Eugene said: »
mortontony1 said: »
No more ps2 limitations? O.o
it's more like programming limitations, and for end purposes, not really.
FFXI PS2 Partition Increasing Soon?
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FFXI PS2 partition increasing soon?
Bismarck.Rydin said: » Sylph.Zohnax said: » Curious, how big are the PS2 HDDs? Iirc, they were pretty stretched with FFXI beforehand too. 40 GB and there's a lot of free space. I've got mine at 22/40 and that's with Resident Evil Outbreak data installed. So plenty of space since like no games (besides the Outbreak series that I can think of) used the HDD lol Bahamut.Jetackuu said: » certain raid formats allow it.
Eugene said: » Bismarck.Rydin said: » Sylph.Zohnax said: » Curious, how big are the PS2 HDDs? Iirc, they were pretty stretched with FFXI beforehand too. 40 GB and there's a lot of free space. I've got mine at 22/40 and that's with Resident Evil Outbreak data installed. So plenty of space since like no games (besides the Outbreak series that I can think of) used the HDD lol 22/40 used (so 18gb free), but it's not like it's an issue to delete the install data off of Outbreak File 1 and 2. I ended up moving to a ps3 a while back though. Upgraded the hdd on the 60 to 120 so I don't think space is going to be an issue. Eugene said: » certain raid formats allow it. irrelevant on the discussion of a console, really... and I still don't see how you can have a logical drive larger than your total physical drive size, regardless if it's one or multiple drives. I'd like to see it though. Bahamut.Jetackuu said: » and I still don't see how you can have a logical drive larger than your total physical drive size, regardless if it's one or multiple drives. Remember Drivespace for DOS ? I do ... All too well ... :P Bahamut.Jetackuu said: » Eugene said: » certain raid formats allow it. irrelevant on the discussion of a console, really... and I still don't see how you can have a logical drive larger than your total physical drive size, regardless if it's one or multiple drives. I'd like to see it though. I wonder what they will do about the fact that FFXI is still being compiled with the SAME SDK (software development kit) they used in the original Japanese release of FFX back in 2001 ... lol
The only thing they upgraded was network drivers. :P It works like that because RAID 0 is meant to share the workload through several drives at once. It's meant to give you performance, not space. Also because the files are split in chunks and then a chunk is sent to each drive of the array, it's called "stripe" RAID. Very wonky design in the case of data corruption you can lose the whole partition. :) After all it's purpose is performance, not security. If you want security for the data, you use RAID 1 (Mirror). :D raid 0, the exact number of files you keep if one drive goes.
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Fenrir.Mariane said: » It works like that because RAID 0 is meant to share the workload through several drives at once. It's meant to give you performance, not space. Also because the files are split in chunks and then a chunk is sent to each drive of the array, it's called "stripe" RAID. Very wonky design in the case of data corruption you can lose the whole partition. :) After all it's purpose is performance, not security. If you want security for the data, you use RAID 1 (Mirror). :D not sure why you started commenting on data redundancy though. in any event raid 1 is still an inferior way of backing up, as it prevents loss of data on physical drive failure, but not file corruption. Bismarck.Rydin said: » Sylph.Zohnax said: » Curious, how big are the PS2 HDDs? Iirc, they were pretty stretched with FFXI beforehand too. 40 GB and there's a lot of free space. I've got mine at 22/40 and that's with Resident Evil Outbreak data installed. So plenty of space since like no games (besides the Outbreak series that I can think of) used the HDD lol FFX used it too I think, at least the Japanese version did. You could install a chunk of the game to reduce loading times. Kingdom Hearts and Xenosaga too. Dirge of Cerberus was the most recent title that supported it.
Quetzalcoatl.Milliniar said: » Bismarck.Rydin said: » Sylph.Zohnax said: » Curious, how big are the PS2 HDDs? Iirc, they were pretty stretched with FFXI beforehand too. 40 GB and there's a lot of free space. I've got mine at 22/40 and that's with Resident Evil Outbreak data installed. So plenty of space since like no games (besides the Outbreak series that I can think of) used the HDD lol Yeah I ended up hitting the wiki after posting. It's still a pretty small amount (outside of Japan anyway), and iirc you can upgrade the hdd if you've still got your utility disk laying around too. I think mine's still in the big *** box that ffxi came in lol (I'm such a packrat) Bismarck.Rydin said: » Yeah I ended up hitting the wiki after posting. It's still a pretty small amount (outside of Japan anyway), and iirc you can upgrade the hdd if you've still got your utility disk laying around too. Nope, you can't as the PS2 will refuse any harddrive that is not "SONY" branded and specifically designed for use with the PS2. Before anyone chymes in about how they use an 500GB HDD on their PS2, HACKED(modified copies of pirated games)and "pirateware" (HD Loader and similar) stuff obviously does not count on this statement. SONY only ever sold 40GB HDDs worldwide for retail PS2s. That was a major gripe and is the reason why SONY kept stating that users could use any hard drive they wanted on the PS3 when it was due to release. Quite the source for confusion, no ? Fenrir.Mariane said: » Bismarck.Rydin said: » Yeah I ended up hitting the wiki after posting. It's still a pretty small amount (outside of Japan anyway), and iirc you can upgrade the hdd if you've still got your utility disk laying around too. Nope, you can't as the PS2 will refuse any harddrive that is not "SONY" branded and specifically designed for use with the PS2. Before anyone chymes in about how they use an 500GB HDD on their PS2, HACKED(modified copies of pirated games)and "pirateware" (HD Loader and similar) stuff obviously does not count on this statement. SONY only ever sold 40GB HDDs worldwide for retail PS2s. That was a major gripe and is the reason why SONY kept stating that users could use any hard drive they wanted on the PS3 when it was due to release. Quite the source for confusion, no ? I take mild offense to the concept that an HD loader is "pirateware"... some people just don't like to swap disks all the time... Bahamut.Jetackuu said: » I take mild offense to the concept that an HD loader is "pirateware"... some people just don't like to swap disks all the time... Why ? I even helped the developers of "Open PS2 loader" myself. Still it does not change the fact that it's "pirateware" as the only and sole purpose it has is allow execution of games that have been stripped out of their protection be it physical or software. Now, I have 3 GB free on my USA PS2 HDD... (the one with FFXI) I suppose I'll have to clean it up a bit ... haha Fenrir.Mariane said: » Bahamut.Jetackuu said: » I take mild offense to the concept that an HD loader is "pirateware"... some people just don't like to swap disks all the time... Why ? I even helped the developers of "Open PS2 loader" myself. Still it does not change the fact that it's "pirateware" as the only and sole purpose it has is allow execution of games that have been stripped out of their protection be it physical or software. Now, I have 3 GB free on my USA PS2 HDD... (the one with FFXI) I suppose I'll have to clean it up a bit ... haha Just because some or most people use it to pirate doesn't mean all do. Well I just have a hard time arguing for opensource software if it's only purpose is to pirate. edit: basically saying I don't considering something pirateware just because it strips drm... Fenrir.Mariane said: » Nope, you can't as the PS2 will refuse any harddrive that is not "SONY" branded and specifically designed for use with the PS2. Ah I see. It's been a few years since I'd looked up the information. I guess I didn't remember correctly lol |
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