Hardware Test PS3 Slim VS Fats Slim Faster By Almost 3 Minutes!!

[Hidalgo]

Scoobes said:

Hidalgo said:
I changed my HDD for a 7.200 rpm one. The improvement it's great. But surely PS3 Slims' Blu-Ray player got upgraded, so it might be a matter of both things improving IMHO.

I was always kinda worried about going for a 7200RPM HDD. Doesn't it cause more heat in the console?

Well, now that you ask me, the answer is "maybe yes". My PS3 is a 60gb one, so it generates much hot for itself. However, when I changed the HDD I didn't notice any issue with the heat. As a matter of fact, my room is quite small and it gets hot quickly, but the PS3 doesn't seem to care about it. Nevertheless, the performance increases with shorter loading times. For Example, the XMB-in-game comes up quicker, and games load much faster (in Far Cry 2 the difference was about about 6 seconds faster).

 

If you are worried about reliability, my brother and a cousing both also have a 7200 rpm HDDs and they are fine! They're happier with their PS3s actually.