PS2 SSD Upgrade in 2021 .. This is Awesome 😎

hey guys welcome back to the channel it's awesome thank you tuning in so in this video we're going to take a closer look at one of my favorite consoles ever the playstation that model so stay tuned and let's give away [Music] so let's go back to 1999 when i got my first playstation 2 and yep it was the first antivirus of that model i don't own it anymore and the reason why is quite simple this model the first edition was having some issues when it comes really to the first models so what you're seeing here is the first model but it's more like a later revision that has more like all the issues like vacuum cleaner sound better lasers and these things are still surviving nowadays in 2021 but we're not here for me talking about how i fell in love with my playstation 2 in 1999 no my friends we're going to use an ssd inside my playstation 2. let's see how it works out and is this worth picking up or with picking up an ssd and the stuff that you're going to need okay to begin with you can get yourself an old-school original sony network adapter that has the capability of adding in hard drive to it sadly the original one only supports an idea and ideas are very slow there are let's say quite expensive because these things are very hard to find in bigger sizes if you can even find one that is still working another option you have is the gamestar sata adapter that you can get and you can combine with an ssd i did read here and there that there were some problems with this so another option you also can do is making a conversion kit or buying a conversion kit and basically converting your original one so what you can do is like unscrew the eo shielding and get yourself a kit so the convergence to from the ada to sata so you're going to get the right connections like the one that you're going to get from china maybe this is a better option something you need to consider for yourself but the game star so far i worked with it they work fine and in this video we're going to hook up an ssd to it just to see how it's going to be working out in the previous video we talked about getting in zeta drive what i like about the seder drives they are super cheap they are really cheap to get because there are tons of them one terabyte are super cheap to get and when it's chipped to the chip chip wicket loves it of course you can get yourself an old 2.5 inch maybe from an old laptop they're a little bit more expensive do of the form factor but with of course the old hard drive in combination with the network adapter it works all fine and can just slide it in straight away but you're also going to need to make yourself a free macbood memory card you can get these things for very cheap nowadays so that's something you need to consider if you're going to buy one and plug it in but you need to have this set you need to have the hard drive adapter and the framework booth and the combination of these three we can do some magic with the playstation 2. but first let's add some files to it we're going to need a docking station and a computer of course and let's add some games to this ssd okay so let's set up the hard drive in this case the ssd let's open up the program itself oh i'm just using this old program and when i understand of that is up to one terabyte it works fine above that it will not work at all and we need to get ourselves a different program but for this video it will do just fine i'm rather gamer and man i love these retro programs in the windows 10 the consideration i open up press right click and use it as administrator otherwise it doesn't recognize your hard drive so in this setup i'm having only two drives one was my main and the other one is the drive that we're going to use for opl or the playstation 2. already formatted i will show you again how you need to do it always be very careful that you click on the right version otherwise you're going to mess up another drive okay so i'm choosing the 11 gigabyte that is the ssd what we're going to do is format it putting it in the right format if you don't do this otherwise you're going to get an error or you're going to get some issues with the hard drive itself and give you a couple of warnings you need to press it a couple of times okay when formatted that's it so next up let's add some games to it the only thing you need to do is add files and that's it the only thing you need to do is adding our files transferring it with the program because the program is more card-like and portal if you hook up your sata drive to your pc it's not like and drag and drop it into the hard drive okay so the ssd is ready it has been formatted in the right format otherwise the playstation 2 can't use it i made some iso files added it to the ssd and let's have some fun let's see if it boots up and let's see how fast it is before we're going to play some games i just want to point out quickly so why should you consider having an ssd so first of all a platter drive can have some issues over time when they're getting older you can get bad clusters and eventually they will break it's just a fact it's just inevitable and when you're going to format and program an ssd what i like about these things they have a very long lifespan you don't have all the issues with the normal drive and don't forget energy consumption is also less so we're going to get a little bit less wear on the adapter that is inside the playstation 2. the only downside i think is that this device is not made for a 2.5 inch drive so what you're going to get is this so yeah that is not a really convenient thing and what you're going to get when you're plugging it in in the end it will wiggle around and this is something you don't want to so i did notice online we're going to get adapters that we can get from 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch didn't get one from the video but just wanted to give you like an idea and when you're doing this you have the same measurements like yup and 3.5 inch drive i think that will be way better in combination also like the adapter is at the same time and cooling elements so you're going to get a little bit better cooling for your ssd so in my opinion that's a win-win i just quickly want to point out i'm going to use this playstation 2 hdmi and this option is very cheap i see my connector is a little bit crooked don't know why it is but one of the best options if you ask me but if you want to see a full video consider subscribing hit the bell and check out the video i made of all the places to solutions for 2021 alright so let's remove my memory card not number one but i'm going to use it in my slot number two and i'm going to use here the free macbooth for unlocking the playstation 2 more like a soft mod so there's no much if needed super convenient and this the one is already ready to go it says usb don't mind it it doesn't matter because this bad boy will work just fine if your free macbooth drive works like a charm this is the menu that you're going to get looks very similar like the original one but only we're going to get different options okay i want to point out this one has been set up so every program i think when i say you know all of them but most of them like the hd loader they are over here including some emulators if you want to mess around with that but we're going to use open playstation 2 loader or opl the ssd has been recognized all the games that i added to the hard drive i have been recognized too and we're ready to boot up so let's try some games let's see how they are loading up because oh yeah sd needs to be very fast alright so for the first game we're going just going to see what a two-dimensional fighter how fast the loading times are normally within disc they're not even that long but i'm thinking this will be me almost instantly if they are like faster than ssds compared with a hard drive we can do it like a side-by-side comparison in the future so consider subscribing and hit that little bell okay so next up let's play the game black just to see how the loading times are with this one just going to put it on 30 hertz i just want to put it like this because it's all about the load times i want to see how fast you are okay let's start a mission yep easy that was easy loading loading loading i think you need to put side by side with the usb and normal hard drive to see what are the differences we're still having some loading times with this game and of course we need to double check them later on within disk how fast they actually are i played this game a couple of times on my playstation 2 portable and i must say that the losing time seems to be equally fast yeah i know don't mind it i haven't set them easy okay next up another fighting game i've seen this game couple of times regarding the gameplay but also when it comes to the loading screens and here you can see like it's almost instant okay guys so this was my video about the ssd upgrade in your playstation in 2021 i think it's a really cool way to play if you're having like an ssd and like an older one a smaller one laying around it's a fun thing to do especially when these metalfitty boots you can make them yourself and they are super cheap to buy but when you want to buy one here in my opinion we're going to get the biggest problem let's say you want to get yourself one terabyte they are still very expensive in 2021 if you want to get one normal hard drives are super cheap to get especially when they are used or slightly used and that is i think the biggest problem when i'm having with an ssd let me know what you think of this what do you think of an ssd insider places 2 in 2021 want to thank you for watching consider subscribing hit that little bell become on the wicked family and i will see you in the next video and don't forget to [Music] like you

Channel: Wicked Gamer & Collector

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Length: 10min 40sec (640 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 03 2021