usbexteme hard drive - PS3 NEWS

**Macdadon34** · 04-09-2005

Hey should i get a hard drive with an 8mb cache or a 16mb cache. would this 16 mb help out with the choppy fmvs. Using a 2mb cache and it is really choppy

**Rook** · 04-09-2005

The cache capacity of the hard drive will most likely make no difference in USBeXtreme's performance. The PS2's USB 1.1 ports only have a maximum transfer rate of 12 Mbit/s (approximately 1.5 Mbyte/s). Faster hard drives cannot increase this USB limitation.

**shingy** · 04-09-2005

i thought the ps2two had usb2 ports?

**allcreative** · 04-09-2005

no, the pstwo only has usb1 ports. this is confirmed on the sony website. (as far as i know)
cheers
nik

**shingy** · 04-09-2005

wow.. i can't believe they didn't add usb2 support.. that really sucks

**ducatis** · 04-10-2005

they didnt do usb2 for a reason, all the pheripals are able to run on usb 1.1. Also as mentioned above, you dont need any higher than 8mb cache, i would even settle for a 5400rpm, 2mb cache. much cheaper

**Sylwek** · 04-10-2005

damn i w8 for this soft and this is not good :/

**Rook** · 04-10-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by ftantec

If you use a usb-2 hub and connect to both ps2's usb1 ports, im pretty sure you will get the usb2 if needed. Like explained earlier though, there is no need for more if its not gonna matter.

Yeah, I don't think it works like that. Any USB interface splits its available bandwidth between all devices connected. You can't just plug in a second USB cable to the PS2 and suddenly have 24 Mbit/s instead of 12 Mbit/s. Even if that theory did work, the PS2 would need one hell of a lot more USB ports to get USB 2.0's 480 Mbit/s.

**ducatis** · 04-10-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by ftantec
If you use a usb-2 hub and connect to both ps2's usb1 ports, im pretty sure you will get the usb2 if needed. Like explained earlier though, there is no need for more if its not gonna matter.

LOL. Good theory. Theres no way that can work unless you get a special program...much in the same way as RAID for computers. Would be good if it could though.