PS2 SSD Upgrade in 2021 .. This is Awesome 😎 

Not during sequential operations, sure. It can still be beneficial during random access operations (although the games are probably structured to have as little of those as possible since PS2 is disc-based, and those have the same problem)

@@ChannelOfElveman you're right. And another +point is a SSD inside a slim 70k. After a fan-mod this thing is quiet+fast and still stays cool

The main point behind this is because SSDs will remain healthy for a much... MUCH longer time and less failure.

@@idkanymore3382 ? but when a SSD dies it dies 100% :-( old school HDDs might loose 1 or 2 games in about 6 years,and the rest will work for 4-5 years more..

@@vasopel >But bro what if it does Why do you arm chair redditors always do this claim. Listen, when you use a ps2 you are never writing files but only reading them. This means your ssd health is gonna be beyond well for a long time unless you get a defect drive.

@@h4wkッ when it has no memory card or controller, it looks very sleek

Bro the ps2 is literally two rectangles slapped together

@@capri4682exactly, very modern lmao

Eternally beautiful. ❤

⁠​⁠@@capri4682Your wrong if you have network adapter it’s three rectangles slapped together

100% you have no PS2 back in the day.

@@mharped1443 I had ps2 and didnt even knew that existed

@@TapczanZaglady well your are noob

Hiding place for the stash

@@KA_SH96 worked great!

will a 1tb ssd work on ps2?

@@Zontar82 1tb for a ps2 if over over overkill asf the games back then are really not that big, neither the OS

Damn boi u were here for 15 years

Your disc will eventually disc root

not really, emulation will forever be the best way to keep retro alive

Wdym finally? There are thousands of videos online. lol

@TheVilified UDMA6 to day

What harddrive did you get? Ive heard there is compatibility problems and really want to get one.

This is why PS2 is the best game console that ever exist.

Gamecube????

how did it run gamecube games ?

How gamecube?

haahahah indeed 😄

@@WickedGamerCollector doing it rn haha

Agreed man, mine slopps around until I upgraded

No need to 3-D print one, you can get great ones off of Amazon for a few bucks

@@TheHotwhells did you make it?

can it be used as FUSBB?

@@jbertrow1056 yes and it’s free

You don't need either anymore you can launch ULaunch from a regular burned dvd now lol

@@plossalypse old time i've used cd not dvd without using swap disk..

@@jbertrow1056 you don't need a swap disc it overloads the dvd buffer and injects unsigned code. All you gotta do is burn the dvd

Indeed. I think there is virtually 0 difference in loading times. It's just a waste of money.

@@cerveraoliver It’s just more long term lasting and most hdds back then kept going down and up on speed that will always stay max

depends on if you think overall responsiveness is worth it, as you may not have faster load times but you will have near zero seek times, making the overall experience in and out of games that bit more snappy. Besides a cheap 120gb would be fine in most cases unless you want a crap load of games on there all at once, plus given the transfer speed limitation, it can genuinely be a dirt cheap one as your main advantage of zero seek speed will still be there.

@@meh78336 Exactly. Even in older systems the SSD can make a big difference in responsiveness. In my Retro PC (with 1999-2001 parts) I have an older 120GB SSD installed using an IDE->SATA adapter and it is super responsive. Sometimes even more responsive than the 2-3 year old i5 laptops at my workplace with slow HDDs.

Fat PS2 version ?

I remember many games being choppy over LAN, especially the cutscenes. It was many years ago though. I saw with the corner of an eye there was a couple of updates for OPL since then. Is it improved in any way? Thinking about wiping the dust from my good old ps2...

@@azispratama92 yes the EE GPU fried when I hooked up a squid cable from Monoprice. All I get now is a checkerboard pattern on display. I’d like to gut it, and turn it into a mini PC.

@@sesterno Yeah, I get that too. At first I was using a USB drive on my WRT600N, now I just redirected OPL to scrub my NAS.

@Balakeh same here and i was actually convinced it read games faster than through a USB drive on my slim

Thanks buddy and your positive message 🤗

You converted the original Sony network adapter? How did you do that? Is it hard to do?

@@souljastation5463 not hard, got the IDE to sata converter off ebay and then its just a bunch of screws and a ribbon cable.

@@t0p_snek407 cool, I might do it myself, my 130GB IDE drive is getting old and I have some old 1/2 TB SATA drives that I don't know what to do with.

did they ever fix that limitation on how many games you can put on there i think it was somewhere around 130 something? not sure of the exact number.

@@fallenmedia1999 Use HDL BATCH.

