to make up up for the lack of something else. You
want the most for your PS3. You want 3.75TB of local storage capacity for your PS3.
Then this and others like it are for you, meet the MR5CT1. The MR5CT1 is a 5 Disk RAID subsystem
costing roughly $1500 w/out drives ($1300 from Newegg.com). You can figure out how
much you want to spend on 1-5 drives of the capacity of your choosing. At the time I orignaly
create this page I ran a search and with 5 750GB drives at Newegg and it will run you about
$3000 for a big ol fat 3.75TB storage device.
-Source: An ebook which unfortunantly, I am not allowed to release.
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07-24-2011, 08:42 AM
#3
Warlockplayer19
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07-24-2011, 12:58 PM
#4
eazynow82
Are you high?
Originally posted by Scepto
Intro
If you're like me, my 60GB PS3 does not have the storage capacity that I require. I am running Yellow
Dog Linux and I'm going to need more room on the HD for installs and files that I want locally. That
little 10GB partition the PS3 XMB is using is going quick; all those demos and videos that the Sony
store is dumping is really beginning to add up. Not only that, what about my music and PS1 downloads
for the PSP.
I already have a DIY NAS server at home. My server has a P4 2.8Ghz, 1GB ram, GbE NIC and 1TB of
storage. It does SMB/CIFS, NFS, FTP, HTTP and RSYNC, yadda, yadda, yadda. It's freaking fast but
using the PS3's Web browser sucks at the moment so for now while I am waiting to be able mount my
server's disk to the PS3's XMB I'm going to upgrade the PS3's HDD. Forget Team Xecuter's lame PS3
HDD mod (sorry Team Xecuter). They have not said anything about it for some time and it looks
fugly.
I'll provide at least one simple solution using a 3.5" SATA HD. 3.5" drives are all around much much
faster, cheaper and larger than 2.5" laptop HDD's like the one installed in your PS3. No the 3.5" drive
will not fit in to your PS3...
Towards the bottom of the page is for people who want bigger, better, faster equipment; developers,
researchers, hackers, modders, pirates, music and movie freaks apply.
Simple 3.5" HDD Mod Requirements
■ Your brain (or a borrowed one from a retarded baby monkey).
■ Enough of #1 to figure out how to remove the OEM HDD. (If you can't figure this part out
read this...)
■ 1 medium Phillips screw driver. (for removing the old drive)
■ 1 3.5" SATA HDD (find one yourself start here...)
■ 1 3.5" SATA HDD enclosure. (Like this one here...)
■ 1 Male SATA 7-Pin DATA to Female SATA 7-Pin Cable. (I'm using a 20") Got mine here...
■ You may need a set of needle nose pliers or a pair of snips.
Instructions (sort of)
■ CoolMax CD-311-SATA COMBO - or an equivalent
Reasons I chose this model
■ It's black, the PS3 is black.
■ Uses SATA or IDE drives.
■ Has a SATA connection which the PS3 uses.
■ Also has USB & Firewire.
■ It was cheap, only 50 bones at NewEgg. There are less expensive ones available, you'll
have to look.
A few other nice things, you can safely carry this unit over to your PC, Mac, & Linux boxes or
another PS3. Take it with you to your friends' places, work and school. It will be easy to hook
up; it has USB and Firewire as well as the all important SATA. There is little or no risk of ESD
to the drive; in it's enclosure.
So put your stinking 3.5" SATA drive in this, if you really have to; use the instructions that came
with the enclosure, gosh!
■ Male SATA 7-Pin DATA to Female SATA 7-Pin Cable
It should look like this. The male end goes to the PS3 and the female end to the HDD
enclosure.
You must login or register to view this content.
■ You will need to remove part of the male end as shown below. I used a pair of chef
scissors and a small file to smooth it down flush. Use a utility knife if you like but don't cry
to me if you trash the cable or your hand.
You must login or register to view this content.
■ When you are done cutting it should look like the male connector pictured here. And if you
look at this picture and say to yourself that you need to cut the connector from the cable,
don't! If you do why do you have a knife to begin with? Maybe you should go play in the
corner with a plush toy by yourself.
You must login or register to view this content.
Notes
■ ***Important*** SATA is not Hot-Swappable, in other words turn off the PS3 or computer
before connecting or disconnecting the drive.
■ ***Important*** If you plan to disconnect the drive a lot leave the extension cable plugged into
the PS3. If you plan on hooking it up to another PS3 or computer via SATA buy another cable.
