PS3 Firmware 3.0 Favors The Slim Way More Than The Older Skus

[dharh]

BHR-3 said:

dharh said:

BHR-3 said:
i think the 7200rpm doesnt make a real diff its actually the HDD cache size that speeds things up wen HDD shopping for ur ps3 go with the stock 5400rpm (so u dont get things hot and feel guilty if ur ps3 breaks) but look to get a bigger cache size

this does mean alot b/c although it a small diff now i have a feeling the firmwares are only going to continue to help the slim while doing nothing to the fats

another note 3.0 actually slowed things down on all the other games they tested

Someone needs to test that as well. It's already been tested that a 7200 rpm hard drive in the PS3 fat outperforms the stock 5400 rpm drive (both at 8mb cache) so testing hard drives at 5400 16mb and 7200 16mb could be a good test. 

i only read this about the ps3 HDD test

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/745/745407p1.html

both 60gb 8 cache and 100gb 7200 rpm 8 cache where the same

 

would like to know wat sizes and caches are in each ps3 sku since there are alot wondering if they ever changed the specs

This article (http://www.gamepro.com/article/features/138288/7200rpm-vs-5400rpm-does-ps3-hard-drive-speed-matter/) suggests that a 7200 rpm drive can have speed advantages.