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Don't spend the money on a 7200 RPM Drive. Regardless of the drives actual speed the PS3 will read from it at the same rate as the factory harddrive.It might be how the PS3 does the formatting of the drive.
Honestly the OS would not be affected in any way by a new HDD. It's all in RAM after you boot the console. Formatting doesn't matter, maybe there's some kind of partition on that drive already...but I don't think the PS3 would report it as "used" unless it could see it.
Quote from: Ceric on June 05, 2014, 11:11:41 AMDon't spend the money on a 7200 RPM Drive. Regardless of the drives actual speed the PS3 will read from it at the same rate as the factory harddrive.It might be how the PS3 does the formatting of the drive.False, this was proven to speed up load times and install times back in 2007, just a year after the consoles release. Plus, it's widely known that hybrid drives and SSDs also great increase those things. Plus, in games like GTA5, the draw distance and the speed that it loads the world is increased.
Quote from: Oblivion on June 05, 2014, 08:52:59 PMQuote from: Ceric on June 05, 2014, 11:11:41 AMDon't spend the money on a 7200 RPM Drive. Regardless of the drives actual speed the PS3 will read from it at the same rate as the factory harddrive.It might be how the PS3 does the formatting of the drive.False, this was proven to speed up load times and install times back in 2007, just a year after the consoles release. Plus, it's widely known that hybrid drives and SSDs also great increase those things. Plus, in games like GTA5, the draw distance and the speed that it loads the world is increased.I like a link to what you read. I've done research on this every year and it always go back to just clocking it back to the original speed.
The first and last links will be more pertinent to your interests. Even then, a hybrid drive is MUCH better for makes those things faster than a 7200rpm, mostly because the 7200 can overheat the PS3 and may cause a YLOD.
I decided to upgrade my HD to ensure that I had enough space to patch all my games and download new ones. Plus I figured a 7200 RPM drive wouldn't hurt. So I had an 80 GB hard drive that was pretty much completely full. My backup said it was 63 GB. Then on my new hard drive I show 116 GB used after restore. Did something mess up in the transition? Do I need to re-restore? Everything seems to work fine. Games play, they all look there. I put in a big enough HD that the extra space isn't too detrimental. I'm just confused how I would end up with more unless something was corrupted.