Whats speed HDD
 

should i put in a 40gb 72000 2mb western digitally HDD or a western digitally 40gb 5400 HDD.

i heard that i should put in a 5400 as the offically ps2 hdd is 5200

5200 You sure? I never heard that. I guess I could just look at it. I'm gonna just sit and go through a bunch of hard drives I guess to see what works and what doesn't. Being the IT manager, I have a few at my disposal.

Gotta finish my case mod though :p

I have a 40GB IBM 7200RPM sitting in my PS2 at the moment. Now I just have to order the HDDLoader.

how did u do that ps2s dont have ide connections

The Network Adaptor does. Just slide the IDE drive onto the adaptor and the adaptor into the expansion slot of the PS2.

oh ok doesnt it look fat?

LOL! No not at all, it just's a little box which is about 2-3CM thick on the back like this:

http://www.hdloader.com/hdloader/uploads/howto6.jpg

so with a hdd loader u could use the pressed hdd loader to load onto the hdd and then install games on the hdd that would be cool so u could play backups w/o a mod chip if the hdd is a self boot disk cause i kinda dout that the ps2 checks for protactions on the installed games

I suppose it's possible. As far as I know, it is self-boot using the same methods as the AR discs.