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Help choosing HARD DRIVE

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hi, I'd like to know if the speed of a 2.5" hard drive
at 5400 or 7200 rpm has an effect on ps3 game loading times...
(internal or external)
and which brand would you recommend?
thanks
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Re: Help choosing HARD DRIVE

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internally there will surely be some effect but not externally because usb limits it. So for internal you can invest in 7200rpm but externally 5200rpm is enough (avoid 4200rpm if they still exist ^^). As for the brand well I don't know if there are incompatibilities with certain brands but I'd tend to say WD powaaaaa :P
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Re: Help choosing HARD DRIVE

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darkscad wrote:hi, I'd like to know if the speed of a 2.5" hard drive
at 5400 or 7200 rpm has an effect on the loading times of ps3 games...
(internal or external)
and which brand do you recommend?
thanks
The only effect is an increase in heat inside the console.
Externally, it doesn't matter ;)
For the brand I recommend a Western Digital, it works just as well on wii as on PS3 :D
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Re: Help choosing HARD DRIVE

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not quite right about the heat though it all depends on the model/brand. On the 360 too the compatible models are WD but there there's another reason which is that the original hdds are WD;
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Re: Help choosing HARD DRIVE

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my original drive (ps3) is a seagate barracuda I swapped it for a 120 go (old 40 go) hitachi brand at 5400 rpm and it's perfect (internally) otherwise externally I have a WD my passport 500 go. (wii + ps3)
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Re: Help choosing HARD DRIVE

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Thanks for your answers.
:bravo:

I'm going to get a 500go external hard drive (specially for backups).
:mrgreen:
however I didn't think that USB 2.0 limited the file transfer (data) to the ps3...
that's not nice $ony... :o
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Re: Help choosing HARD DRIVE

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For the ps3 you could go through the ps3's Ethernet (1go) (ftp) then it's super fast transferring games to the internal Ddd :)
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Re: Help choosing HARD DRIVE

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darkscad wrote:Thanks for your answers.
:bravo:

I'm going to get a 500go external hard drive (specially for backups).
:mrgreen:
however I didn't think that USB 2.0 limited the file transfer (data) to the ps3...
that's not nice $ony... :o
Sony has nothing to do with it, it's the usb2 standard and its max transfer rate that causes that.
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Re: Help choosing HARD DRIVE

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Oops wrote:
darkscad wrote:Thanks for your answers.
:bravo:

I'm going to get a 500go external hard drive (specially for backups).
:mrgreen:
however I didn't think that USB 2.0 limited the file transfer (data) to the ps3...
that's not nice $ony... :o
Sony has nothing to do with it, it's the usb2 standard and its max transfer rate that causes that.
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sony is the good guy nintendo is the baaad guy :93: :93:
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Re: Help choosing HARD DRIVE

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lol
At bigN I don't like the minimalist policy for their consoles and their games...except for the hack :bat:

For sony it's exactly the opposite :mrgreen: :93:
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Re: Help choosing HARD DRIVE

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I'd like to know the max size you can put internally :?:
please
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Re: Help choosing HARD DRIVE

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patounet wrote:I'd like to know the max size you can put internally :?:
please
* the thickness of the hard drive, the standard size is 9.5mm above that it's too big and it won't fit!.
5400rpm and not 7200rpm because it'll heat up in the console!
mandatory in sata or sataII.
the max acceptable by the ps3 is 640go... a friend just installed a hitachi Samsung of that size it works. I'll give the reference (if he kept the receipt)

*reference: Samsung HM641JI
Size: 640GO. 8mo cache.
EDIT/ I currently own it, I'm very happy with it!

1 tera hdds are too big +12mm (thickness).
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Re: Help choosing HARD DRIVE

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What's the cache for in a hard drive?
8Mo/ 16Mo / 32Mo?
EDIT: nothing
Can it affect the backups?
loading speed?
edit: same

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