Best HDD for PS3?

DELETED_63174 · 12 Feb 2009 at 15:50

*Sorry if this is the wrong section, i put this in the HDD section but thought it could be here too*

Hey everyone I'm looking to upgrade my PS3 HDD but I'm unsure on what to get.

I want to stick with a 5400rpm drive and stay away from WD as the head parking "click" drives me nuts.

I'm looking at this but unsure as the seek time is 0.14 instead of 0.12 like on most. Also i have heard some horror storys about Seagates lately, does anyone know if any problems have plagued these drives specifically?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-200-SE&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=896

Joebob · 12 Feb 2009 at 15:55

Fairly sure all new PS3's come with seagates as standard. I have replaced both my PS3's with seagates and they have worked fine so far.

orderoftheflame · 12 Feb 2009 at 15:57

My 40GB was a Seagate.

Just get the biggest cheapest 5400RPM drive you can, I got a 320GB Fujitsu for a bargain price last easter and it's been perfect since then.

dalin80 · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:15

if you can find a good 16mb cache drive then all the better, nott much point on a faster drive but the cache is well known to help as many ps3 titles (that arent shoddy multiplatform ports) use a lot of streaming.

ps3ud0 · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:20

Are there any 5400rpms drives that have 16Mb cache though?

ps3ud0 :cool:

JaFFa · 12 Feb 2009 at 20:14

can you not use 7200rpm drives then ?

msmalls74 · 12 Feb 2009 at 20:16

JaFFa said:
can you not use 7200rpm drives then ?

You can but it seems the speed increase isnt noticable and the extra heat may be a slight issue TBH not worth any extra cash to get a 7200rpm drive.

DELETED_63174 · 12 Feb 2009 at 22:17

Yeah i want to stay with a 5400rpm drive.

So that Seagate 5400.6 500GB, seem fine to put in?

DELETED_63174 · 13 Feb 2009 at 20:16

Sorry to bump this thread again, just wanted to say for the people who have put a new HDD in there PS3 did they do a quick format or a full one?

orderoftheflame · 13 Feb 2009 at 20:19

caris_2007 said:
Sorry to bump this thread again, just wanted to say for the people who have put a new HDD in there PS3 did they do a quick format or a full one?

I don't remember getting an option for quick format when I stuck in the PS3?

Joebob · 13 Feb 2009 at 20:25

You don't get the option of anything other than a format, no quick or full. Older model PS3's will do a format and everything will be hunky dorey but newer models require you to have firmware to hand on a USB flash drive.

Faffer · 16 Feb 2009 at 11:05

It doesw a quick format by default, but I did a full format on mine anyway. It took about 20.5 hours for my 320GB drive.

mcwildcard · 16 Feb 2009 at 11:15

Faffer said:
It took about 20.5 hours for my 320GB drive.

orderoftheflame · 16 Feb 2009 at 11:17

Faffer said:
It doesw a quick format by default, but I did a full format on mine anyway. It took about 20.5 hours for my 320GB drive.

Took me less than an hour to do my 320GB.

Senture · 16 Feb 2009 at 13:09

msmalls74 said:
the extra heat may be a slight issue

I can't picture this being any different on a PS3, but when I changed the hard drive in my M1710 before it was stolen, I swaped it from a 5400.2 160GB to a 7K200 200GB and there was a whole 1 degree in temps and half the booting time. My 7200.2 200GB loads every PSN game much quicker than everyone else.

[timko] · 16 Feb 2009 at 13:22

On the official forums, one user did some reasonable in depth tests between a 5400 and a 7200 rpm drive. The difference was barely noticeable and not worth the extra money.

I'm surprised no one, or at least not that I've read/seen, tried a Velociraptor in there. The difference in speed will be slightly higher but then it would be complete waste being stuck in a PS3, not to mention the lower £/Gb ratio