SSHD or HDD for PS3

kozarovv said:
You can check smart even from usb, but i'm using sata ports. Because i can check disc in mhdd from sata. Mhdd give you info which sector "is going to be bad" by showing access time to every single sector. If you see that access time is too long then you know that sector probably not gonna live to long.
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Exactlly, MHDD is awesome :)
With it you can make a hdd surface scan, it reports the read latency of all the sectors (the scan only reads, after the scan the data is still there)... so you can see the "health" of every secor
After that you can make a low level format, and scan again to see if the problematic sectors revided (sometimes after a format the results are better because the sector was "demagnetized" and the writing process "magnetized" it again)

Also... with that scan you can find scratches in the hdd plate surface, aka "landings" of the hdd head (if you find lot of sectors damaged consecutivelly... thats a landing... the head touched the plated while it was spinning and made a scratch in the surface of the plate)
If you have damaged sectors you can remap them, this is much more complex, better dont try to remap without practising with other hdds before because you will run out of available sectors for remapping (usually hdds only has around 200 availables iirc... if you try to remap a landing of 1000 sectors you will fail because after the remap you will have 800 still damaged)
As a last resource when there are sectors damaged and no availables for remaping... the only thing left is to use the HPA functions (high protected area) that sets the limit of capacity of the hdd
Example... if you have an hdd of 160gb with a landing located around 110gb.... you can "cut" the drive capacity to 100GB and it will work normally

All this can be made with MHDD, is a must have, but as said... to practise better use a damaged hdd because the available remap sectors are like gold... if you run out of them the only options left are to cut the drive capacity with HPA or throw it out of the window


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More info for [MENTION=46]haxxxen[/MENTION] :)
Sometimes what happens is the heads of the hdd are a bit damaged, and has read/write problems
When the heads are damaged... the quality of the read/write depends of the distance of the area to the center of the plate
In the border is where more problems happens... while near to the center it reads better

By looking at the scan made with MHDD you can see where are the borders of the plates (it happens in all hdds, even in new ones, the speeds are always smaller in the borders). If the heads are damaged there will be lot of sectors spreaded here and there in this areas, and his positions can vary between scans
 
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I don't have time for deep tests but i can say for sure that on ~15-20 second operation you get 1-2 second max faster loading, etc. It was worth? If you can buy SSHD in same price as hdd you can try but if you need to pay 10$ more is not worth. My SSHD going to my PS4 and there i make another compare to hdd. I hope PS4 get more speed advantage than PS3 due to higher sata standard.
 
[MENTION=118]kozarovv[/MENTION], ps2 slim with matrix infinity on fw 1.91 and latest ulaunch, ps3 on rebug 4.75.3 rex, ds with supercard dstwo on ios 1.14, psp with 6.60 lme 2.3 - 6.60 pro b10 - 6.60 ofw triple boot, xbox360 on 17349 lt 3.00, new 3ds on ofw 9.0.0-20 system nand; 9.5.0-23 emunand, psv on 3.50 tn-v11 with rejuvenate, wii on 4.1 with uneek on 3.2, and wii-u with homebrew channel installed. I may have missed something, but that's off the top of my head.

edit: I also have diosmios and the mighty channels plugin installed on my wii with a custom black skin. I've done no more on the wii-u, cause I don't want to hack systems much anymore. I even bought a switcher for the wii and wii-u hdd that I've never tested aside from checking the hdd on the wii and whether or not it worked. the switcher worked with it, so it should with the wii-u. :)
 
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And why pray tell is your damn PSTV not hacked yet? And BTW yes you will see a noticeable difference in the PS4 with a SSHD BTW ;-)
 
atreyu187 said:
And why pray tell is your damn PSTV not hacked yet? And BTW yes you will see a noticeable difference in the PS4 with a SSHD BTW ;-)
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Because i'm playing TLOU, Project Cars, when i get free time i hack it. But now for some time i'm totally out of homebrew and hacking (not to be confused with out of helping here on psx-place, i still will be active here like before). I'm enjoying my PS4 games now, when i get bored i back to PSTV and PS3 as i have even valid psn account on my PS3 so then i try PSTV.

