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Which 2.5 HDD recommended for a fat PS3 ?
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muzz1313
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30. November 2009 @ 07:06 |
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hello gang
just a quick question about replacing the harddrive in my fat 40gb ps3
ive looked over the forums and couldnt find anything that says "this is the best type of HD " or " you cant use anything over x gb in your ps3"
i guess you could say i jumped the gun and bought my ps3 waaaay too early and now suffering from HD envy
lol a guy i work with just bought his last week for the same price i bought mine and now he has almost 4 times the storage space than i do
not a big thing and i understand its the nature of the technological beasts ..
and really it wasnt too big of a problem till i bought AC2 and had to delete a lot of things off my HD to get the game to even play
( amazing game by the way )
any how any help or suggestions on what type of laptop harddrive to get ?
how difficult is it to replace ?
what should i expect ?
many thanks in advance
Muzz1313
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sky920
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30. November 2009 @ 08:20 |
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KajNrig
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30. November 2009 @ 13:44 |
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Actually, the drive doesn't have to be a 5400 RPM drive, nor is there a max of 500GB.
Any 2.5" SATA hard drive will work - 5400 RPM, 7200 RPM, 120GB, 640GB (which is the max that Newegg is showing).
I think the "500GB limit" thing is there because of the actual hard drive limitations, not how much the PS3 can actually use. Some people have connected 3.5" 1.5TB hard drives to their PS3s before.
As far as the disk speed goes, I've read various things on whether 7200RPM drives are faster or not, but the general consensus seems to be that the increased disk speed doesn't actually decrease load times much at all.
But yeah, you can get any size hard drive - I'd suggest a Western Digital one, as I trust those the most - and the swap process is fairly simple as well.
And to answer your last question, you should expect to get an USB external hard drive of 40GB or more in order to back up the data from your old hard drive, which can then be dumped into your new hard drive.
Hope that helps.
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sky920
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30. November 2009 @ 17:00 |
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hes askign fo rbest i would think having a 7200 rpm drive would get realy hot,there is enough heat coming from the cpu, i dont think it needs more heat. but i also think out of convienience a 3.5" drive with a cable coming out of the ps3.
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KajNrig
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30. November 2009 @ 19:41 |
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Originally posted by sky920:
hes askign fo rbest i would think having a 7200 rpm drive would get realy hot,there is enough heat coming from the cpu, i dont think it needs more heat. but i also think out of convienience a 3.5" drive with a cable coming out of the ps3.
True, but "best" is a subjective word, don't you think?
(As far as heat goes, I live in subzero climate, so to me, the CPU only ever gets lukewarm.)
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1. December 2009 @ 04:40 |
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A 5400RPM works just fine. I am very happy with my Hitachi 500GB 5400RPM, and I know there are a lot of others who are also happy with them. You can go bigger than 500GB (any 2.5" SATA drive should work), and you can even go with a SSD if that appeals to you.
There is a kit for converting the drivebay into a ESATA socket for use with external drives. This allows for faster, larger drives, but it does sacrifice portability. I know you can use a 2TB drive with one of these, and I believe that a hardware port multiplier with 5 2TB drives should also work; though I have not confirmed this yet. The ESATA port also opens the option of using a 10,000RPM drive; maybe even a 15,000RPM drive.
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KajNrig
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1. December 2009 @ 13:52 |
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Would that really decrease load times, though? I know the 7200RPM ones don't, but maybe that's because they're not going 2x, 3x faster than the regulars.
And 10 TB of storage... sheesh. I don't know how you would even fill a QUARTER of that.
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emugamer
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2. December 2009 @ 12:20 |
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I threw in a 5400 rpm, based on
1)lower price and
2)probably less heat
#2 was more important for me and my Phat PS3. #1 was just a bonus. I've also read numerous places that there is pretty much no difference in load times between 7200 and 5400rpm.
Don't go crazy on size. Unless you're going to store all of your media on there and you have a lot, even a 320GB is a lot of space that would probably for the most part be unused. I replaced my 40GB drive with a 320GB over a year ago, and still have 180GB free. And that's with the 40 PSN titles and demos I've accumulated, game content, and over 20GB of music and a bunch of 720p game trailers. But that's just my example. You know what you need.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 2. December 2009 @ 12:21
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3. December 2009 @ 04:21 |
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Originally posted by KajNrig:
Would that really decrease load times, though? I know the 7200RPM ones don't, but maybe that's because they're not going 2x, 3x faster than the regulars.
And 10 TB of storage... sheesh. I don't know how you would even fill a QUARTER of that.
I doubt even the fastest SSD would improve load times by a noticable amount...a 7200RPM certainly isn't going to be a big improvement.
Once you get the space, you quickly find use for it. I have over 4TB of videos on my system right now...and that does not include music, HD videos, or recorded TV. 10TB would not be much use to an average gamer (average gamer uses less than 80GB), but it could be very tempting to someone trying to build a "mac-daddy" media center.
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