PSP 40GB HDD?? Is it Possible?

[ThatOneGuy]

Hello to all, i know the topic may seem far fetched but just listen to what i have to say.

First, take a look at this article

http://www.natrium42.com/blog/?p=39



Second, take a look at this article.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/thum...2005/9/29/1386



Now, I ask to all the psp modders of this forum, Would there be a way to use the knowledge gained from these two projects and create a really cool storage solution for psp. I think this has potential but i dont have the ability to put the plan into action, or the funds But if someone took interest in this idea...it could solve some storage issues.

[Newtype]

It's been done before. Someone from Acidmods removed the UMD drive and placed a small hard drive in the space left. He had a youtube video showing off the connectivity in IRshell. As far as anyone was concerned, it was more a proof-of-concept than a practical mod, but he said he was going to refine the concept.

[ThatOneGuy]

yeah i saw that vid...think that used some edited prx's. special storage system or something like that....nothing was ever released.

i do realize that this type of mod would make the psp "not so portable" just want to know if it would work

[Jim_Fear]

I wonder if anyone has thought of incorporating a 100GB Toshiba 1.8" drive? ATA and Compact Flash are semi compatible so maybe a bit of soldering could hook one of these small drives up to one of those converters that NEO sell and hook they straight up to the MS DUO slot, maybe even incorporate some kingd of spring mechanism that allows MS DUO cards to still be used and just breaks the contact between the CF converter and the MS DUO headers in the PSP?

I'll see about the compatibility, good thing is a friend of mine is an electronics genious so I can pick his brains.

[Xaijin]

Uhh... compact flash is based on ATA technology. All the pins are there, and it uses the same type of controller.

[Scorpus]

There has been LOTS of threads and stuff on this matter.

NO-ONE has managed to do it ('cept that :/ mod on Acidmods)

[drdank]

Originally Posted by Jim_Fear

I wonder if anyone has thought of incorporating a 100GB Toshiba 1.8" drive? ATA and Compact Flash are semi compatible so maybe a bit of soldering could hook one of these small drives up to one of those converters that NEO sell and hook they straight up to the MS DUO slot, maybe even incorporate some kingd of spring mechanism that allows MS DUO cards to still be used and just breaks the contact between the CF converter and the MS DUO headers in the PSP?

I'll see about the compatibility, good thing is a friend of mine is an electronics genious so I can pick his brains.

i was just thinking about something like that ...i have 2 Toshiba 120GB External USB drives ... the small end that connects to the drive is compatible with the PSP so that got me thinking about being able to loads games off 1 of these drives....i'd never have to swap anything on and off my mem stick again AHAHAHAHAHA

[Mac2468]

Good job on bumping a 2 month old thread that had nothing to do with anything, people need to let the hard drive thing die. "Will it work?" I don't know who don't you not be lazy and find out yourself?

[igotapencil]

I remember seeing some one using a ipod for storage somewhere, on the front page of psp-hacks, i think it was last year.

[Mac2468]

Originally Posted by igotapencil

I remember seeing some one using a ipod for storage somewhere, on the front page of psp-hacks, i think it was last year.

iPod to IRShell via some fancy USB cable, never got to try it, my ipod is fucked anyway.