I had a hard drive failure in my original PS3 so had to reinstall from scratch. Only keep the PS3 for GT6 so that's all that is being installed. Been trying for 4 weeks and wasn't able to get past update 1.10. I was using the recommended technique to only perform one update at a time, but when it came time to install 1.10, the system would hang. It would take two or three days of download/installs just to get to the 1.10 failure point. I then let the 1.10 download/install run for nearly two days (since the others took a long time) but it would never complete. This is using a wired LAN, although I had originally used wireless. Reason I took 4 weeks is I had tried twice with two new 320gb hard drives in case one was bad, but got the same results. Yesterday I bit the bullet and purchased an SSD to try. I used a Samsung 850EVO 500gb SSD. The results are below, but to summarize, I was able to download and install ALL the updates last night in an elapsed time of 235 minutes. That was using the one update at a time method so included the time needed to go back and disable the Ethernet, run the install, enable the Ethernet, download and install, and do it all over again. The table below shows my experience, I hope it formats correctly. Read it as follows: left column is the update number, I'm guessing the 1.01 is actually the base code on my CD as that didn't download, my downloads started with 1.02 and went thru 1.22. The second column is the size of the update I got from an online document, some of my downloads were slightly different by a few MB. The third column is the time, in minutes, for the download/install, then game install step to be completed for that update, using a wireless connection. The 4th column is the same, but using the wired connection, it was a little faster. The last column shows the times using a wired connection and my new SSD. So looking at update 1.02, the size was appx 1205mb, the download/install of that update took 310 minutes. The wired connection was a little faster at 290 minutes. However, the wired/SSD operation took 18 minutes. At first I thought it failed because it was so quick, but when I tried the next update, it went thru fine. Update 1.03, 99mb, took 48, 41, and 4 minutes respectively. Outstanding improvement in update installation time. I can't promise your updates will be as spectacular but it could be well worth your time and money to upgrade to the SSD. If I was a gluten for punishment I might try just doing all the download/installation process in one lump rather than individually.
It was late last night so I didn't actually play GT6, but I did start it up to see what would happen. The initial screen popped up and cleared in about 2 seconds, took me to the initial video of the track intro, I hit O to cancel that and a few seconds later was at the main game screen. This used to take me 6 or 7 minutes to get thru everything but now it was probably less than 6 or 7 seconds to be ready to play. Tonight I'll download my game saves and see what improvement there may be in the game itself due to the SSD. Even if there is no improvement in game play, the ability to get these %^*#@ updates installed was worth the cost.
----------------Size----Wireless----Wired----Wired/SSD
1.01----------1200-----BASE
1.02----------1205-------310-------290----------18
1.03-------------99---------48--------41-----------4
1.04-----------214---------78--------72----------10
1.05-----------100---------38--------35------------4
1.06-----------295--------122-------118----------12
1.07-----------961--------302-------289----------17
1.08---------1400--------425-------410----------21
1.09-----------598--------256--------245---------12
1.10---------2100------Failed------Failed---------25
1.11------------30------------------------------------1
1.12-----------484----------------------------------16
1.13------------10------------------------------------1
1.14----------548-----------------------------------11
1.15---------1100----------------------------------18
1.16-----------536----------------------------------14
1.17-----------327----------------------------------12
1.18-----------200-----------------------------------8
1.19-----------270----------------------------------10
1.20-----------311----------------------------------12
1.21-----------180------------------------------------8
1.22-------------35----------------------------------- 1
It was late last night so I didn't actually play GT6, but I did start it up to see what would happen. The initial screen popped up and cleared in about 2 seconds, took me to the initial video of the track intro, I hit O to cancel that and a few seconds later was at the main game screen. This used to take me 6 or 7 minutes to get thru everything but now it was probably less than 6 or 7 seconds to be ready to play. Tonight I'll download my game saves and see what improvement there may be in the game itself due to the SSD. Even if there is no improvement in game play, the ability to get these %^*#@ updates installed was worth the cost.
----------------Size----Wireless----Wired----Wired/SSD
1.01----------1200-----BASE
1.02----------1205-------310-------290----------18
1.03-------------99---------48--------41-----------4
1.04-----------214---------78--------72----------10
1.05-----------100---------38--------35------------4
1.06-----------295--------122-------118----------12
1.07-----------961--------302-------289----------17
1.08---------1400--------425-------410----------21
1.09-----------598--------256--------245---------12
1.10---------2100------Failed------Failed---------25
1.11------------30------------------------------------1
1.12-----------484----------------------------------16
1.13------------10------------------------------------1
1.14----------548-----------------------------------11
1.15---------1100----------------------------------18
1.16-----------536----------------------------------14
1.17-----------327----------------------------------12
1.18-----------200-----------------------------------8
1.19-----------270----------------------------------10
1.20-----------311----------------------------------12
1.21-----------180------------------------------------8
1.22-------------35----------------------------------- 1
And I now have both with those special abilities 🤬 to do and play things my way.
