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My Question is; How can I defragment my PS3 Hard Disk?
I've heard there is a way using system recovery console where you hold down the power button and hear 3 beeps, but I can't get it to come up.
dude why do you need to defrag it . defragging is for putting 1000s of files back into a faster order and removing old un needed files.
ow and from your name what owner are you r32/r33/r34 :)
He could be a R35 owner :P
@whereismax123 wrote:dude why do you need to defrag it . defragging is for putting 1000s of files back into a faster order and removing old un needed files.
ow and from your name what owner are you r32/r33/r34 :)
@Nonhippyhippy wrote:
@whereismax123 wrote:dude why do you need to defrag it . defragging is for putting 1000s of files back into a faster order and removing old un needed files.
ow and from your name what owner are you r32/r33/r34 :)
He could be a R35 owner :P
isnt the r35 just the old skool name for the new GT-R
either way R32 for me ...well thats what id choose . but im happy with mr2 turbo :)
Ok that's good that it defrag's itself.
However, I do not own a skyline but have seen a GT-R in the UK.
But I hope to own a GT-R in the future.
I assume the the PS3 OS takes care of it? as there is no facilty and I have over 50gb of stuff on mine and no descernable degradation in game speed or download speed.
It may well be that IBM thought of that when the designed the software kernels and built a automatic defrag that needs no user interface...
Turning it off while doing it would do nothing but stop the defrag.
@planet_lee wrote:
I'm not so sure. If it is a background task, why isn't there an 'on-screen-prompt' that notifies the user to "NOT TURN THE SYSTEM OFF" while defragging ?
Can you imagine the damage it would cause if you turned the PS3 off (via the power button on the back) while this defragging was in action ?
I'm not to sure.
But perhaps this occurrs when you see the "rebuilding hard-drive directories" or whatever it displays once in a blue moon ?
(I've only seen this once - and it only lasted a few seconds).
I hope it does have auto defrag, but I'm not sure how it works.
Especially as it only seems to last a few seconds.
Its writing to the disk obviously, but doing it while defragging wouldn't harm it any more.
@planet_lee wrote:
Do you honestly believe that ?
Try defragging your PC hard drive then manually powering it off.
Then come back & tell me that it "would do nothing but stop the defrag"
'Hard power off' while writing to the HDD is not a good thing.
Please feel free to instruct me otherwise, as I'd always been lead to believe that it corrupts the file it is writing (at the time).
Technology may have moved on since the days that I knew what I was talking about (many moons ago ;) )
But I don't think that HDD can cope with 'power off' while writing without serious consequences.
That said, I'm totally prepared to be wrong ;)
@InfraRedPS wrote:
We don't know enough about the PS3 file system to say for sure if it even requires defragmenting or if it does it itself (unlikely as pointed out above, no 'do not power off messages') So really just forget about it and hope Sony know what they are doing :)
Well i've not noticed any reduction in performance for HDD based games, and because we aren't running an OS off it, it really shouldn't be a problem.
@Miths000 wrote:
@InfraRedPS wrote:
We don't know enough about the PS3 file system to say for sure if it even requires defragmenting or if it does it itself (unlikely as pointed out above, no 'do not power off messages') So really just forget about it and hope Sony know what they are doing :)
Yeah, because that's certainly comforting :p.
... Well, to be honest I actually do believe they have a fairly good grasp of things when it comes to hardware. Just not quite everything else :).
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