SATA connections were not designed to be disconnected and reconnected more the fifty times, it
will wear out. Buying another $6 cable and or $30-50 drive enclosure is much cheaper than
having your PS3 repaired or replaced, so don't screw up your PS3.
■ The PS3 does not have the power to handle most 3.5" SATA drives. It is best that you get an
enclosure like the one I recommend; it has it's own power source. Some people have suggested
that you can use a 22 pin male to female power and data SATA adapter (picture w/link below)
with a 3.5" drive. Your 3.5" HDD will draw too much power from the PS3 and make it freeze up.
These work great if you want to leave your 2.5" drive outside of the PS3 or if you are swapping
drives all the time, otherwise forget it.
■ If you want proof of concept (i.e. pics) don't ask me it works. I used a loose 160GB SATA drive
to test it out. I'm not dumping the change for a 750GB drive yet, though a 500GB is looking
kinda sweet right now.
Thoughts
■ If you want cut, a hole in your PS3's HDD cover and run the cable through go ahead. However, I
may at a later time make a male to male SATA cable. I will likely use the extension cable I
already have and a cable from a SATA cable bracket like in the following pics. I will cut a hole
of the appropriate size in the HDD cover and attach the bracket end to the cover. Figure this part
out yourself. For now I'll keep the PS3 in a vertical position with the cable hidden running
through a hole below to the drive enclosure.
You must login or register to view this content.
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■ An individual on Team Xecuter's forums asked about the use of RAID with the PS3. A Team
Xecuter forum Mod said, 'No.' That is B.S. Let us look at it this way You can buy a RAID sub-
system that has a single SATA channel and hook it right up to your PS3, Bam!!! Can you say
Tera Bytes? I knew you could. A RAID sub-system or DAS with have an embedded RAID
controller. This embedded RAID controller will make the RAID array tranparent to the PS3, in
other words the PS3 will see it as one device.
Here is an example of a two disk RAID sub-system. This means that it has it's own RAID
hardware and the Host (PS3) that you connect it to will see it as a single SATA device.
Take note of the switch.
You must login or register to view this content.
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Attention!!!
You say you're made of money and you need to make up up for the lack of something else. You
want the most for your PS3. You want 3.75TB of local storage capacity for your PS3.
Then this and others like it are for you, meet the MR5CT1. The MR5CT1 is a 5 Disk RAID subsystem
costing roughly $1500 w/out drives ($1300 from Newegg.com). You can figure out how
much you want to spend on 1-5 drives of the capacity of your choosing. At the time I orignaly
create this page I ran a search and with 5 750GB drives at Newegg and it will run you about
$3000 for a big ol fat 3.75TB storage device.
-Source: An ebook which unfortunantly, I am not allowed to release.
If you're like me, my 60GB PS3 does not have the storage capacity that I require. I am running Yellow
Dog Linux and I'm going to need more room on the HD for installs and files that I want locally. That
little 10GB partition the PS3 XMB is using is going quick; all those demos and videos that the Sony
store is dumping is really beginning to add up. Not only that, what about my music and PS1 downloads
for the PSP.
I already have a DIY NAS server at home. My server has a P4 2.8Ghz, 1GB ram, GbE NIC and 1TB of
storage. It does SMB/CIFS, NFS, FTP, HTTP and RSYNC, yadda, yadda, yadda. It's freaking fast but
using the PS3's Web browser sucks at the moment so for now while I am waiting to be able mount my
server's disk to the PS3's XMB I'm going to upgrade the PS3's HDD. Forget Team Xecuter's lame PS3
HDD mod (sorry Team Xecuter). They have not said anything about it for some time and it looks
fugly.
I'll provide at least one simple solution using a 3.5" SATA HD. 3.5" drives are all around much much
faster, cheaper and larger than 2.5" laptop HDD's like the one installed in your PS3. No the 3.5" drive
will not fit in to your PS3...
Towards the bottom of the page is for people who want bigger, better, faster equipment; developers,
researchers, hackers, modders, pirates, music and movie freaks apply.
Simple 3.5" HDD Mod Requirements
■ Your brain (or a borrowed one from a retarded baby monkey).
■ Enough of #1 to figure out how to remove the OEM HDD. (If you can't figure this part out
read this...)
■ 1 medium Phillips screw driver. (for removing the old drive)
■ 1 3.5" SATA HDD (find one yourself start here...)
■ 1 3.5" SATA HDD enclosure. (Like this one here...)
