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walsufnir on 24 June 2013
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ethomaz said:

walsufnir said:

No you don't need to - the encryption itself has so many variables you can just use the stuff they provide for you and adjust the needed variables for your needs. No modifying of code required. And you can be sure this time the encryption is implemented well :D Still, I doubt PS4 is not hackable but we will see. Will be interesting times!

I think PS4 will be even more hard to hack than PS3... not impossible of course but Sony leaned a lot of hacking this gen lol

And to add a little more about the previous subject...

The PS3 HDD is a 2.5" SATA Notebook HDD - 5400RPM MAX. 

The PS3 File system is Fat32 derived; w/LBA48 enabled Bios.

The HDD is encrypted with a Sony proprietary format, each HDD is individualized and an interesting block pattern occurs after 380MB.

The HDD is encrypted with a (most probably) Sony proprietary format.

That is the best "explanation" I found in a Spanish forum from a Brazilian guy but he wrote everything in English because it didn't speak Spanish lol.

He was trying to read the PS3 HDD.

http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_ps3-hd-data-format-partitions-data-etc_881059

The curious part is that one "Each HDD is "individualized" the moment it is formatted on a particular PS3 unit. An individualized HDD CANNOT be used in another PS3 unit due to (in theory) a unit based signature being written to each HDD."

It is true... you need to use the backup utility to move your data to another PS3 or HDD... just a HDD to HDD full data copy on PC don't work.

PS. The "w/LBA48 enable BIOS" is to support files over 4GB on FAT32.


Ah yes, nice find, ethomaz. Well still we don't know if he is right ;)

But LBA48 is required for big hard-drives, not for files >4 GB :)

Either way, it is nice that we get some info on ps4 on the technical side!