PS3 60GB SD card compatability

[sandungas]

So basically... we have this for the card reader of CECHA:

Device supported in filemanager = Multiman, Iris, Managunz
Booting games from filemanager = Multiman, Iris
Booting games from game list = None

And i guess webman and sman plugins should be added in the group of "none" because doesnt have filemanager

 

[CharonPDX]

Alright, I just tested.

A CECHA-01 running stock 4.89 can recognize SD-XC cards just fine. The only limit is that they have to be FAT-32 formatted; while the "standard" for SD-XC cards is ExFAT. My PS3 happily recognizes my 1 TB SD-XC card just fine reformatted as FAT-32, and will play photos, music, and videos off it.

It also recognizes a 2 TB FAT32-formatted USB hard drive no problem on the front USB ports. (Note that it can't recognize anything larger than 2 TB because FAT32 doesn't support >2 TB without breaking things.†

That means you could have up to 12 TB of storage poking out the front of your PS3. 1 TB SD, 1 TB Memory Stick (although there were never this capacity, so you'd need a microSD to Memory Stick Duo adapter,) 2 TB CompactFlash (again, nobody made/makes a 1 TB CF, so you'd need a CF-to-SD adapter, and there are dual-microSD-to-CF adapters, so you should be able to get 2 TB in the CF slot,) plus four 2 TB USB hard drives.

If you wanted purely "stealth," you'd have to cut it to 8 TB, by using the ultra-small microSD USB adapters DeViL303 shows which would only support 1 TB microSD cards. That would cost you over $800 to outfit, though, since 1 TB microSD are hovering right at $100 each.

†More specifically, it is the "Master Boot Record" partition table (MBR) that tops out at 2 TB. To exceed 2 TB, you need to use the GUID Partition Table (GPT) that more modern UEFI-based computers use for hard drives; the PS3 doesn't support GPT, only MBR. So even though you *can* format FAT32 >2 TB, it needs to have the GPT layout, not MBR, so PS3 wouldn't support it.

 

[CharonPDX]

Update: I am sad to report that while the SD card slot supports a 1 TB SD card formatted FAT32, and the Compact Flash slot supports a 1 TB card formatted FAT32 (via an SD-to-CF adapter,) the Memory Stick slot only supports up to 128 GB. The biggest native Memory Stick ever made was the 64 GB Memory Stock Pro HG Duo HX, so honestly, I'm kind of surprised even a 128 GB SD card works via microSD-to-MSDuo adapter (meant for a PSP.) It's not the adapter - the 1 TB microSD works fine in my computer's MemoryStick reader, even an older official Sony MSAC-US40 - but neither 1 TB nor 256 GB microSD cards formatted FAT32 work via the adapter on the PS3. But it is funny seeing two 1 TB drives plus one 128 GB drive as backup targets in the PS3 settings…

(I put test files on each to make sure it could actually read, so the free space isn't the full capacity.)

 

[Seraphic]

Looks like they showed up well enough, but you are saying you can not read/write to them on the PS3? Which adapters are you using with the 1TB cards? Some reviews said the SanDisk ones are confirmed to work for 512gb and the ProDuo ones are 128gb max.

 

[CharonPDX]

I can read/write to them on the PS3. I have successfully made a backup to both a 128 GB microSD-in-MemoryStick-slot and a 1 TB microSD-in-CompactFlash-slot. Obviously also a native 1 TB SD in the SD slot.

The "SD to Compact Flash" adapter is some cheap generic one off Amazon that claimed SDXC support. It doesn't even have a manufacturer name on it anywhere.

Similarly the "microSD to Memory Stick PRO Duo" adapter is another unbranded cheap one off Amazon. It was advertised as being for PSP.

The only thing I had to do "special" was to format the SD cards as FAT32 instead of ExFAT (which is the "default" formatting for any SD card 64 GB or higher.) PS3 wouldn't recognize anything ExFAT. This does point out an interesting difference - for SD/microSD, a 64 GB card is formatted ExFAT. For a 64 GB Memory Stick (Pro HG Duo HX) FAT32 is the default.

But, I have also since discovered that PS3 only allows four storage devices. (Previously I only tried 4, the three memory cards plus one USB hard drive.) So 8 TB is the max. Four 2 TB devices connected via whatever method. As soon as I plugged in the second hard drive (with memory cards in all three memory card slots, so the second USB hard drive became a fifth device) a pop-up appeared complaining I had too many storage devices, and I needed to unplug one. As soon as I ejected the Memory Stick, the second USB hard drive showed up. (I plugged in one 2 TB USB hard drive, one 1 TB SD in SD slot, one 1 TB SD via CF adapter in the CompactFlash, then the 128 GB microSD via MS adapter in the MS slot; then plugged in a second 2 TB USB hard drive; removing the Memory Stick left me "only" 6 TB of storage, as I don't have two more 2 TB USB drives, and 2 TB SD cards don't exist yet.)