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Steve-O 2004

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Posted: Sat, 2nd Dec 2006 17:56 Post subject: [PS3] Booting games from Hard Drive "not far off"

http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=12255

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Team Xecuter Move into PS3 - Hyperdrive, Booting Games from HDD 'Not far off'

World famous Xbox hacking development company 'Team Xecuter' has rolled out the details on their first commercial product for PS3 - the 'Hyperdrive'. This device will allow you to connect any 3.5" SATA hard drive to the PS3, supporting upto 750GB and switching between the external HYPERDRIVE and internal 2.5" HDD. There will also be USB 2.0 support to dump DATA to and from the HDD. They also state that a few friends in the Playstation scene have relayed that booting games from the PS3 HDD is not far off at all!

We've been playing with a PS3. Didn't take long to come up with a useful product - codenamed the HYPERDRIVE.

Features:

* Connect any 3.5" SATA Hard Drive to the PS3
* Developing ability to connect IDE hard drive
* Supports upto 750GB (maybe more thats all we have here)
* Switch between external HYPERDRIVE and internal 2.5" HDD
* HYPERDRIVE USB2.0 Support to dump data to/from HDD

When you connect the system announces the drive requires formatting etc and then promptly begins to prep it. All system settings are unchanged so they are stored internally to the PS3 and not on the HDD.

We can assure you that larger hard drives will be essential in the near future. After speaking to colleagues from the Playstation Scene, booting games from HDD is possible and not far off. As the games are blu-ray (17gb+ dumps available) then the larger HDD the better, and you wont get very large and cheap 2.5" drives, however 250GB 3.5" drives are close to $60 these days.

We may release a simple adapter first so you can hook up with ease right now rather than wait for release of the HYPERDRIVE, that won't take too long at all to release.

Product pics / more info soon.

Here's some crappy pics showing our first attempts at 3.5" hook ups. Drive in this pics was 150GB - note how much OS space is taken up !!

Also as stated my Paradox in their latest PS3 release -

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George W Bush -

'...more and more of our imports are coming from overseas.'

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Jenni
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Posted: Sat, 2nd Dec 2006 18:01 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Big fucking deal. The ps3 works with any hdd out of the box. I could make an adaptor myself. It isn't hard.

DeMoN064

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Posted: Sat, 2nd Dec 2006 18:19 Post subject:

Jenni wrote:

Big fucking deal. The ps3 works with any hdd out of the box. I could make an adaptor myself. It isn't hard.

^^ What she said. Razz

Also, They are just saying that games will be playable from HDD "Not far off", So more people will buy their crappy product.

Note : You cant run unsigned code from the XMB, How is an HDD loader going to run on it?
And don't say,"Linux" because it has nothing to do with the PS3 XMB.

Supino

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Location: Norway

Posted: Sat, 2nd Dec 2006 18:27 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I say, "Linux"!

DeMoN064

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Posted: Sat, 2nd Dec 2006 18:36 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Ugh.. It wont be "soon" but I'll give it 6-12 months before we see any "hacks" on the PS3. And it won't be hacked using PS3 linux damn it! An image exploit seems more likely

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