■ 1 Male SATA 7-Pin DATA to Female SATA 7-Pin Cable. (I'm using a 20") Got mine here...
■ You may need a set of needle nose pliers or a pair of snips.
Instructions (sort of)
■ CoolMax CD-311-SATA COMBO - or an equivalent
Reasons I chose this model
■ It's black, the PS3 is black.
■ Uses SATA or IDE drives.
■ Has a SATA connection which the PS3 uses.
■ Also has USB & Firewire.
■ It was cheap, only 50 bones at NewEgg. There are less expensive ones available, you'll
have to look.
A few other nice things, you can safely carry this unit over to your PC, Mac, & Linux boxes or
another PS3. Take it with you to your friends' places, work and school. It will be easy to hook
up; it has USB and Firewire as well as the all important SATA. There is little or no risk of ESD
to the drive; in it's enclosure.
So put your stinking 3.5" SATA drive in this, if you really have to; use the instructions that came
with the enclosure, gosh!
■ Male SATA 7-Pin DATA to Female SATA 7-Pin Cable
It should look like this. The male end goes to the PS3 and the female end to the HDD
enclosure.
You must login or register to view this content.
■ You will need to remove part of the male end as shown below. I used a pair of chef
scissors and a small file to smooth it down flush. Use a utility knife if you like but don't cry
to me if you trash the cable or your hand.
You must login or register to view this content.
■ When you are done cutting it should look like the male connector pictured here. And if you
look at this picture and say to yourself that you need to cut the connector from the cable,
don't! If you do why do you have a knife to begin with? Maybe you should go play in the
corner with a plush toy by yourself.
You must login or register to view this content.
Notes
■ ***Important*** SATA is not Hot-Swappable, in other words turn off the PS3 or computer
before connecting or disconnecting the drive.
■ ***Important*** If you plan to disconnect the drive a lot leave the extension cable plugged into
the PS3. If you plan on hooking it up to another PS3 or computer via SATA buy another cable.
SATA connections were not designed to be disconnected and reconnected more the fifty times, it
will wear out. Buying another $6 cable and or $30-50 drive enclosure is much cheaper than
having your PS3 repaired or replaced, so don't screw up your PS3.
■ The PS3 does not have the power to handle most 3.5" SATA drives. It is best that you get an
enclosure like the one I recommend; it has it's own power source. Some people have suggested
that you can use a 22 pin male to female power and data SATA adapter (picture w/link below)
with a 3.5" drive. Your 3.5" HDD will draw too much power from the PS3 and make it freeze up.
These work great if you want to leave your 2.5" drive outside of the PS3 or if you are swapping
drives all the time, otherwise forget it.
■ If you want proof of concept (i.e. pics) don't ask me it works. I used a loose 160GB SATA drive
to test it out. I'm not dumping the change for a 750GB drive yet, though a 500GB is looking
kinda sweet right now.
Thoughts
■ If you want cut, a hole in your PS3's HDD cover and run the cable through go ahead. However, I
may at a later time make a male to male SATA cable. I will likely use the extension cable I
already have and a cable from a SATA cable bracket like in the following pics. I will cut a hole
of the appropriate size in the HDD cover and attach the bracket end to the cover. Figure this part
out yourself. For now I'll keep the PS3 in a vertical position with the cable hidden running
through a hole below to the drive enclosure.
You must login or register to view this content.
You must login or register to view this content.
■ An individual on Team Xecuter's forums asked about the use of RAID with the PS3. A Team
Xecuter forum Mod said, 'No.' That is B.S. Let us look at it this way You can buy a RAID sub-
system that has a single SATA channel and hook it right up to your PS3, Bam!!! Can you say
Tera Bytes? I knew you could. A RAID sub-system or DAS with have an embedded RAID
controller. This embedded RAID controller will make the RAID array tranparent to the PS3, in
other words the PS3 will see it as one device.
Here is an example of a two disk RAID sub-system. This means that it has it's own RAID
hardware and the Host (PS3) that you connect it to will see it as a single SATA device.
Take note of the switch.
You must login or register to view this content.
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Attention!!!
You say you're made of money and you need to make up up for the lack of something else. You
want the most for your PS3. You want 3.75TB of local storage capacity for your PS3.
Then this and others like it are for you, meet the MR5CT1. The MR5CT1 is a 5 Disk RAID subsystem
costing roughly $1500 w/out drives ($1300 from Newegg.com). You can figure out how
much you want to spend on 1-5 drives of the capacity of your choosing. At the time I orignaly
create this page I ran a search and with 5 750GB drives at Newegg and it will run you about
$3000 for a big ol fat 3.75TB storage device.