ps. SSHD in PS4 is worth buying, even loading icons in menu is much faster. I like it. :)
 
kozarovv said:
Because i'm playing TLOU, Project Cars, when i get free time i hack it. But now for some time i'm totally out of homebrew and hacking (not to be confused with out of helping here on psx-place, i still will be active here like before). I'm enjoying my PS4 games now, when i get bored i back to PSTV and PS3 as i have even valid psn account on my PS3 so then i try PSTV.

ps. SSHD in PS4 is worth buying, even loading icons in menu is much faster. I like it. :)
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No I meant pinky I have been on his ass for a month now to do his. You just got yours. Now you have the bjg choice of hacked PSTV or PS4 Link. I myself had to get a second PSTV. And I'm playing LOU as well on PS4 what a coincidence.
 
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No I meant pinky I have been on his ass for a month now to do his. You just got yours. Now you have the bjg choice of hacked PSTV or PS4 Link. I myself had to get a second PSTV. And I'm playing LOU as well on PS4 what a coincidence.
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I was thinking you talking to me because you answered about ps4 and sshd also.
 
I have a couple more hacked 360s. and, my wii also has a wiikey with, iirc, firmware 1.9s (the Super Mario Galaxy firmware). btw, "pinky get Playstation 4" (the limited edition battlefront Darth Vader one). :) oops, I derailed this thread. :-/ I had forgotten in which thread [MENTION=118]kozarovv[/MENTION] asked me which systems I had. feel free to move all the posts about that to the "I guess I'll be buying a ps4" thread. :)
 
atreyu187 said:
Yea I can be confusing at times. My bad.
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ur pretty much like me whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. ;) we both can be overzealous at times by giving a lot of superfluous information that's not really needed to answer a particular question which in turn can be confusing.
 
pinky said:
ur pretty much like me whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. ;) we both can be overzealous at times by giving a lot of superfluous information that's not really needed to answer a particular question which in turn can be confusing.
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I am gonna keep this one some then, my single word reply....

TOUCHÉ!!!
 
pinky said:
I was actually fishing for a compliment. lol
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Apparently you don't get my level of sarcasm lol. It's my first language. You also missed the convo me and bits had. I'm oblivous to the obvious. That and a severe lack of sleep never helps
 
atreyu187 said:
Apparently you don't get my level of sarcasm lol. It's my first language. You also missed the convo me and bits had. I'm oblivous to the obvious. That and a severe lack of sleep never helps
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u love pinky, don't u? ;) "pink"sters call me "pinky winky." :p
 
They say real men wear pink hahaha I really need to quit playing Batman and go to sleep. I'm hysterical at this point!!
 
Sorry for necrobumping this thread, but making another one with the same topic makes little sense to me...

I have been using my SLIM ps3 with a 1 tb HDD (can't remember exact model, but it was the first Samsung drive able to fit the ps3 tray) for years without problems, excluding that immediately after a certain OFW update (again, I'm not sure which one, but it was 2-3 years ago) it started taking ages to boot.
At first I thought it was normal, as hdd was more or less at 50% capacity and fragmentation and stuff usually happens in these cases. It did not happen only after:

  • rebuilding database
  • updating firmware

But now this is getting ridiculous, because recently I was forced to format the hdd due to file system corruption. Usually you would think "great, now the hdd is empty, so there is no way this would still happen", right? Instead, it keeps doing this even if I just dare writing ONE file/game/whatever to the hdd and deleting it immediately after!

That's why I strongly suspect that there is something in the firmware that, from a certain version on, hates my current hdd at hardware level.
Any ideas? Do you think I should replace it with, maybe, a 1 tb SSHD?

If you do, any brand / model you could recommend (i.e. you are sure it works with ps3)? Possibly not too expensive.
 
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