because it's hardware you can own and do things with

I haven't even been modding mine that hard — the silver memory card from my previous post has had FMBC on it for like a decade, but I've barely used it at all. Last year was an exception because for some reason I decided I want to play Metroid Fusion on PS2. I've been thinking of getting an SSD to load games from for years, but never got around to do it.