PS3 Running iso's on External Ntfs drive

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Trewon Mcnab

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Hey, Everybody sorry if this question has been asked before but i would like to know how i can run iso's on my external drive and i would also like to know how well will the games perform?
Or is it better to just run the games on the ps3's internal HDD?
 
Trewon Mcnab said:
Hey, Everybody sorry if this question has been asked before but i would like to know how i can run iso's on my external drive and i would also like to know how well will the games perform?
Or is it better to just run the games on the ps3's internal HDD?
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I run my PS1 and PS3 ISO backups from an external drive; a FAT32 partition for PS1 backups and an NTFS partition for PS3 backups due to often large file size. PS2 ISOs must be mounted from the internal HDD (dev_hdd0/PS2ISO).
For PS1 and PS3 backups, place them in a folder on the root of the drive (internal or external) called PSXISO and PS3ISO, respectively. You can mount and launch them with a homebrew backup manager such as webMAN MOD, IRISMAN or ManaGunZ. Hope this helps.
 
With irisman or managunz is very straightforward... there are no other requirements
The performance in external USB (i guess you mean the load speeds) is fine. I use to have all game backups in internal hdd because is easyer, and technically SATA is faster than USB
 
Thanks i guys i was really wondering about load speeds because i had heard elsewhere that loadspeeds and compatibility on games are bad if you play on an external drive
 
Coldheart2236 said:
I run my PS1 and PS3 ISO backups from an external drive; a FAT32 partition for PS1 backups and an NTFS partition for PS3 backups due to often large file size. PS2 ISOs must be mounted from the internal HDD (dev_hdd0/PS2ISO).
For PS1 and PS3 backups, place them in a folder on the root of the drive (internal or external) called PSXISO and PS3ISO, respectively. You can mount and launch them with a homebrew backup manager such as webMAN MOD, IRISMAN or ManaGunZ. Hope this helps.
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Will webman recognize my ntfs drive by default?
Or is there should i use an app like prepntfs?
 
sandungas said:
With irisman or managunz is very straightforward... there are no other requirements
The performance in external USB (i guess you mean the load speeds) is fine. I use to have all game backups in internal hdd because is easyer, and technically SATA is faster than USB
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Actually, it would be interesting to see perf stats.

Both the iso & the game directory on internal sata
vs.
iso on ntfs usb + game directory on internal sata..

Perf differences must vary from game to game as well...
 
bguerville said:
Actually, it would be interesting to see perf stats.

Both the iso & the game directory on internal sata
vs.
iso on ntfs usb + game directory on internal sata..

Perf differences must vary from game to game as well...
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That could be very interesting, i never saw a serious comparison well made to clear all doubts
This is why i said that "technically" SATA is faster than USB, because i dont know if there is something slowing down the speeds... but initially sata should win usb

Another comparison i would like to see is the speeds loading a backup from a USB flash stick... but this needs to be made with a very good flash stick (with high read speeds.... the write speeds doesnt matters)
Ive seen some webs with huge lists of flash sticks performance, so by knowing the brand/model we could be sure that flash stick is really "squeezing" the USB speeds to the max

For some time i was considering buying a flash stick and dedicate it to the PS3
For the capacity initially i was thinking in 50GB because a PS3 bluray is limited to 50GB capacity... so in the worst scenario posible i could store 1 game in it
In the practise... the biggest game i know from PS3 library if i remember right was killzone3 with 40GB... but is because it have around 12gb of videos, and are duplicated for "stereoscopic 3D" TVs (so 24 gb of videos in total and you are never going to watch one set of them)
So... yeah, there are many games that worths to be "ripped" (to remove game files and make them smaller)
In the practise with a flash stick of 32gb should be enought to hold one game (in the worst scenario), or several
 
sandungas said:
the biggest game i know from PS3 library if i remember right was killzone3 with 40GB
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Killzone 3 and also Metal Gear Sold 4: Guns of the Patriots is massive as well. Both are about 40GB or more, I think MGS4 is bigger, have not check them in a while, I just checked the size of them, saw how big they were and went "I am not sitting waiting for that to copy" and took it out the drive. Still haven't backed them up lol.
 
Cypher_CG89 said:
Killzone 3 and also Metal Gear Sold 4: Guns of the Patriots is massive as well. Both are about 40GB or more, I think MGS4 is bigger, have not check them in a while, I just checked the size of them, saw how big they were and went "I am not sitting waiting for that to copy" and took it out the drive. Still haven't backed them up lol.
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Uncharted 3 GOTY edition is about 40GB and I think it's bigger than MGS4 which is about 30GB if memory serves. It is late though so I could be wrong lol
 
@sandungas I was wrong lol. Killzone 3 is a bigger game than MGS4 GOTP

Killzone 3 disc test:

KZ3 Disc test.png


Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots disc test:

MGS4 Disc test.png

Coldheart2236 said:
Uncharted 3 GOTY edition is about 40GB and I think it's bigger than MGS4 which is about 30GB if memory serves. It is late though so I could be wrong lol
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Uncharted games are massive as well, and really good games to play. Its not that late lad..... its' only 03.25am LOL
 
Is because the audio files, in general for every language there is around 800mb of audio, there are lot of game companies that publishes different releases "by countries" (as example, COD games, the elder scrolls), but killzones, uncharted, metal gears probably are packed as "worldwide" release so the version for USA, ASIA, EURO contains the same languages and probably are a lot
 
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