Recent content by Bowi

Thanks, Berion!

Interesting. What are they for? One has to be the 2GiB (or something) of cache, right?

I do have an SSD in my PS3, but I understand why people are asking questions. The PS3 doesn't support the SATA "TRIM" command, and this can apparently be a problem. I don't really know much about that though... I don't know what is worse in a PS3: An SSD which is unsupported by the PS3, or a...

PS3 internal drive. I never owned a 4Kn drive, so I might be wrong. (Sorry, I meant "PS3".)

Actually, I'm not sure using a 4Kn (native 4096-byte-per-sector) on a PS3 (sorry, originally wrote "PS4") is even possible, but, AFAIK, 4Kn HDD are exclusive to large HDDs like WD Red Pro and other NAS drives.

Here is something I'm currently reading: https://www.datacore.com/blog/stories-from-the-bit-shift-or-what-means-512n-vs-512e-vs-4kn-vs-flash-pages/

I'm not sure I understand your question. There is no benefit when using 512e instead of proper native 512-byte-per-sector HDD. I mean that most—if not all—current personal hard disk drives, while being advertised as 4066-byte-per-sector, also support 512-byte-per-sector emulation. I don't...

Isn't it what 512e is about? Those drives will emulate the behaviour or an older 512-byte-per-sector HDD.

This is such an interesting topic, yet there's a second topic: Advanced Format. I'll let you google about it. However, considering that very late PS3 units shipped with a 500 GB HGST (that's a brand) hard disk drive using Advanced Format 512e, I think using "512e" HDDs is fine. So... Back to...

IIRC, 500 GB SSDs have 12 GB or something similar for overprovisioning. This is not a lot, but this might be enough for a PS3 as long as the user doesn't start deleting/reinstalling/etc. games for no reasons... I read that the PS3 has something like a 2 GB swapfile, so maybe that is small enough...

Thanks. I don't personally plan to put a "premium" SSD in my PS3 because good HDDs are still about the same price (C$56-70) as cheap DRAM-less SSDs. (And I prefer a good HDD over DRAM-less.) Also, since Digital Foundry and other news outlets already showed that latest SuperSlim models had...

Sorry to "necro", but why should we avoid to pay for an SSD with a DRAM buffer? Someone told that in a previous comment and I don't understand.