The memory cards are the first to be read upon booting, the hard drive bay is last. It's about 10-15 seconds longer for FHDB compared to FMCB.Hi everyone,
Just signed up, specifically to bring this thread back to life a bit I'm about to embark on this setup, I have all of the hardware ready. But the one thing that I have not found info about, is booting from a memory card vs. booting from the HDD. I have a memory card ready to go, and another tutorial (for a smaller size HDD) on Youtube said that booting from the card is much faster than from the HDD.
I'm planning on filling up the 2TB with games, my question is: has anyone tried using a card to boot everything up? Stick with FMCB on the card, set it to automatically load OPL from the card (I think you can do this?), and then see the games. Does it speed anything up, or slow down, or something else? I'm not worried about running out of memory card space - I have a second card available, and I won't end up with too many save games on there, I don't usually keep them for long after beating the game.
Any info would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
Booting the OPL .ELF is the same whether it's from the memory card or the HDD. Reading the list of games on OPL/HDloader takes time; the more games there are, the slower the read time.