PS3 HardDrive Swap

Firstly, you need an external drive, be it USB stick or HDD, either must be formatted to Fat32!
Secondly, the drive must be big enough for ALL the data on your current PS3 drive.

The backup utility will backup Everything, I have movies and mp3's etc on my PS3, when I bought a new HDD, i made a backup onto a USB stick, then swapped out the drive for the new one and ran restore and ALL my files were there inc game saves :)

Note: it can take a while depending on how mauch data is on the current drive... mine took about an hour to restore....
 
there is a table (easily googled) of hard drives compatible, they are all going to be sata II so your not really going t get a peformance boost from a hard drive swap

sorry bud
 
robgmun said:
i always wanted to know which is the best drive to give my phat PS3 a perforamce boost?
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No difference at all.

one group put an SSD drive in to test and it just runs at exactly the same speed :p

Seems like something in the ps3 firmware/hardware is just designed for 5400rpm drives.
 
Tefal said:
No difference at all.

one group put an SSD drive in to test and it just runs at exactly the same speed :p

Seems like something in the ps3 firmware/hardware is just designed for 5400rpm drives.
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Not quite true; faster drives and HDDs will improve performance for games stored on the drive, but because the real bottleneck is the optical drive load times for disc-based games won't see much change.
 
I should reword for wise crackers, other then the spin speed of the drive there is nothing to go faster

And cant say it would be cost effect or Possible? to get a 10k rpm 2.5" drive
 
TheVoice said:
Not quite true; faster drives and HDDs will improve performance for games stored on the drive, but because the real bottleneck is the optical drive load times for disc-based games won't see much change.
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No it really makes no difference what so ever.

http://uk.gamespot.com/features/6192258/index.html


doh thats install times start up times do decrese but only by a small amount

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2332522,00.asp


That's with an ssd so really worth the huge cost for a few seconds on start up?
 
aren't the higher speed drives hotter to run?

I thought they ran hotter therefore best not to have them in your PS3.
 
in theory yes but i dont think the difference between 54k and 72k rpm would make a noticeable difference in terms of peformance, just not enough heat build up. plus newer drives spin at 5200 and get the same peformance as older drives
 
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