PS3 HDD Upgrade Question

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I am looking into swapping out my OEM 80gig HDD with something alittle “beefier”. I already know how to swap out the drive itself, but I was puzzled to see that Sony optioned to use the 2.5" SATA I 5400rpm format in a $600USD machine. SATA II has been out for quite a time prior to this.

So my question is: can or will my PS3 (CECHE01) “fat” console benefit from using a 2.5" SATA II 7200rpm HDD? Is it even compatible or if installed, will it simply default to 5400rpm disk speeds?

Thanks!

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  1. The sata 2 drive you have does it have a sata 1 jumper?
  2. 5400 run cooler than the 7200, ps3 seems to generate allot of heat.
  3. so i say get a drive that 5400 sata 2*,3 (make sure they have jumpers for sata 1)

heat is the number 1 killer of electronics man

there are smarter people than I here

you might want to wait for them as well

good luck

heres a link on psn about it

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a 7200rpm drive will fit, and honestly you won’t notice that much more heat. I upgraded mine to a 7200rpm drive I had, no noticeable heat.
SATA II is backwards compatabile with SATA, and vice versa. You’ll have no problems.

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There’s little speed benefit from 7200 rpm drives on the PS3.

At least that’s what I’ve heard.

You can definitely put in 500GB drives although why you’d want to go that big is beyond me unless you want to download a bunch of movies.

Biggest I’ll probably put in the system is 320GB unless the larger drives drop in price…

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Thanks guys!

I did not have much luck in finding anything useful that would tell me what exactly the PS3’s SATA controller was capable of, which is why I thought someone here might know. I know what the OEM configuration is of course, but that did not tell me what exactly the system could handle. For all I know, the PS3 could handle something much better than what Sony originally equipped it with.

I will probably go with a 200-250gig SATA 3.0Gb/s 7200rpm unit then.

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i dropped a 320 in mine cuz i got one for 65$ at frys. shit was a 5 minute job. have fun d/ing bluray quality =)

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there is honestly no point in placing a 7200 drive in your ps3 the difference is only fractions of a second. plus you generate more heat. i replaced mine with a 5400 and its fine. there is no benefit in putting a faster hard drive in your PS3, you wont even notice a difference.