Xecuter PS3 Hyperdrive

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Xecuter PS3 Hyperdrive Article posted by XanTium | 1-12-2006 12:54 | Permalink | Digg News » Comment article

From team-xecuter.com:

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 !!

Official Website: team-xecuter

from ps3-scene

[Gradius]

Blah, pure crap.

We want to see a good modchip around, not adaptadors.

[ibell63]

Blah, pure crap.

We want to see a good modchip around, not adaptadors.

I thought it was more encouraging than anything, I know the adapter is crap, but they said that booting games off the HDD is possible and large hard drives will be necessary in the near future, maybe they've been doing some exparimenting!

[Vegeta]

Its a step in the right direction.

[Illicious]

Hold ya horses, theres only so much you can do even when the system has been out a few days (even few months or years idc), but this is really nice to have. External usb2 hard drive is really cool especially since a avarage blue ray game is aroung 10 to 30 GBs.
Also, as said above the 3.5 are way cheaper than the 2.5 HDs.

[Prelude]

nah we dont need modchips we need some kinda exploit that will let us launch game images off the hdd

no modding is better than modding