-Source: An ebook which unfortunantly, I am not allowed to release.
I made my external 3.5 1TB HDD work as the inner HDD , using male to male connector by modding the lead turning it into male to female and the power is plugged into mains, works perfect. I did this a long time ago and i also have a 2TB External HDD so awsome space!! this has cost me £180 so was a lot cheaper lol
Anyways Good Post m8
07-24-2011, 02:23 PM
#5
Stack0verfl0w
Computer engineer
Originally posted by Scepto
Intro
If you're like me, my 60GB PS3 does not have the storage capacity that I require. I am running Yellow
Dog Linux and I'm going to need more room on the HD for installs and files that I want locally. That
little 10GB partition the PS3 XMB is using is going quick; all those demos and videos that the Sony
store is dumping is really beginning to add up. Not only that, what about my music and PS1 downloads
for the PSP.
I already have a DIY NAS server at home. My server has a P4 2.8Ghz, 1GB ram, GbE NIC and 1TB of
storage. It does SMB/CIFS, NFS, FTP, HTTP and RSYNC, yadda, yadda, yadda. It's freaking fast but
using the PS3's Web browser sucks at the moment so for now while I am waiting to be able mount my
server's disk to the PS3's XMB I'm going to upgrade the PS3's HDD. Forget Team Xecuter's lame PS3
HDD mod (sorry Team Xecuter). They have not said anything about it for some time and it looks
fugly.
I'll provide at least one simple solution using a 3.5" SATA HD. 3.5" drives are all around much much
faster, cheaper and larger than 2.5" laptop HDD's like the one installed in your PS3. No the 3.5" drive
will not fit in to your PS3...
Towards the bottom of the page is for people who want bigger, better, faster equipment; developers,
researchers, hackers, modders, pirates, music and movie freaks apply.
Simple 3.5" HDD Mod Requirements
■ Your brain (or a borrowed one from a retarded baby monkey).
■ Enough of #1 to figure out how to remove the OEM HDD. (If you can't figure this part out
read this...)
■ 1 medium Phillips screw driver. (for removing the old drive)
■ 1 3.5" SATA HDD (find one yourself start here...)
■ 1 3.5" SATA HDD enclosure. (Like this one here...)
■ 1 Male SATA 7-Pin DATA to Female SATA 7-Pin Cable. (I'm using a 20") Got mine here...
■ You may need a set of needle nose pliers or a pair of snips.
Instructions (sort of)
■ CoolMax CD-311-SATA COMBO - or an equivalent
Reasons I chose this model
■ It's black, the PS3 is black.
■ Uses SATA or IDE drives.
■ Has a SATA connection which the PS3 uses.
■ Also has USB & Firewire.
■ It was cheap, only 50 bones at NewEgg. There are less expensive ones available, you'll
have to look.
A few other nice things, you can safely carry this unit over to your PC, Mac, & Linux boxes or
another PS3. Take it with you to your friends' places, work and school. It will be easy to hook
up; it has USB and Firewire as well as the all important SATA. There is little or no risk of ESD
to the drive; in it's enclosure.
So put your stinking 3.5" SATA drive in this, if you really have to; use the instructions that came
with the enclosure, gosh!
■ Male SATA 7-Pin DATA to Female SATA 7-Pin Cable
It should look like this. The male end goes to the PS3 and the female end to the HDD
enclosure.
You must login or register to view this content.
■ You will need to remove part of the male end as shown below. I used a pair of chef
scissors and a small file to smooth it down flush. Use a utility knife if you like but don't cry
to me if you trash the cable or your hand.
You must login or register to view this content.
■ When you are done cutting it should look like the male connector pictured here. And if you
look at this picture and say to yourself that you need to cut the connector from the cable,
don't! If you do why do you have a knife to begin with? Maybe you should go play in the
corner with a plush toy by yourself.
You must login or register to view this content.
Notes
■ ***Important*** SATA is not Hot-Swappable, in other words turn off the PS3 or computer
before connecting or disconnecting the drive.
■ ***Important*** If you plan to disconnect the drive a lot leave the extension cable plugged into
the PS3. If you plan on hooking it up to another PS3 or computer via SATA buy another cable.
SATA connections were not designed to be disconnected and reconnected more the fifty times, it
will wear out. Buying another $6 cable and or $30-50 drive enclosure is much cheaper than
having your PS3 repaired or replaced, so don't screw up your PS3.
