Swapping PS3 Hard drive ?

When I did my HDD upgrade all that time ago lol, i backed up my save games just to be on the safe side, to be honest it takes about a few minutes to do. Its funny I've been looking at getting a 500GB drive for my PS3, i can get it for about £120, its going to be useful for when the Movie/Music store comes and for play TV. I dont think my 160GB is going to be enough now
 
msmalls74 said:
When I did my HDD upgrade all that time ago lol, i backed up my save games just to be on the safe side, to be honest it takes about a few minutes to do. Its funny I've been looking at getting a 500GB drive for my PS3, i can get it for about £120, its going to be useful for when the Movie/Music store comes and for play TV. I dont think my 160GB is going to be enough now
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From personal experience with HTPC's and Media Centre's, you're looking at a bare minumum of 500GB for recording television and movies.

Obviously depending on what kind of quality PlayTV would record at and the size of the files it creates. I'm using the highest quality on my HTPC and you're looking at about 1.2GB per hour of video recorded.
 
What's the deal with 'installs' on the PS3? Does every game install data and what is it for?
 
RobH said:
What's the deal with 'installs' on the PS3? Does every game install data and what is it for?
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Not every game does no, but a fair few of them do.

It'll basically decrease loading times and ensures a quieter experience as the PS3 is constantly having to read data from the BluRay disks.

One of my major annoyances of the PS3 is buying a game that's been out for one or two months, getting it home... installing it (waiting around 10-20 minutes), downloading all the updates for the game (can be around 5-10 minutes) and then installing all the updates (another 3-5 minutes).

Worse case I've had was GT5:P, took me an hour and a half to play it because the update installations keep failing.
 
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I thought I'd just point out that not every 2.5" hard drive fits in the PS3.

The PS3 hard drive is 9.5mm in height and due to the size of the frame a different size drive would be incompatible. Some 2.5" drives are thicker and therefore will not fit. Not many I'll give you that, but it's worth checking before you make your purchase just in case.
 
I use a 7200rpm 32mb drive, initial texture pop in during uncharted was halved* and the chapter installs for MGS4 ended up about 30s shorter.

Possibly a slightly bit faster boot up but its damn fast anyway.


*complete mental guess.

Iam hopefull as more developers use texture streaming and other methods that use the HDD for more then just basic installs the advantage of a better drivers shows more.

One thing iam unsure of and perhaps one of you folks will know is will a faster drive be a benefit to VRAM? insomniac will be using a large chunk of VRAM for textures in resistance 2 (expected to be about 200mb)
 
Well, I've ordered myself a 250GB Seagate ST9250827AS Momentus :) (£45)
And yes, its 9.5mm thick !!

I'll report back on Monday with my results, but to be fair, it looks like even a child could do it in its sleep.
 
Ooh, one thing, be careful removing the screws on the caddy to release the old hdd, they are on very tight and (according to others, mine were fine) seem to strip easily
 
nikebee said:
As said, Gamespot did a review a while back. Results are exactly as you'd expect, installation times when writing to the disk went up but loading times reading from the disk went down.

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

GTA4 and Assassins Creed are about 2 minutes longer to install but DMC4 takes 10 minutes longer.
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love the little fosters game in the advert on the side of that article ;) :p :D
 
I saw a video on Youtube of someone attaching a 3.5" drive but obviously not being able to fit inside and that seemed to work perfectly.
 
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