I Put A GPU on the PS5

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Timestamps!
0:00 - Intro
3:41 - Getting GPU Set Up
4:47 - Powering on the GPU & PS5
5:42 - Explaining to Sony What I'm Doing
6:33 - Testing the GPU
7:31 - Setting up the High Point RAID Card
8:50 - Test 2 with Power This Time
9:18 - Loading Up All 4 Ports
10:08 - Cleansing the PS5
11:31 - Setting up the RAID Off Camera
12:43 - Bad Thought Of How To Get It To Work
13:56 - Conclusion

Presenter: Brett Sticklemonster
Videographer: Brett Sticklemonster
Editor: Anonymouse
Thumbnail Designer: Reece Hill

[_ist]

I never enjoyed watching a person not do what they were hoping to this much. Truly entertaining and interesting content. Love UFD and Hot News!

[santinojoshuatorre]

Sony CS Rep asked to work on Brett's ticket: "wtf was this guy on?"

[bluegizmo]

The PS5 will be awesome once modders crack it and enable homebrew. We'll be able to build kernels with drivers for stuff like this!

[a.j.haverkamp]

Format 1 SSD in the PS/5 and check it in your pc to see which filesystem it is using. Populate the Highpoint controller with all 4 SSDs in your pc and format it to the same filesystem that the PS/5 is using. If that is possible because the PS/5 might be using a (l)inux filesystem. Maybe that helps.

[thephoenixking]

With all the bad going on in the world, I am happy to see people still helping to raise money to help your child, I hope everything goes well man!!

[danielschulz]

Here's a hacky way to do it. Your plan to load the RAID drivers on the PC was good. Now find the power pins on the M.2 plug, disconnect them electrically from the PS5, and rewire it to take external voltage from the PSU. Then you can transfer it without the card powering down.

[earthtaurus]

Brett did you create a volume / partition on the Highpoint raid card?
I suppose you can try creating a single volume with exFAT as Fat32 and exFAT are supported for external drives on the PS5.

[MrStanley]

I would expect to have the GPU listed under system not storage - as you've said its a protocol - not specific to storage - maybe you should do a comparison benchmark with and without the card - does it spin while gaming? ... nice video!

[shanebeasley]

Plug the hardware raid card into the software raid card to keep it powered during the swap over

[monchiabbad]

You should have started the PS5 with a display attached to the GPU.

[NiddNetworks]

If that's a proper RAID card, you'll need to initialise it first - using a PC. The config for the card will be stored either in non volatile RAM or on the drives themselves. I work with RAID every day of the week. Put it in the PC, set your uefi bios to show legacy cards, and there will be a keyboard shortcut to enter the card config. B from there, create Volume using all the 4 ssds.

Once you've done all that, saved it all etc, connect back to the ps5. Because only THEN will that pci-e card "look" like a "drive" to what it's plugged into.

Of course, because of the RAID BIOS on the card, the ps5 might still ignore it.

And like others say, m.2 and PciE the same, do it could just be a pciE switch, passing all the Ssds to the inboard controllers, leaving you no further forward either.

Try make it work in a pc like it's meant to FIRST though, otherwise how can you know it's the ps5 at fault!

[lorenzofiaschi]

They likely use a proprietary uid assignment protocol, together with a proprietary filesystem, much like an 🍎pad. If that's true, then the gpu would be recognized as a drive (consequently the memory controller would activate and dump a bunch of memory addresses, waiting for another component to implement the uid assignment and read the addresses).

[sdam]

Congratulations on the fund raiser. Kicking myself because I’m unable to donate due to my current financial situation but knowing you managed to hit such a good amount makes me feel you won’t really miss the £10-£20 I would of liked to give if I was able to.

Keep up the great work ur doing buddy with content and all the other projects you have in progress.

[whitebeartigtig]

with the GPU, you could have probably booted it with the display plugged into it. although I doubt it would have worked anyways.

[TOTALpopedom]

Also: as for the idea of hardware raid - you'd need a controller that can present itself as though it were one big NVMe drive. I'm not sure if such a thing exists commercially...
*Edit to correct erroneous autotext

[WhiteTortoisMedia]

your going to have to jail break your ps5 to install linux. That is going to flash your ps5 to the new operating system or IOS so save or copy your old flash so you can bring it back.

[Stefan_Smith]

This video had the potential for greatness, the title was simply to part 1, but I had no idea what I clicked on, maybe it was the thumbnail?

[engineeringworkshop]

Since it is "hardware" based raid...the jumper settings choosing the raid "configuration" will need to be pre-set. prior to boot (raid-5 suggestion). As I was watching i noticed that the m.2 cards were risen off of the raid card. You must make sure all m.2 cards are of the same type as well as all attachments are PCIe 4.0 compliant; have no volume on them (unpartitioned) and install all 4 of those drives with the screws on them which flattens them closer to the raid card for a "solid" connection. BTW it should work. I have a ps4 pro with 8tb (2tb x4 drives) configured in raid-5 off of the internal sata using a sata to e-sata cable plugged into a 4 bay raid external powered box with perfect results now for 2yrs. Cheers...

[irdmoose]

Sony can be as unhappy with this video as they want, it doesn't change the fact that you have the right to do with YOUR PS5 whatever you choose. With their garbage suit against Dbrand, I'm never going to buy one anyway. With that said, Sony and Xbox probably use proprietary formats. I would try using a linux-based disk cloning tool like DD to rip an image of a single SSD and populate the array with that image. That might also work on the Xbox... FOR SCIENCE!

[cracklingice]

I have a feeling that the raid card may not be working because the PS5 isn't loading the option ROM at POST.