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Started by chriso_86 , Jan 06 2007 04:51 AM

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Posted 10 January 2007 - 11:48 PM

Cool. Too bad you can't use the 360 controllers with PS3 games. That hack will come eventually I'm sure.

I just bought a SCEPTRE x22wg-Gamer and an 80GB HITACHI Travelstar for my PS3. :storm:

Now I need to sell some stuff. Anybody want a 20GB PS3 hard drive?

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Posted 11 January 2007 - 12:45 AM

gotta get me a PS3 first, sorry

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Posted 11 January 2007 - 02:52 AM

Cool Brewin!! Yeah, I am going to replace my 60gb with a 160 soon enough! Just gotta wait for some more money first. The 60 should be plenty for now.

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Posted 11 January 2007 - 02:57 AM

lol barly getting 160gb desktop drives an here you are talking about a 160 gig PS3 drive.

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Posted 11 January 2007 - 04:38 AM

Hitachi just announced 1TB drives and Seagate is due soon to release theirs, make a sweet PS3 drive I'd imagine. As for spending money I won't spend a dime right now if I can help it till I find some way to have an income again, might take awhile.

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Posted 11 January 2007 - 04:50 AM

http://www.theinquir...x?article=36841
oh gosh...not to be too off topic, but storage was mentioned... :storm:

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Posted 11 January 2007 - 04:54 AM

View PostTweak, on Jan 10 2007, 10:38 PM, said:

Hitachi just announced 1TB drives and Seagate is due soon to release theirs, make a sweet PS3 drive I'd imagine. As for spending money I won't spend a dime right now if I can help it till I find some way to have an income again, might take awhile.
The PS3 needs a 2.5" SATA drive. The 1TB Hitachi is 3.5". Not that I can afford (or need) anything close to that anyway...

You could put it in an external enclosure though. Would be nice to have a terabyte of space to copy those 50GB Blu-ray discs to... :storm:

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Posted 11 January 2007 - 06:00 AM

Yeah, the 160 is the largest I can find in 2.5!

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Posted 11 January 2007 - 08:23 AM

View Postchriso_86, on Jan 11 2007, 12:00 AM, said:

Yeah, the 160 is the largest I can find in 2.5!
You might want to go with a 7200RPM drive. I've heard it speeds up game load times pretty noticeably. I'll let you know if it's true in a few days.

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Posted 11 January 2007 - 03:30 PM

Oh ok!! Thanks for that info!! I await your response!! However, eventually the Yellow Dog is going to be able to do DVR stuff with the PS3 they said so that is why I want a large hard drive. But if it is that big of a difference I might consider a smaller one. I guess I could always put a external drive on it for DVR purposes.

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Posted 12 January 2007 - 12:46 AM

Well, I got my PS3 today and got it all installed and running!! Haven't done the linux install. Having to much fun watching Blu Ray on my HDTV!! Gotta go to school tomorrow and Sat. morning so I won't be able to play with it again until Sat. afternoon. So, I will try to do the linux install then.

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Posted 15 January 2007 - 02:31 AM

Well, I got linux installed and running. All and all it was really quite easy to do!!! I am actually making this post from my PS3 in linux right now!!! Way cool!!! Now to play around for a bit!!

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Posted 15 January 2007 - 02:35 AM

:davex: :yahoo: :yahoo:

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Posted 15 January 2007 - 02:38 AM

screenies! *auw*

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Posted 15 January 2007 - 05:19 AM

YDL 5.0 for PS3:
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Also, Gentoo is as easy to install as YDL using the stage 4 tarball.
http://overlays.gent...tallGentooOnPS3


The only problem I have (in both YDL and Gentoo) is that the video card driver (fbdev) doesn't support my 1680x1050 resolution and text looks bad at any other resolution. Hopefully this will get fixed soon.
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