He should have used a 2.5″ drive.. Sure, you can’t get them with the same capacities as the 3.5″s, but then you can draw +5 from the motherboard and make it neater..

no 2.5″ HDD is slower than a CD drive. got it?

Note that several people in that forum report the job working BUT their HDD gets reformatted after each reboot. Cool mod, but that reformat issue makes it pretty useless.

Wanko: yes, but the whole point is to speed things up. Laptop drives run at 3600, 4200, and 5400. There are some 7200 rpm drives, but expect to pay out the nose. Most drives you see are 4200, maybe 5400 by now. Most PC drives are 7200 nowadays. The PS2 will take a 127GB drive, or larger if you run a patch on the HDLoader program. Forceflow: that cache only comes into play in certain circumstances. I would imagine with a PS2, it doesn’t have much time to use the cache, because games are not designed to stream very well, this is why you have load times between levels, and why adding a faster drive is better. You’re better off finding a spare 12V+ lead somewhere and using a larger capacity, faster, 3.5″ drive.

3.5″ 7200rpm have slight edge on speed, BUT the actual feed rate is determined by a matrix of rpm, track layout, sectors, head react speed, number of heads, and cache size and caching algorithm. The actual surface speed under the head and the caching efficiency seems to determine the overall speed …. but…. ANY of them are faster than reading the CD media via laser …. just my 2 cents

There is no significant technical difference between 2.5″ notebook drives and 3.5″ desktop drives other than their dimensions. While 3.5″ drives have one to four platters, the more compact notebook drives usually have only one or two. That is necessary to keep the drives below the common drive height limit of 9.5 mm. The data density of notebook drives is very high today, with a maximum per-platter capacity of 50 GB.

When it comes to maximum data transfer rates, a 2.5″ drive will never be able to compete with a 3.5″. The reason is that the fastest transfers occur on the outside of the platter, and 3.5″ platters have a larger circumference.

Ok I’ve been toying with this concept for a long time and have many alternative ideas. The teadious soldering pattern looks like a win, but a major loss when the wires are pulled out by mistake. If anyone has a PS2 1-10 and has the Network adapter try networking from the slim to just the network adapter. If somehow it recognizes it then we’re halfway to successfully using HD on slim. If that works than maybe someone with the new wireless datastorage router can get that to detect.

As for life of the laser eye. If your PS2 is dead you might be able to run an IDe and power extension through the front (cutting a hole) and using a DVD-ROM drive instead. I havn’t tested yet, but when you turn on your PS2 the Hard drive does boot up in an accessing mannor but then spins down and the DVD drive takes over….Just a thought maybe I’m crazy.

Reformat fixed!!!
just power down HD before shutting off ps2.
Also use ide cable shorter than 5″.
Also update USB1.1 speeds as slow as dvd drive,
don’t external USb prog like usbextreme not worth bothering with. This ide fix works alot better.

I have a ps2, not sure which version, with that big, empty bay sitting in it. I’d love to through an hd in there, but I don’t know the deal w/ ps2, seem to just have a lot of posts here on the pstwo. More importantly is my sweet LaCie 250GB firewire drive (design by Porche…ha). That firewire port on my ps2 is calling its name. Someone tell me if this is feasable or not

Has anyone used this hack for booting a PS2 with Linux? I was wondering if this could be a solution for the slim PS2 users, since the Linux kit doesn’t support them (lack of HD connection).

HI MY PS2 IS BROKE NOW AND I WANT TO USE MY PS2 MAXTOR HARD DRIVE ON MY PC HOW DO I REFORMAT IT

If u guys have read the post about saving ps2 games to a hard drive, im assumping that in order for the HDadvance to work, you have to do this crap. Has any one tested it out?

Something is wrong with my PS2. It can

You know, there are programs like USBAdvance and others that will allow you to utilize the usb ports on the system – that way just connect a usb harddrive (or enclosurer) to the port and you’re all set!

the URL of picture that show the PS2 IDE DIAGRAM in the page that url is : “http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000950031560″ is not found, please send me this picture to my E-MAIL ” rfbins136@yahoo.com” tanx

My ps2 (v3) laser is dead and a new laser costs same as a new ps2 just a little less at my place so i was thinking of soldering my pc IDE dvd rom to my ps2 can this be done? Are there any tutorials for it

xbox origanal console to support a hard disk
for game storeg faselities can

plss………. help me for my pstwo v4 i dont known to

how to install a hdd ide cable plsss give me a diagram plssss plssss

plssss

hi all..could someone post install diagrams for this please as i am unsure which pins represent which number..is no.1 pin representing top left pin on hard drive? and no.2 pin bottom left pin on hard drive??thanks

Hardisk 2.5 sata with IDE converter work fine with this HAck (only for scph-7xxxx6) now can you find PIN IDE for PS2 fat (running without Network Adapter)

pwede ko bang gamitin to sa ps2 fat

What model should do the HDD mod

it will work on ps2 slim SCPH-79001