IDE speeds are too slow for a SSD. Most HDD's can max it out. You really need Sata to get the most out of a SSD. But that begs the question, can the old PS2 Cpu even handle the speeds of a Sata connection.

Those ide ssd’s are just m.2 in an ide case. You can build them yourself cheaper.

You cannot connect SATA to the PS2. All the adapters you see including those in the video are IDE internally and convert IDE to SATA. There will ALWAYS be an IDE bottleneck regardless what you connect. That said - even with a mechanical IDE drive, load times will be SO much faster than running the game from disc.

@@janjohansson2567 Indeed. It's just SATA drives are more readily available, newer, more reliable etc. So, using a convertor is handy. I have an IDE and also a SATA backplane.... I've got an old Intel SSD (180GB) i'm going to use to replace the flaky old IDE (IBM deskstar) 120GB disk I use currently. Pure convenience.

Hmm, I might have missunderstood the previous comments and replied to nothing :D Indeed, there's nothing wrong with using SATA, or using an SSD over SATA (I do that myself, lots of advantages beyond game load times). Was just trying to say, just putting something SATA in there doens't give one SATA speeds.

I wonder if there is a way to do it like the old Xbox softmod. I used to use a ftp client and copied the games to my Xbox via the ftp client to the HDD.

Bro I've tried to set that up a hundred times I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong

Not if you use the network port to do it.

That’s because the PlayStation 2 isn’t equipped to take advantage of the solid states SATA speeds

I took the SSD jump to improve overall reliability and future proofing them as a console collector. I've modded my PS2/PS3 (60GB model)/PS4/Wii and Wii U and XBOX360 E to between 500GB and 1TB (256GB for PS2) all with PNY and Western Digital SSD. People need to realize it isn't about the speed or the price. It's about a reliable and quickly rebuildable storage system. Look on most consoles you can go hybrid like say on my PS4 I have a 1TB SSD for favorite games, wallpaper, themes, and apps. For large games I use a 4TB WD HD with USB 3.0 transfer, not fast but not slow entirely. If I want a fast load on a game stored in the 4TB drive, just transfer to the SSD and volia! Fast game loading. Look, mechanical hd's are cheap. But they will be phased out as who wants more mechanical parts in their console? The more you have (mechanical HD/Blu Ray/DVD) the more problems will arise. Go hybrid, an internal SSD with an external conventional large drive (4TB and up) and you have an inexpensive place to store your large games and a faster SSD to run them. It does work well at least for me, your mileage may vary. And if an older mechanical drive is not for you, just use an internal/external SSD or just a single SSD. The reliability and slight speed gain will justify the cost.

Edit: I was asked if I have an XBOX One, yes I do, but it's very difficult to shove an internal SSD and an external SSD while workable, won't give you the speed at USB 3.0 that the internal SATA interface offers. I tried a reverse hybrid (internal 1TB mechanical drive and a 1 TB external WD SSD w/USB 3.0. The result was disappointing due to communication problems with the external SSD. I would have to pull the USB cable several times to get it to recognize the drive. I think Microsoft either doesn't want you to use an SSD, or only "certain" SSD's work. I tried a WD and PNY SSD and the PNY seems to read when you turn the console on. The WD was erratic and I finally gave up with trying to use it. So the XOne is flaky and I finally just went to a 4TB USB 3.0 external. You might have better luck.

I was about to say the same thing, FreeHDBoot is a thing

Im using HDloader on my ps2, didn't know I could make the hard drive bootable the HDloader still uses the optical drive to load the menu.

​@@martinez1701a You can, their is a hard drive image you can download, special tool used to copy it to the hard drive, that simple. FYI the hard drive image includes HDloader. I don't remember the download like or tool as I got the information from a youtube video.

@@InDreamsYourMine you think it would just be better to use freemcboot and just access it through the memory card, it uses hdloader anyway right?

@@martinez1701a Don't know of Free-mcboot memory card uses HDLoader, but booting from hard drive gives the advantage of both memory card slots available for use.

Yeah, the biggest reason to do this with an SSD would be to breathe new life into the console and to possibly get a longer living drive.

Wrong the sdd woukd still be faster then the hdd as the ssd is faster accessible then the reading disks

You are failing to realize there is zero seek time, and no buffering

@@Gold171 so, whatever, still limited to ide speed

yes it does limited because its in IDE mode but still the ssd is way faster than HDD even in IDE mode.