■ The PS3 does not have the power to handle most 3.5" SATA drives. It is best that you get an
enclosure like the one I recommend; it has it's own power source. Some people have suggested
that you can use a 22 pin male to female power and data SATA adapter (picture w/link below)
with a 3.5" drive. Your 3.5" HDD will draw too much power from the PS3 and make it freeze up.
These work great if you want to leave your 2.5" drive outside of the PS3 or if you are swapping
drives all the time, otherwise forget it.
■ If you want proof of concept (i.e. pics) don't ask me it works. I used a loose 160GB SATA drive
to test it out. I'm not dumping the change for a 750GB drive yet, though a 500GB is looking
kinda sweet right now.
Thoughts
■ If you want cut, a hole in your PS3's HDD cover and run the cable through go ahead. However, I
may at a later time make a male to male SATA cable. I will likely use the extension cable I
already have and a cable from a SATA cable bracket like in the following pics. I will cut a hole
of the appropriate size in the HDD cover and attach the bracket end to the cover. Figure this part
out yourself. For now I'll keep the PS3 in a vertical position with the cable hidden running
through a hole below to the drive enclosure.
You must login or register to view this content.
You must login or register to view this content.
■ An individual on Team Xecuter's forums asked about the use of RAID with the PS3. A Team
Xecuter forum Mod said, 'No.' That is B.S. Let us look at it this way You can buy a RAID sub-
system that has a single SATA channel and hook it right up to your PS3, Bam!!! Can you say
Tera Bytes? I knew you could. A RAID sub-system or DAS with have an embedded RAID
controller. This embedded RAID controller will make the RAID array tranparent to the PS3, in
other words the PS3 will see it as one device.
Here is an example of a two disk RAID sub-system. This means that it has it's own RAID
hardware and the Host (PS3) that you connect it to will see it as a single SATA device.
Take note of the switch.
You must login or register to view this content.
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Attention!!!
You say you're made of money and you need to make up up for the lack of something else. You
want the most for your PS3. You want 3.75TB of local storage capacity for your PS3.
Then this and others like it are for you, meet the MR5CT1. The MR5CT1 is a 5 Disk RAID subsystem
costing roughly $1500 w/out drives ($1300 from Newegg.com). You can figure out how
much you want to spend on 1-5 drives of the capacity of your choosing. At the time I orignaly
create this page I ran a search and with 5 750GB drives at Newegg and it will run you about
$3000 for a big ol fat 3.75TB storage device.
-Source: An ebook which unfortunantly, I am not allowed to release.
If you're like me, my 60GB PS3 does not have the storage capacity that I require. I am running Yellow
Dog Linux and I'm going to need more room on the HD for installs and files that I want locally. That
little 10GB partition the PS3 XMB is using is going quick; all those demos and videos that the Sony
store is dumping is really beginning to add up. Not only that, what about my music and PS1 downloads
for the PSP.
I already have a DIY NAS server at home. My server has a P4 2.8Ghz, 1GB ram, GbE NIC and 1TB of
storage. It does SMB/CIFS, NFS, FTP, HTTP and RSYNC, yadda, yadda, yadda. It's freaking fast but
using the PS3's Web browser sucks at the moment so for now while I am waiting to be able mount my
server's disk to the PS3's XMB I'm going to upgrade the PS3's HDD. Forget Team Xecuter's lame PS3
HDD mod (sorry Team Xecuter). They have not said anything about it for some time and it looks
fugly.
I'll provide at least one simple solution using a 3.5" SATA HD. 3.5" drives are all around much much
faster, cheaper and larger than 2.5" laptop HDD's like the one installed in your PS3. No the 3.5" drive
will not fit in to your PS3...
Towards the bottom of the page is for people who want bigger, better, faster equipment; developers,
researchers, hackers, modders, pirates, music and movie freaks apply.
Simple 3.5" HDD Mod Requirements
■ Your brain (or a borrowed one from a retarded baby monkey).
■ Enough of #1 to figure out how to remove the OEM HDD. (If you can't figure this part out
read this...)
■ 1 medium Phillips screw driver. (for removing the old drive)
■ 1 3.5" SATA HDD (find one yourself start here...)
■ 1 3.5" SATA HDD enclosure. (Like this one here...)
■ 1 Male SATA 7-Pin DATA to Female SATA 7-Pin Cable. (I'm using a 20") Got mine here...
■ You may need a set of needle nose pliers or a pair of snips.
