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Replacing ps3 hardrive? - May-7th-2008 22:48:45

Mystery_Person

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will a Western Digital - 160GB Internal Hard Drive Serial ATA that transfers up to 1.5Gbps and has a 8mb cache buffer, 12 ms average seek time, 5400 rpm, or go with the 7200 rpm does it make a diff?

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RE: Replacing ps3 hardrive? - May-8th-2008 0:14:25

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Go with the 5400 one, 7200 is a little bit to high for PS3.
I even heard people saying that there PS3 getted overheated and didn't get back on by using a harddrive that taked to much power of the PS3.

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RE: Replacing ps3 hardrive? - May-8th-2008 6:55:42

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There's not really a need to get the 5400 rpm drives for the PS3. Like stated before, they're hot and don't do much for anything (you get like a 5-10% performance boost which is nothing because things are typically fast as is).

And you can get bigger capacity drives. They're up to 320 GB now.

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RE: Replacing ps3 hardrive? - May-8th-2008 8:07:36

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go with a 5400rpm. like stated, you won't get much more performance with a 7200. the price difference doesn't justify the tiny bump of performance.

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RE: Replacing ps3 hardrive? - May-8th-2008 13:12:02

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get o ebay and go all out with a 320 gigger it would be well worth it in the end. Oh yeah only buy seagate.

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RE: Replacing ps3 hardrive? - May-8th-2008 14:39:05

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How about the new Verbatim Half Terabyte 2.5" hard drive.....neat!!!

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RE: Replacing ps3 hardrive? - May-9th-2008 12:57:01

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I actually have a question that is related to this. I just got a ps3 so don't know too much about adding harddrives to the ps3. Can I add an external to the usb and use it the same way that the internal drive is used? or is that pretty much only good for media and stuff like that?

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RE: Replacing ps3 hardrive? - May-9th-2008 13:10:25

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Archon129

I actually have a question that is related to this. I just got a ps3 so don't know too much about adding harddrives to the ps3. Can I add an external to the usb and use it the same way that the internal drive is used? or is that pretty much only good for media and stuff like that?

Nope. The external can only handle files like Gamesaves, movies, pictures, music and back-ups. Nothing game play related can be moved on to it.

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