Largest Capacity USB DRIVE?
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I am planning on switching over and storing all of my ROMs on a USB Flash Drive. I am going to have 100+ PSX games, so I need a lot of storage. Is there a cap on the size of USB Flash Drive I can use? Does it get laggy or buggy at a certain point or capacity? Are there any particular Drives that are generally recommended?
Thanks!
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@SeTzX i use a 1tb drive with 1301 playstation roms taking up about half of the drive and the rest of my roms take up about 250gb so i still have room to add more.
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@edmaul69 is this an external hard drive or what? wouldn't that draw power from the pi? can you link me to the specific drive please?
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@SeTzX here is the drive i use. I use a powered usb hub now but i ran it for a quite a while without it. Running it without a hub sometimes i had to restart emulationstation to get all the gamelists to show. You can use any usb 3.0 hard drive hooked up directly but a usb 2.0 drive requires a hub.
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@edmaul69 I think you forgot the link for the drive?
ALSO, I know you cannot say exactly how, but for the 1000+ PS games, did you get/add them all one by one individually and add them or get them all at once? If you had to DL them all one by one, that is an insane amount of time effort and work! Also, what is the process for generating .cue files for all those games at once?Thanks so much for the help!
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@edmaul69 Also, what exactly do you mean by a "powered USB hub"? can you link me one?
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@SeTzX i downloaded them individually as many as i could at a time. Took about a week. Here is the link:
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@SeTzX as far as powered hubs i try to avoid really cheap powered hubs. You get what you pay for. I personally like using the powered usb hubs for rockband. (The ones that have four ports in a row and come with a power cord) you need to make sure it comes with a power cord. Otherwise its just a standard usb hub that gets its power from the system.
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@edmaul69 Would this one be good?
https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Individual-Switches-included-HB-UMP3/dp/B00TPMEOYM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1482978111&sr=8-3&keywords=powered+usb+portAlso, what does the USB hub do vs just plugging it directly in?
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@SeTzX hub supplies the power to the hub allowing more power resources for the pi. Those hubs are good. However, i think there are issues with the pi and usb 3.0 hubs. I think you need a usb 2.0 hub
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@edmaul69 What hub do you personally use with your harddrive? I thought that you had said you need USB 3.0... I am very confused here...
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@SeTzX get a USB 2 hub. Powered. I bought an Amazon USB 3 thinking I would "future proof" it .. total waste of time. The Pi will not even see a USB 3 hub. Get an Amazon basics 4 Port powered Usb 2 hub. If you need it; shouldn't be too much.
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@SeTzX the hard drive has to be a usb 3.0 to use without a hub. Not as good as using a powered hub though. (Pi doesnt use 3.0. The hard drives just require less power than a usb 2.0 hard drive) to use a hub it has to be a 2.0 hub. I use a powered rockband four port hub that has the four ports in a row. But you need to make sure you get a powered one. The guy above this post recommended a good one as well
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@edmaul69 So a USB 2.0 Hub will still work with a 3.0 Drive, correct?
Is this a good option: https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Port-USB-Power-Adapter/dp/B00DQFGJR4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1483133842&sr=8-3&keywords=usb+2.0+hub+5v
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@SeTzX yes and yes.
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