PS3 HD upgrade

No1Jew · Post by **No1Jew** » December 13th, 2008, 11:37

Loes all

Has anyone tried upgrading a PS3 HD. I only have the 40GB and want to stick in a 500GB one so I can have all my music to hand in the Living room. And also I'm getting a few more games for Xmas so the 40GB just wont be big enough.

If anyone has, can you tell me if what this site says is correct and that it works 100%
http://www.gamersreports.com/article/43/

Many thanks

Post by **HereComesPete** » December 13th, 2008, 15:11

Seems easy enough. Sony made it easy to upgrade.

Your link 404's for me. Once again ff proves useful with showing the intended link at the bottom left. I can't see you getting anything useful from an rpm upgrade, more heat than speed really, that caviar blue thing you've linkied seems like it would work fine. Do you really need all that space in your ps3 though? 40 GB is too small, but surely 500 GB is too big!

Scan sometimes cost more than other places, and their delivery service/rma's are shit. Have you looked at a few other sites to compare prices?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 13th, 2008, 15:20

What pete said, you'll pay a fair premium for a 7200rpm hdd, which probably won't make a noticeable difference, that and the extra heat and power requirements of a faster drive strike me as an unwise choice.

and scan are bollocks.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » December 13th, 2008, 15:26

From what I remember seeing on various blogs, replacing the drive is a fairly simple procedure. There should be plenty of other tutorials around for you to collect information from.
However, You might lose all your data- saves, themes, DLC etc. See if you can find a way to backup your content.
http://vgstrategies.about.com/od/ps3che ... rade_2.htm

No1Jew · Post by **No1Jew** » December 13th, 2008, 18:18

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:What pete said, you'll pay a fair premium for a 7200rpm hdd

I never intended toget a 7200rpm HD. 5400rpm is PS3 standard as is the one I tried to link - http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/500GB-We ... Cache-2-ms

Also as Berk will agree, you can never have too much HD space !!

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 13th, 2008, 18:42

No1Jew wrote:I never intended toget a 7200rpm HD.

Also as Berk will agree, you can never have too much HD space !!

meh, I'm tired and misreading stuff.

I'm not sure about storage, I think you always have enough, and not enough.

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » December 16th, 2008, 2:47

http://faq.en.playstation.com/cgi-bin/scee_gb.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp...
Mod: Board won't take the link;TinyURL'd.