The PS3 interface is slow and bad (oh and I got one)
9th November 2016, 7:01 PM
USB 1.0/1.1 was designed without file transfer in mind. My own keyboard dates from that time period and is a 1.1 device (I just recently cleaned the entire thing in and out, and it sure needed it). For keyboards and mice, the speed of 1.1 far exceeds anyone's use case (by the time you're typing fast enough for it to be an issue, you've probably already set your keyboard on fire). USB 2.0 came later when they realized just how important file transfer would be for the spec. USB 3.0 and 3.1 are great, but I've been rather disappointed to see how slowly a number of devices have been to adopt it. Are there even any web cams that use 3.0 yet? I mean, with 4KHD and 120 Htz, it sure would be useful at this point to handle all that data in a fast manner, perhaps without compression.
If you're curious, flash drives are crazy fast compared to hard discs. In fact, on most PCs (including my own), the biggest modern bottleneck is the hard disk speed. I do ultimately intend to replace my 4TB drive with a flash drive (it'll be a much more convenient setup if I can just move over a partition than if I had to reinstall Windows completely just to set up a Windows partition on a much smaller flash drive). Right now, 4TB drives cost about as much as a cheap car. So, I'm waiting a few years for prices to become more reasonable. Hopefully I won't fill up this drive before then :D. Eh, who am I kidding? Games these days take up like 50GB each. I'll have it full by the end of next year.
Oh, you were asking about why your model PS3 doesn't even let you "see" the flash once you've got the hard drive installed. I think I covered this above, but here's my take on it. I think it was simple lazy coding and a lazy workaround. As I said, the OS is partially installed on the system's hard drive. The OS also makes the assumption there is only one hard drive. Your model is likely set up so that, in order to prevent confusing the OS, "hides" the "flash" hard drive when another is physically installed. That way, the OS never tries to install updates to the wrong area. They may also have it set up so that this flash partition still has that OS data, so when the added hard drive is removed, it can still boot back to that flash partition in a pinch. Contrast that with how the OS handles devices plugged into either the memory card ports on my model or through a USB port. Those are never used to boot the system in any situation, not even an emergency like if the hard drive is removed, so there's never any chance the OS could get confused (they would also be "flagged" internally in very different ways). Lazy, yes, but I think that's what they likely decided on.
We've talked about the whole "gives you cancer" wifi fears before, but I really want to reiterate that simply saying "we don't have all the science in" (no matter how often and how many tests come back showing that no, once again, wifi doesn't appear to cause any illness) is not a good attitude. This is something I've seen a lot in a very certain wing of liberals (and, frankly, a very certain similarly minded set of conservatives around here in Oklahoma, where you can find a chiropractic clinic for every church). Certain liberal minded people will claim to be pro-science on issues of climate change and evolution, but go totally fringe when it comes to their thoughts on psychiatric medication or vaccines. The science completely disproves their fears on the later, but they dismiss that with arguments absolutely IDENTICAL to arguments people against climate change or evolution use to dismiss the scientific consensus on those topics. Fears on the dangers of cell phone radiation, to me, are no different than fears about vaccines. It's kinda beyond the scope of a thread on buying a PS3, but if you want my opinion, I don't think there's anything to worry about, nor do I think there's some major gap in knowledge that needs to be filled before reaching that conclusion.
If you're curious, flash drives are crazy fast compared to hard discs. In fact, on most PCs (including my own), the biggest modern bottleneck is the hard disk speed. I do ultimately intend to replace my 4TB drive with a flash drive (it'll be a much more convenient setup if I can just move over a partition than if I had to reinstall Windows completely just to set up a Windows partition on a much smaller flash drive). Right now, 4TB drives cost about as much as a cheap car. So, I'm waiting a few years for prices to become more reasonable. Hopefully I won't fill up this drive before then :D. Eh, who am I kidding? Games these days take up like 50GB each. I'll have it full by the end of next year.
Oh, you were asking about why your model PS3 doesn't even let you "see" the flash once you've got the hard drive installed. I think I covered this above, but here's my take on it. I think it was simple lazy coding and a lazy workaround. As I said, the OS is partially installed on the system's hard drive. The OS also makes the assumption there is only one hard drive. Your model is likely set up so that, in order to prevent confusing the OS, "hides" the "flash" hard drive when another is physically installed. That way, the OS never tries to install updates to the wrong area. They may also have it set up so that this flash partition still has that OS data, so when the added hard drive is removed, it can still boot back to that flash partition in a pinch. Contrast that with how the OS handles devices plugged into either the memory card ports on my model or through a USB port. Those are never used to boot the system in any situation, not even an emergency like if the hard drive is removed, so there's never any chance the OS could get confused (they would also be "flagged" internally in very different ways). Lazy, yes, but I think that's what they likely decided on.
We've talked about the whole "gives you cancer" wifi fears before, but I really want to reiterate that simply saying "we don't have all the science in" (no matter how often and how many tests come back showing that no, once again, wifi doesn't appear to cause any illness) is not a good attitude. This is something I've seen a lot in a very certain wing of liberals (and, frankly, a very certain similarly minded set of conservatives around here in Oklahoma, where you can find a chiropractic clinic for every church). Certain liberal minded people will claim to be pro-science on issues of climate change and evolution, but go totally fringe when it comes to their thoughts on psychiatric medication or vaccines. The science completely disproves their fears on the later, but they dismiss that with arguments absolutely IDENTICAL to arguments people against climate change or evolution use to dismiss the scientific consensus on those topics. Fears on the dangers of cell phone radiation, to me, are no different than fears about vaccines. It's kinda beyond the scope of a thread on buying a PS3, but if you want my opinion, I don't think there's anything to worry about, nor do I think there's some major gap in knowledge that needs to be filled before reaching that conclusion.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)