I have had my MGS4 80gb ps3 for almost 2 years now and i have had no problems. When i insert a disk the pas3 makes a small noise because it is reading the disc as answered on another forum. However i keep reading online that the ps3 blu ray drive and laser usually fail many people keep saying that sony charges 150 dollars for it to get repaired. I ahve a warranty with bestbuy but i like my 80gb since it has a memory card reader and some backwards compatibility. Anyways should i be worried?

I haven't heard anything that bad about PS3's disk drives.

I've got a launch 20 gig and it's still runnin.

If it breaks... I'll prolly try and fix it myself before i pay sony honestly.  Needs my BC.

I wouldn't stress about it though...

I don't think there is reason to worry... and even if there is... why bother?  It won't do you any good anyway.

Worrying will do you no good except make you lose your hair (or grey it).

If you're really worried, sell the damn thing and have piece of mind.

If it breaks, it breaks, just take care of it. Nothing you can do outside of that will affect anything. But, I would recommend backing up your data if at all possible as that's always good practice for anything important.

SUPPOSEDLY the Old(B/C, 4 USB) 80gb has problem with Blu-Ray Drive, My Old 80gb works fine and hasn't had a problem yet, I think the only ones that have problems are the launch models, and even then you have to be a bad owner or in a bad environment to break them.

Between myself, family and friends we all have 5 launch ps3s (3 60s 2 20s) and only one of them has had any problems, tho it was knocked over. I would not worry to much and if you do have a warranty its even better.

I've got a launch 60 gig and it's never had any problems.

I don't understand what people do to their systems. I had a launch PS1 that still runs fine. My launch PS2 had several hundred more hours put on it than my PS1 and it lasted 6 and half years. I got another one and it's only problem was I bought PS3.

If my 60GB ever does happen to kick the bucket Sony would need to send me back a 60GB with BC right?

Nope.  They send you back new models without BC.  Hence why i'd get mine fixed myself.

It happened to a friend of a coworker who was confused why his PS3 didn't have BC anymore after he got it back from Sony.

He had an old 80 gig and it got replaced with a new 80 gig.

That's legal? O_o

How could they send you back something with less options than the one you sent to them for repairs?

All reports I've heard is they send you back your own or a refurb of the same model if they are available (most people get refurbs) so, you'd get your 60GB back.