Instructions (sort of)
■ CoolMax CD-311-SATA COMBO - or an equivalent
Reasons I chose this model
■ It's black, the PS3 is black.
■ Uses SATA or IDE drives.
■ Has a SATA connection which the PS3 uses.
■ Also has USB & Firewire.
■ It was cheap, only 50 bones at NewEgg. There are less expensive ones available, you'll
have to look.
A few other nice things, you can safely carry this unit over to your PC, Mac, & Linux boxes or
another PS3. Take it with you to your friends' places, work and school. It will be easy to hook
up; it has USB and Firewire as well as the all important SATA. There is little or no risk of ESD
to the drive; in it's enclosure.
So put your stinking 3.5" SATA drive in this, if you really have to; use the instructions that came
with the enclosure, gosh!
■ Male SATA 7-Pin DATA to Female SATA 7-Pin Cable
It should look like this. The male end goes to the PS3 and the female end to the HDD
enclosure.
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■ You will need to remove part of the male end as shown below. I used a pair of chef
scissors and a small file to smooth it down flush. Use a utility knife if you like but don't cry
to me if you trash the cable or your hand.
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■ When you are done cutting it should look like the male connector pictured here. And if you
look at this picture and say to yourself that you need to cut the connector from the cable,
don't! If you do why do you have a knife to begin with? Maybe you should go play in the
corner with a plush toy by yourself.
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Notes
■ ***Important*** SATA is not Hot-Swappable, in other words turn off the PS3 or computer
before connecting or disconnecting the drive.
■ ***Important*** If you plan to disconnect the drive a lot leave the extension cable plugged into
the PS3. If you plan on hooking it up to another PS3 or computer via SATA buy another cable.
SATA connections were not designed to be disconnected and reconnected more the fifty times, it
will wear out. Buying another $6 cable and or $30-50 drive enclosure is much cheaper than
having your PS3 repaired or replaced, so don't screw up your PS3.
■ The PS3 does not have the power to handle most 3.5" SATA drives. It is best that you get an
enclosure like the one I recommend; it has it's own power source. Some people have suggested
that you can use a 22 pin male to female power and data SATA adapter (picture w/link below)
with a 3.5" drive. Your 3.5" HDD will draw too much power from the PS3 and make it freeze up.
These work great if you want to leave your 2.5" drive outside of the PS3 or if you are swapping
drives all the time, otherwise forget it.
■ If you want proof of concept (i.e. pics) don't ask me it works. I used a loose 160GB SATA drive
to test it out. I'm not dumping the change for a 750GB drive yet, though a 500GB is looking
kinda sweet right now.
Thoughts
■ If you want cut, a hole in your PS3's HDD cover and run the cable through go ahead. However, I
may at a later time make a male to male SATA cable. I will likely use the extension cable I
already have and a cable from a SATA cable bracket like in the following pics. I will cut a hole
of the appropriate size in the HDD cover and attach the bracket end to the cover. Figure this part
out yourself. For now I'll keep the PS3 in a vertical position with the cable hidden running
through a hole below to the drive enclosure.
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■ An individual on Team Xecuter's forums asked about the use of RAID with the PS3. A Team
Xecuter forum Mod said, 'No.' That is B.S. Let us look at it this way You can buy a RAID sub-
system that has a single SATA channel and hook it right up to your PS3, Bam!!! Can you say
Tera Bytes? I knew you could. A RAID sub-system or DAS with have an embedded RAID
controller. This embedded RAID controller will make the RAID array tranparent to the PS3, in
other words the PS3 will see it as one device.
Here is an example of a two disk RAID sub-system. This means that it has it's own RAID
hardware and the Host (PS3) that you connect it to will see it as a single SATA device.
Take note of the switch.
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Attention!!!
You say you're made of money and you need to make up up for the lack of something else. You
want the most for your PS3. You want 3.75TB of local storage capacity for your PS3.
Then this and others like it are for you, meet the MR5CT1. The MR5CT1 is a 5 Disk RAID subsystem
costing roughly $1500 w/out drives ($1300 from Newegg.com). You can figure out how
much you want to spend on 1-5 drives of the capacity of your choosing. At the time I orignaly
create this page I ran a search and with 5 750GB drives at Newegg and it will run you about
$3000 for a big ol fat 3.75TB storage device.
-Source: An ebook which unfortunantly, I am not allowed to release.
look cool i will look into it
07-25-2011, 06:47 PM
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dannyelstanx
Haxor!
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