(PS3) Testing performance benefits of a 7200RPM, 16MB HDD vs the stock HDD.

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Dogs Rule said:

dbot said:
I bought a Seagate Momentus 7200.2 ST9200420AS 200GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive in March. I don't notice any additional heat or noise from the drive. The drive cost $170 back then. There really isn't much of a benefit for the installs from Blu-ray, as you pointed out the Blu-ray is the bottleneck. I do notice that downloaded games load faster. If I had to buy another drive, I would probably choose a 5400 rpm drive with more space.

Certainly the 3.0Gb/s is overkill though. As far as I know the PS3 will only do 1.5Gb/s, right?

That doesn't matter none of the 7200 rpm HDD drives are capable of reaching sata 1 maximum transfer speeds. Even 10k rpm Raptors (which definitly are big nono in ps3) are maxing somewhere around that levels.