Hacking Should I use a specific HDD for internal use ?

[L3gi0n0fh311]

I am on a Slim PS3 with CFW installed...I want to transfer my game ISOs to the console's internal HDD...

I am looking at a 1TB 2.5" drive...

Do all 1TB 2.5" drives work ? Does it matter if the drive is Seagate, Toshiba or WD ?

 

[godreborn]

it doesn't really matter as long as it's 9.5mm high. it won't fit if it's larger unless you remove the caddie, which you probably wouldn't want to do.

 

[L3gi0n0fh311]

I've heard that some HDDs cause in game slow downs etc...is this true ?

 

[Magsor]

I've heard that some HDDs cause in game slow downs etc...is this true ?

No ps3 use the slowest ones at 5200 rpm. But that's what you get around these days anyways the only other option is SSD.

 

[modsbox]

One consideration is an SSHD. These are hard drives that have an SSD-like cache in them. Basically the most frequently used content gets automatically cached to a small SSD, making load times for the same level or similar content decrease quite a lot.

The Seagate Firecuda drives are these and offer way better load times, which are *really* hard to take on PS3 after you game on a PS5 or XSX at all.

Looks like the 2TB Firecuda variant (which is what I have) is unfortunately quite expensive. If you care about this it may make more sense to get a cheap 1TB SSD instead depending on how many games you are playing at any given time. An SSD would probably massively improve install times for PS3 games, which are also awful. Maybe find some benchmarks and see what works best for your budget?

Here's an old video of the Firecuda load times comparison. It's pretty wild.

 

[Magsor]

One consideration is an SSHD. These are hard drives that have an SSD-like cache in them. Basically the most frequently used content gets automatically cached to a small SSD, making load times for the same level or similar content decrease quite a lot.

The Seagate Firecuda drives are these and offer way better load times, which are *really* hard to take on PS3 after you game on a PS5 or XSX at all.

Looks like the 2TB Firecuda variant (which is what I have) is unfortunately quite expensive. If you care about this it may make more sense to get a cheap 1TB SSD instead depending on how many games you are playing at any given time. An SSD would probably massively improve install times for PS3 games, which are also awful. Maybe find some benchmarks and see what works best for your budget?

Here's an old video of the Firecuda load times comparison. It's pretty wild.

PS5 is wild on loading time. SSD will not improve loading times much because its sata but it will run much cooler and PS3 likes that. You only need 500gb really 1 tb is killing it.