They’ve probably been around for 15 years at this point lol what are you talking about

And their sweatshops

@@snoopdoggthecertifiedg6777 some people like me are kids when ps2 is released. this is the first time I see the adapter. if you know it since years ago, it's pretty cool

@@thankyouverymochi ahhhh I gotcha

I don’t think Chinese can do this work. That usually been created by European or Russian.

If you can't fix this with gaffa you haven't used enough.

Sorry forget to mention that happend in my dreams 🤣 I had a wild dream in 1999 ... 😂

PS2 has pure IDE. So it's IDE SPEED. No Improvements at all. The SSD is lighter, runs maybe cooler and It's noisless...that's all. But if It's die, than DIES 100%

@@mr.electronx9036 well there is a very marginal and in some cases debatable speed increase but nothing worth wasting an SSD on

That game looks even better on Xbox Classic 😄

Starting at around 40 you begin to interchange dates as old memory is getting loose... hell, i don't even remember how i came to wake up in my own bed this morning, why i have a headache and what happened to that bottle of Tequilla i bought yesterday...

Yeah I just call it brain farts that's why I named my second channel ... Wicked Brain Fart 🤣🤣

Yes, they are making some awesome hardware and new software for oldschool consoles 😄

You'd hope so.

As a former OPL developer, I disagree. We have to shy away from rotational drives because the storage capacity to price is on borrowed time. Has been for years. Shoddy internals and Shingled Magnetic Record (SMR) is leading to higher failure rates, and when you factor in the costs in warranty shipping -- including downtime -- the storage capacity to price ratio starts to become illusive. With a 2TB capacity limit on the PS2 and PS3, any large capacity rotational 5400RPM laptop drive is more likely to die of failure before you even fill it, and that's provided that you can even find these 2TB drives going forward as 4TB, 6TB, and 8TB drives dominate the market. A small 500GB to 1TB SSD won't grant any speed increases (except in a PS4/PS4 Pro), but it will give you peace of mind knowing that it's not going to up and die on you, and that's especially true if the SDD supports TRIM natively in the firmware. Don't need an AHCI for that!

FHDB will fail on modchipped consoles

@@RealStab Why would anyone mod chip a console? There is FMCB, it's abusing a firmware upgrade routine IIRC - that was never used.

Even at IDE speeds, an SSD is much, much, much faster than an HDD at random reads. Benchmarks clearly show this. Even the fastest modern HDD can’t saturate the bus with small files and random reads, whereas an SSD will keep the bus saturated 100% of the time. On a PS2, an HDD can only read small files around 0.2MB/s, whereas an SSD will read at the full 33MB/s, over 100 times faster. Obviously most console reads aren’t random, but there are still enough small file reads that you can clearly measure the difference. Not to mention less heat and less power usage/noise.

All good points @@joemamr710 I can indeed see there would be benefits over a HDD. Thanks!

The same here. 🤣

Watching this video while playing PS2 fat with internal HDD 😂

Get an ssd that doesn't suck

@@9inchpp I only buy samsung, they still die faster than my mechanical drives, might not be everybody thats why I said in my experience.

@@Natei strange. Had my seagate 2tb and Samsung 850 evo bought at the same time, seagate clicking and beeping and no longer shows in bios/windows Evo still going fine. 130tbw on the Samsung ssd Got a 980 Pro now, and a western digital 3tb black, and a barracuda 4tb

I still have a terrible 300go HDD from 2008. It sucks but it still lives like in its younger days. It's been more than 13 years.

Did see that one coming back maybe indeed great way to do that in the next video 🤗

Nice,I might pick one of those up.

Just jump back on... i pick up all sorts of systems for around €20 in Rhein-Main Area, mod & flip them... it's still going strong 💪

@@anno5936 someone sent me a ps2 😉

@@zockeromi1970 a secret admirer ?

@@anno5936 not secret - a huge and very nice supporter of my channel 😉

@@zockeromi1970 👍👍👍 glad to see you set up, waiting for a video to drop... if you need anything else, just ask your fine community 😉

Did you know on the Xbox Classic combined with component cable it looks SUPER nice ?

@@WickedGamerCollector Nice. I didn't know that. Thank you

What compability issued did you had? I run a off the shelf Western Digital

honestly its the best to keep ur ps2 living longer LESS HEAT

its all been done already... whats left?

Pimp my PS2 .. that can be a fun idea 🤗

That sounds awesome😎

Makes no difference.

One huge advantage people tend to forget: - NOISE also you can drop the ssd and the data will be fine.

yup .. also another awesome way 😅

Fun fact... alleen NL horen dat ook meteen 😄

@@WickedGamerCollector zeker waar

Definitely 👍.