PS3 Hard Drive
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Western Digital Scorpio Blue 750GB should work great
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-351-WD
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-351-WD
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That's the drive I have in my PS3 slim it works a treat.
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it has to be a 9.5mm version and not a 12mm version.
the 2.5 inch standard is supposed to be 9.5mm but some companies produced 12mm verions to cater for bigger disk size.
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I'm using a toshiba 320GB 7200rpm and it's been fine and thats in a old fat 80GB
What is the debat on 5400rpm V 7200rpm? Compatability, noise?
I ask as I need to upgrade the hard drive in my PS3 and I was thinking of going for a 7200
It was heat/noise a while ago but I think that issue has passed with the last few gen of 7200rpm 2.5" HDDs being very comparable to their 5400rpm equivalents.
I still think the PS3s file system doesnt seem to perform much better using the quicker drives, so its still the general consensus that 5400rpm is more than perfectly fine - especially considering the slow access of the BD drive being probably the more overriding delay anyway...
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It was heat/noise a while ago but I think that issue has passed with the last few gen of 7200rpm 2.5" HDDs being very comparable to their 5400rpm equivalents.
I still think the PS3s file system doesnt seem to perform much better using the quicker drives, so its still the general consensus that 5400rpm is more than perfectly fine - especially considering the slow access of the BD drive being probably the more overriding delay anyway...
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Many thanks for that!
Think I will stick with a 5400rpm drive then
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I think I will do this too. I have the original 20GB PS3 lol, and space really is errr running out. I don't use it that much though, purely because of the space issue, so getting a larger hdd would mean it getting more use, especially for movies/media.
Unless you get progs off the net (or maybe you could just use windows) and connect your ps3 HDD to a pc to copy over the contents and then onto the new one. Or, you will need an external HDD to backup your ps3 using the ps3 system itself, it has a backup feature. Then put in your new hdd and restore the backup from the external hdd. Only catch is, the ps3 uses the FAT32 file system not NTFS.
Either route you take I think the new HDD or external HDD have to be FAT32 formatted first, search on google for a proper fat32 formatter prog as I dont think windows can format large capacities in FAT32. You can format over USB with the external or have to connect internally for the SATA drive. Any HDD of 250gig or larger will take a good few hours to fully format in FAT32.
I used an external HDD to do a full back-up, then restored that back over once my new HDD was installed. Worked fine.
One thing I would recommend doing is deleting as much as you can that isn't vital before doing the back-up, because it takes absolutely ages both to back-up and restore it afterwards otherwise.
I recently upgraded to one of these. I found it on offer on a competitor's site.
The speed increase was nice, as well as having the extra space over my old 80gb hard drive from my PS3 fat!
As TheVoice said, make sure you delete as much as possible, as the backup and restore can take an absolute age.
As far as I know, you can use EASEUS Partition Master to format the external drive of your choice.
The speed increase was nice, as well as having the extra space over my old 80gb hard drive from my PS3 fat!
As TheVoice said, make sure you delete as much as possible, as the backup and restore can take an absolute age.
As far as I know, you can use EASEUS Partition Master to format the external drive of your choice.
i am just looking for a cheap hard drive to upgrade my 60gb ps3
and am thinking about going for
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-089-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=896
and am thinking about going for
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-089-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=896
No acronis won't work because windows wont recognise the PS3 file system.
If upgrading I would put in a 7200rpm drive in for that little bit of a speed boost.
Have a 500gb Scorpio Black in mine and I did notice loading times slighty quicker (helped a lot in GT5's slow loading time before). Compared with the 5400rpm western Digital Blues they produce very similar heat and noise.
If upgrading I would put in a 7200rpm drive in for that little bit of a speed boost.
Have a 500gb Scorpio Black in mine and I did notice loading times slighty quicker (helped a lot in GT5's slow loading time before). Compared with the 5400rpm western Digital Blues they produce very similar heat and noise.