HDD for PS2
January 19, 2003
Okay, so I did it. I put a hard drive in my PS2. And guess what? Nothing happened. The disk spun up and there would be occasional activity on the IDE bus, but nothing beyond that. I was hoping there’d at least be a new menu option or something that showed up. Oh well…
Just FYI in case anyone feels like playing with it, a Quantum 840MB disk fit in there perfectly. I would have tried something bigger, but that is all I had to play with. See the previous post for information on the Maxtor disk.
I don’t think the ROM software on the PS2 directly supports the hard disk. Otherwise they’d let you write save data from pre-PS2-HD games (like the XBox, I think) to it, probably a smart move so that they could keep selling $25 8 meg flash cards.