Going the extra mile

[Spawn]

So this isn't really anything else besides my documentation of the time and work spent to set up my PS3 just the way I want.

As I'm limited by my laptop (currently 40Gb free space), I turned my house upside down in order to find every single one of my old hdd's to try and make ends meet.

As some know, I recently decided I wanted to play my backups from an external NTFS drive using sMan, but as my 2Tb drive is packed and wouldn't allow me to change the cluster size, I had two options, give up or get up.

I chose the latter...

So, I dug out each and every one of my old broken PC's, Nas units and even an old server way way back from the deepest, darkest corners of my cellar. I managed to salvage 6 decent drives (and took the opportunity to scavenge the remains for cables etc...

So here I am, currently in the process of moving all games from the 2Tb to a bunch of smaller (160-320Gb) drives. The main goal is still to use the 2Tb drive (the only one that's in a enclosure), but I may end up patching the others together to try and make even more space to expand my library.

First transfer is on the way and the 220Gb worth of games takes about 4h to transfer. I'm in for a long run.

 

[pinky]

I hear you, man. I want to use an ntfs drive with my system, but I don't have a spare hdd available. I'm also not sure if you have to use prep ntfs on the drive. when I used that before, I could no longer view the hdd on the pc. it just showed unallocated space, so I was forced to format it. luckily, I had a backup of the drive. I'm not sure if it was due to using gpt instead of mbr or not. I may have forgotten to convert to mbr through easeus. I could, however, transfer content to and from it with irisman, so I really don't know. <shrugs shoulders>

 

[Spawn]

Well, if I read the OP correctly, in sMan there's no need for PrepNTFS or refresh XML...

Since I upgraded to rebug 4.82.1 LITE, which is missing WebmanMod, I decided to go with sMan. I have to say that I'm very pleased so far. If I manage to get my 2Tb drive working on it, I'll be good.

 

[pinky]

I think I read that as well. the only reason I'm using webman mod is for gamedata utility. I have a lot of psn games on my external hdd. I think there are over 200 on that and my internal hdd combined.

 

[Spawn]

I see.. That's a sweet collection.

Never been that enthusiastic about PSN games tho. Mostly because I just have that 1 external HDD. And I'd fill up my 1Tb internal way too fast with PSN games.

 

[Spawn]

Well, today I got lucky. My neighbor came and asked if I wanted to buy a 1Tb desktop hdd that he bought but couldn't use. Paid 5$ for it and plan to get a casing for it later on.