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yay, i did it, i installed the 1TB HDD
3 months ago
I know it's nothing to write home about for someone who is not an idiot like me n.n, (it is just connecting 2 SATA cables) but i am proud of myself. I'll take whatever morale boost i can get...i had been wanting to since, nearly a month...but my dad never got around to it, and i didn't think they'd trust me with the phillips screwdriver, it took all of 10 minutes if that. Thanks to boorderp's generous donation, now my pc is back to the one that burnt out in 2022, maybe slightly better (just needed the 1TB of storage space it used to have, and, well, i spent extra for a PSU because the one that came with my budget pc, i was unsure about, and after what happened last time, i better be safe than sorry.)
Added with the GTX 1050 Ti...i am set!!!
Thank you for the donations u.u*
Now that my PS3 broke down, i was thinking maybe buying a 2TB drive one someday, and reinstall all my old ps3 era games on it: https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/int.....amp;sid=search
I wonder if it's ok to spend $159,000 out of the $700,000 i have saved over nearly a year...i just want to secure funds for reparations on my roof and door (the dental health problem may be a bit too far away)
Added with the GTX 1050 Ti...i am set!!!
Thank you for the donations u.u*
Now that my PS3 broke down, i was thinking maybe buying a 2TB drive one someday, and reinstall all my old ps3 era games on it: https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/int.....amp;sid=search
I wonder if it's ok to spend $159,000 out of the $700,000 i have saved over nearly a year...i just want to secure funds for reparations on my roof and door (the dental health problem may be a bit too far away)
It would have been very confusing to me, to know what cable did what (I understood the SATA cable had the L-Shaped connector, yet there were 2 of them chained together which threw my dumb self off.) and i had no recourse from my father who is more tech savvy when it comes to hardware than myself n.n,,,
So i have to say thank you, i was relieved and, as silly as this may sound, a little proud to have been able to do it myself...
I tend to buy laptops because they are prebuilt, ready to go and powerful enough.
My dad, too, was the one to take a computer building course and then brought home the tower 286 with all the parts uninstalled.
But me? I have tackled a PS3 and PS5 HDD swap. And that is all. But then, those just slide right in. You Tube 'how to's also help a ton.
I recently bought another SSD (This one is 2TB) which i hope to install...after many of the fighting games were installed, the 1TB one is almost full already n.n,
I really need to consider getting mine serviced. The internal battery is really aged and retains a little too much data.
This one probably has no chance (it blinks red, then yellow then green the n turns off)
Reballing may give it a few more weeks/months of life but it's hard to find someone who does that in my country...and if it's the NEC TOKINS chips/capacitors,that's no good because there are no replacement for them here, i don't think...
And that is why I said 'Depends on how it died.' If it is that stupid gel, it's both easy and not to replace. But... these are electronics. Parts get old and frail.
And don't get me started on 2000 era caps. Those things just nuke down with age, regardless of what you do. 2000 era PlayStations and X-Boxes are both vulnerable.
so i feel "i am doomed and this is it i have no recourse."
Again, I suspect that flawed gel that it loves so much.
Still, I have a million old games hanging around. And my PS3 slim is right in front of me. So I may be preparing to keep the retro with newer gear. Yet, I can't just let go of the past, either. Regardless of how much space it is all taking up.
I am not interested in letting go of the past, i am a staunch fan of retrogaming and wanted to have a library of games from the 70's up to the 2000's and maybe even 2010's at this point. With the custom firmware ps3 it was great, because i had the entirety of the ps2 era library, aswell as the psx era, but also ps3 era. I know i can emulate PSX, and i need to check for ps2 emulation but i think it may run acceptably. But for the ps3 generation, i will have to depend on PC ports and such.
Even though my PS1 is down and the drive is old, I still have a ton of discs for it, despite my thoughts leaning towards exchanging the drive for a memory card.
I don't know about the future, where it all becomes digital download that migrates to cloud based hosting and AI things that just build your games on the fly. Can't do a thing about that. But I can hang on to the physical games from the past... until I finally cave in and cash them in.