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CaNCeRthecrabus on 11 July 2008

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9987407-1.html?hhTest=1&tag=cnetfd.mt

Seagate announces first ever 1.5 TB drive... but that's not the real news for PS3 owners.  At the end of the short article they announce the first 500GB 2.5in Laptop drive at 5400 and 7200 rpm's come Q4 of this year.

I've been waiting to replace it because I didn't want to upgrade to a 200 or less (because I wanted the 7200, not another 5400) and hoping that a 300+ 7200 would be out someday.  With this news, I now know that I will be replacing my hard drive with a brand new 500GB 7200rpm soon :)

What say you all?



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saab on 11 July 2008

Well I bought my western digital 320gb hard drive already when that was big news...I think I will be hanging on to it for a while, but awesome news...pretty soon we'll have a 1tb laptop drive to put in our ps3's




Staude on 11 July 2008

I just got one today.. turns out my screw holding the drive accedently got...... err.. busted by a busted screw driver.. not sure how to get the screw out now lol.. damnit XD ps any solution is welcome.

 

btw its cool but i heard that 7200 rpm is bad for the tripleicious.. that it heats it a lot more than it should.



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Dogs Rule on 11 July 2008

Slightly on topic which of the following features would be overkill for a PS3 HDD upgrade:

- 16MB cache?
- 7200 RPM?
- 3Gb/s?



HideoK on 11 July 2008

One thing to consider is you will likely see a negligible difference in perform between a 5400rpm HDD and a 7200rpm for the added cost. Not to mention the added heat that the 7200rpm might generate could potentially overheat your ps3. I think people recommended 5400rpm for that reason to be on the safe side heat wise although the article below debunks the heat and noise with a good ps3 sound dampening design.

Here's a performance look between the two they tested:
http://www.gamepro.com/sony/ps3/games/features/138288.shtml



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skip on 11 July 2008

one thing to note is that when they increase the size of hdd they make them thicker so it might not fit in the ps3 anyways.

 

home > news > world's first 500gb 2.5" hdd released

World's first 500GB 2.5" HDD released

Published: 3rd January 2008 @ 7:17 PM
Author: Steve Dougherty


Hitachi have pushed the barrier of mechanical notebook storage today with the introduction of the world's first 500GB 2.5" HDD, this raising the capacity limit by a whopping 180GB over previous drives.

Dubbed the Travelstar 5K500, this HDD operates at 5400RPM with a seek time of 12ms. Hitachi were able to squeeze 500GB into the drive by using three platters with a 260Gb/in² areal density.

There is a downside however; the drive's thickness has been increased from the standard 9.5mm to 12.5mm to fit all three platters inside the casing, this making the unit too large to fit inside the majority of notebooks currently on the market, not to mention external enclosures too.
As a result of the above, Hitachi are aiming the drive more so at PC makers who may choose to make more space available for it in next-gen systems. On that note, ASUS were quick to respond in announcing that they plan to design the world's first One Terabyte Notebook by allowing for enough space inside to carry two of these new Hitachi drives. You can read the full PR about this here.

The official announcement on the new 500GB TravelStar can be found here folks.



saab on 11 July 2008
HideoK said:
One thing to consider is you will likely see a negligible difference in perform between a 5400rpm HDD and a 7200rpm for the added cost. Not to mention the added heat that the 7200rpm might generate could potentially overheat your ps3. I think people recommended 5400rpm for that reason to be on the safe side heat wise although the article below debunks the heat and noise with a good ps3 sound dampening design.

Here's a performance look between the two they tested:
http://www.gamepro.com/sony/ps3/games/features/138288.shtml

I read several articles on that subject of the 7200 rpm disk drive, if it would be beneficial, all of them pretty much summed it up saying that it wouldn't do enough to overheat your console, but also it wouldn't be enough of a difference in speed to get excited about, I did further investigation and called a sony rep and was told that there would be no negative side effects of putting in a 7200 rpm drive, the ps3 would handle it fine and it still wouldn't void warranty, I ended up going with my western digital 5400 rpm 320gb drive.

 




dbot on 11 July 2008

I paid more money for a 7200 rpm drive with less storage. If I had it to do over again I would probably go with a 5400 rpm drive. I don't really notice much of a differnce and I could use the additional space. I think the heat issue is overblown, I seldom hear my fan turn on.

As Staude mentioned earlier some of the screws are easy to strip so be patient and use the proper tools when you swap drives.



Thanks for the input, Jeff.