Hardware Removing the UMD drive?

[kk360]

Good day to all, I recently purchased a psp 1000 on ebay for 40$, declared broken (umd drive doesn't read properly), but all in all, works perfectly fine. I installed CFW, got a few games and homebrew on there and it's great.

The screen is kinda scratched up, not annoyingly but in due time I will more than likely replace the full housing, so my question is this. While I've got the thing opened up, is it worth removing the UMD? Will it prolong my battery life even if it's never really in use?

 

[Rydian]

By far the biggest drain with the drive is powering the motor. If there's no disc in it, the motor never spins (that shit is loud, you'd hear it), so nobody bothers outside of mods like replacing the UMD interface with a second memory card reader.

 

[kk360]

Would it be worth taking it out for weight purposes?

 

[Rydian]

It's not really heavy/big enough to matter in my opinion.

 

[kk360]

Well I just removed it anyway, I gotta say the difference is noticeable, I'd say it's worth it. I would of felt dumb if I'd damaged my system though.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Well I just removed it anyway, I gotta say the difference is noticeable, I'd say it's worth it. I would of felt dumb if I'd damaged my system though.

While you were in there, you could have replaced it with a 1.8" HDD for lots of space for games. I've seen someone do a mod like that, and I'm pretty sure there were instructions to go with it.

 

[kk360]

Don't really see a point to doing that. It would add extra weight and I've got a 16gb card that's plenty for me. More games than I can handle actually. Also, HDDs are much slower than flash memory.