However, by the late 2000s and early 2010s, the "Jailbreak" scene erupted. Suddenly, the console’s internal hard drive was accessible. But a problem emerged: storage capacity. The PS3’s internal hard drives were proprietary and difficult to upgrade at the time, while external USB drives were becoming cheap and capacious. The PS3, however, was natively hostile to playing games directly from external drives. It required games to be on the internal HDD.
Key features that made it essential:
: Select your ISO as the "Source" and the root of your USB drive as the "Destination". Usbutil Ps3