Sadly that's irrelivent.  You and your friends just happen to be in the small bucket of failing PS3 oweners.  The majority aren't.  Of the three current home consoles the Wii is the most reliable followed by the PS3 then the 360 (that's in terms of LTD, I suspect the new slim 360 is more or less as reliable as a PS3 now but in total 360 will never have anywhere near the average failure rate for Wii/PS3 due to the RROD failure levels).

The reason people make a big deal of RROD was because it was a big deal - when talking about failure rates individual experience is meaningless : you're playing with averages not individual experience.

Now seems a good time for someone to write an article about how PS3's shoddy hardware is reason #57,386 that the Vita is doomed. Get cracking, Gamespot!

Sorry, everyone.

OMFG!!! I just tryed it on my old 60gb that died in 2007 and it works! 

I know :) but now I can get all the photos I lost and game saves and my COD4 lol

Just reflow is It happened to my 60gig original ps3 last year when I was playing tekken 6 so I had to reflow it to get the game out of the ps3 ( Cause I was only renting it) then quickly sold the ps3 while it was still going and brought me a slim lol

Good point, I forgot about that. Although I think my buddy had one of those external hardrive cases, so he put his old PS3 harddrive in the case then hooked it up via USB to his new PS3 and transferred the old data to his new PS3. That may be a lie, I would need to check with him to verify.

right i have a new Ps3 now but my old one still won't turn on, i have done the method with the fans and hair dryer for hours and it still isn't working.. its now sitting in my freezer downstairs
is there a way to just get the data off? if i connect a cable can i not just do it that way without having to set it to do it from the old PS3.

im so fucking angry right now, its taken me around 4 hours now.

i have also tried everything to get the disk out.. it aint coming out any time soon :(

...No gaemz.