PlayStation®3 Technical Help

[Whizzer-Hawk]

So I've maxed out my little 120gb slim and still I have more stuff to put on there that I have purchased. Unfortunately I was an idiot and didn't look at my system storage prior to purchasing the many content that I have. With the stuff that's left to install onto my hard drive it would probably put the storage space at about 150gb, nevertheless it would be beneficial to have even more space for future purposes (I'm also a plus member).

At the moment I am currently looking at potential internal hard drive upgrades and I'm aware but uncertain that my slim is packing a Toshiba 2.5 inch 5400rpm SATA 120gb internal hard drive (rarely is it a Hitachi).

I was just wondering on what I should buy for an upgrade? I'm aware that buying a hard drive that goes higher than 5400rpm may break the PS3 as it overheats.

Currently I am looking at the 500gb variants from Toshiba as I don't want to change the brand incase another brand becomes unreliable, also there isn't much of a difference in price between 250gb, 320gb and 500gb so I'm willing to go for the 500. I've had my slim working perfectly for nearly 3 years now.

[fi8767]

You won' really go wrong with any Toshiba,Seagate or Western Digital hard drive for your PS3 Some brands produce faster drives than others but this doesn't really matter when upgrading for this as the console slows them down anyway.

Just make sure its a 2"5 inch SATA running at 5400rpm

[LittleBigDragonz]

MUST make sure the PS3 HDD has these specs ( 7 cm x 10 cm x 9.5 mm ) 

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http://www.dabs.com/products/samsung-640gb-spinpoint-m7-enhanced-sata-300-5400rpm-8mb-2-5---perfect-...  = 640GB for under £55.00

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http://www.dabs.com/products/western-digital-1tb-scorpio-blue-2-5--sata-3gb-s-5400rpm-8mb-9-5mm-7LNZ...  = 1TB for under £80.00

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Now here's my question to people...

Will this ( 750GB MomentusXT Hybrid SATA 6GB/s 32MB ) http://www.dabs.com/products/seagate-750gb-momentusxt-hybrid-sata-6gb-s-32mb-7WFQ.html?refs=41580000...  Be able to fit in the PS3, IF so would it be better than the above HDD's for perfomance? 

[fi8767]

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LittleBigDragonz wrote:
Will this ( 750GB MomentusXT Hybrid SATA 6GB/s 32MB ) http://www.dabs.com/products/seagate-750gb-momentusxt-hybrid-sata-6gb-s-32mb-7WFQ.html?refs=41580000... Be able to fit in the PS3, IF so would it be better than the above HDD's for perfomance?

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 You won't anything that high spec or expensive as performance doesn't really matter in the PS3, it slows the drive down to the speed it works at and so unless you have an SSD there isn't really any performance increase with a better hard drive

[LittleBigDragonz]

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fi8767 wrote:

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LittleBigDragonz wrote:
Will this ( 750GB MomentusXT Hybrid SATA 6GB/s 32MB ) http://www.dabs.com/products/seagate-750gb-momentusxt-hybrid-sata-6gb-s-32mb-7WFQ.html?refs=41580000... Be able to fit in the PS3, IF so would it be better than the above HDD's for perfomance?

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 You won't anything that high spec or expensive as performance doesn't really matter in the PS3, it slows the drive down to the speed it works at and so unless you have an SSD there isn't really any performance increase with a better hard drive

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I have had better performance from just swapping the stock HDD to a larger shops bought one?

[fi8767]

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LittleBigDragonz wrote:

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fi8767 wrote:

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LittleBigDragonz wrote:
Will this ( 750GB MomentusXT Hybrid SATA 6GB/s 32MB ) http://www.dabs.com/products/seagate-750gb-momentusxt-hybrid-sata-6gb-s-32mb-7WFQ.html?refs=41580000... Be able to fit in the PS3, IF so would it be better than the above HDD's for perfomance?

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 You won't anything that high spec or expensive as performance doesn't really matter in the PS3, it slows the drive down to the speed it works at and so unless you have an SSD there isn't really any performance increase with a better hard drive

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I have had better performance from just swapping the stock HDD to a larger shops bought one?

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Speed-wise? There have been tests run with different HDD's on some IT websites that showed there was no notable speed increase with a better HDD in the PS3.

[LittleBigDragonz]

Well i can tell you there is a difference. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-ps3-hard-drive-upgrade-guide

Notice on page two the " MomentusXT Hybrid " GT5? So some games there is a difference,

[Whizzer-Hawk]

I have been hearing very bad things about Seagate, at the same time I don't know if they are genuine. That's why I'm probably going to go for a Toshiba.

I know that with games such as GT5 and Skyrim (mostly other large games) there has been a small increase with speed in terms of drives, but if you ask me it isn't really worth the money.

Might as well be inquisitive with the PS4 in 2 years time.

[fi8767]

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LittleBigDragonz wrote:

Well i can tell you there is a difference. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-ps3-hard-drive-upgrade-guide

Notice on page two the " MomentusXT Hybrid " GT5? So some games there is a difference,

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GT5 is the only game with notable decrease.. If you wish to spent £100 to shave a few seconds of your install's then go ahead, I was only giving you the advice that you wanted Don't really se why you asked if you were so clued up in the first place!

[LittleBigDragonz]

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fi8767 wrote:

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LittleBigDragonz wrote:

Well i can tell you there is a difference. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-ps3-hard-drive-upgrade-guide

Notice on page two the " MomentusXT Hybrid " GT5? So some games there is a difference,

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GT5 is the only game with notable decrease.. If you wish to spent £100 to shave a few seconds of your install's then go ahead, I was only giving you the advice that you wanted Don't really se why you asked if you were so clued up in the first place!

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I asked a simple question... And needed ( a real answer ) maybe from someone that had one fitted as an example, it has nothing to do with knowing about other HDD's for PS3 lol

MUST make sure the PS3 HDD has these specs ( 7 cm x 10 cm x 9.5 mm ) 

.

http://www.dabs.com/products/samsung-640gb-spinpoint-m7-enhanced-sata-300-5400rpm-8mb-2-5---perfect-...  = 640GB for under £55.00

.

http://www.dabs.com/products/western-digital-1tb-scorpio-blue-2-5--sata-3gb-s-5400rpm-8mb-9-5mm-7LNZ...  = 1TB for under £80.00

.

Now here's my question to people...

Will this ( 750GB MomentusXT Hybrid SATA 6GB/s 32MB ) http://www.dabs.com/products/seagate-750gb-momentusxt-hybrid-sata-6gb-s-32mb-7WFQ.html?refs=41580000...  Be able to fit in the PS3, IF so would it be better than the above HDD's for performance?