PS3 Hard drive, Max size? Particular brand?

andymac

andymac

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I have a 40GB PS3, and it is full!

I have game downloads, photos, and music on it. It shows a grand total of 1GB remaining!

Time to pull the drive, and put a bigger one in.

However, all guides I have found state that

MOST 2.5" SATA drives will fit a PS3.

Is there a particular brand that will/won't fit?

And is there a final definitive verdict on the 7200 5400 rpm debate, as in MUST I have a 5400 or will a 7200 work without cooking?

Many Thanks
 
Look in the PS3 Faq's, the one i used (160Gb 2.5" 5400 sata 2) is linked as its available at OCUK. Seen people with 250Gbs disks in there PS3 as they are still reasonable priced compared to bigger ones, with the 5400/7200 keep with 5400 TBH its probably going to cause you a lot less trouble.
 
There's supposed to be very little difference in performance between the 5400 & 7200 rpm drives (if any really) so probably better stick with 5400, minimum 8mb cache :) On a side note, I'm curious to see what the performance will be like when solid state drives have matured a lot more though ... :)
 
Scorpio 250GB S150 5400RPM 8MB

Thats what I have and I know a few others on here have the same model as well.
Works perfectly.
 
andymac said:
I have a 40GB PS3, and it is full!

I have game downloads, photos, and music on it. It shows a grand total of 1GB remaining!

Time to pull the drive, and put a bigger one in.

However, all guides I have found state that

MOST 2.5" SATA drives will fit a PS3.

Is there a particular brand that will/won't fit?

And is there a final definitive verdict on the 7200 5400 rpm debate, as in MUST I have a 5400 or will a 7200 work without cooking?

Many Thanks
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http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3media&thread.id=32840

Scroll further down the page & it list all the drives.:)
 
nokkonwud said:
Jeez, what do you have on it? Delete some demo's or something :P.
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Well considering you can store all your music and photos on it, play DiVX & XViD, download Film and Game trailers and not to mention playable demo's - it's quite easy to see how 40Gig could very quickly be used up.
 
Baxtor said:
Scorpio 250GB S150 5400RPM 8MB

Thats what I have and I know a few others on here have the same model as well.
Works perfectly.
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How much is this? I am thinking of upgrading myself soon, Even though my 60gb is only about 3/5th full atm.


rp2000
 
I use my PS3 as a backup store for all my digital photos from my PC which take up about 13GB of Data (3 DVDs full) all my music in MP3 which is about 7 GB. I also have a backup files store from my PC containing documents etc. as an additional backup away from my PC just in case. Then I have a dozen or so demos. I also think that the PS store will start to sell full games more competitively soon, and films if they had any sense!


On the point of size, I'm looking at the Western Digital Scorpios in either 160GB or 250GB size. The difference in price is only £20 for an extra 90GB of storage!

Is there any performance difference between the two sizes? As in, would the larger capacity drive result in slower loading or any other anomalous results in use?

Thanks.

Andy
 
I don't think there would be any difference in performance between the two andy.
If there was any I doubt if it would be noticable.
 
Lovely, will be seriously looking at the 250Gb jobbie towards the end of the month then!

PS If anyone at OCUK shop is watching, I'd really appreciate a week special on the 250GB 2.5" HDD towards the end of Jan!

Heres hoping!
 
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