Just a suggestion about cIOS'es and HDD's.

If you're going to use a USB Loader to load your backup copies (nobody likes to get up to swap discs ALL THE TIME, so it's worth it.), there are 3 ways to do it. You can use a:

1. WBFS Partition on your hard drive, for which I recommend Hermes v.4 joint 38+37 cIOS on slot 223 plus cIOSX rev 14-16 on slot 249 for some incompatible games. While this is by far the most compatible solution, it is also prone to data corruption, since WBFS partitions are un-scandiskabble.

2. FAT32 partition. Some say it's the "best method", but it limits your .wbfs files to a certain size (4 gigs), so not all games will be accessible for you. On the other hand, you can use scan disk if your files get corrupt. For this setup I recommend: latest Hermes cIOS, base IOS 38 on slot 222, base IOS 37 on slot 223, plus latest cIOSX standard base (56 i think...) on slot 249 and base 57 or 37 on slot 250.

3. NTFS partition. I personally think it's the "way to go". You're not limited by file size, you can scan the partition... but sometimes it's "quirky" since the loaders only recently became compatible with it. I recommend the same cIOS setup as for the FAT32 setup.

Why the difference in cIOS'es between WBFS and FAT32/NTFS? Simple. v.4 and rev. 14-16 are much more "compatible" with games, but they simply don't support these file systems. v.5.1 and rev.21 are less compatible for some "unknown reason" (at least from what I noticed), but they generally work "faster" and have NTFS/FAT32 support.

Happy Trails!

This post has been edited by Foxi4, Wed, February 2nd, 2011 at 15:20