I am looking to replace my 80gb hard drive in my ps3 with a larger one, mainly cause I have a psn plus and need more room for downloading games. I don't know much but I understand it should be pretty easy to do, it's just a question of what hard drive to get. I'm thinking 500gb will be more than enough and lots are under $100. here are some of the ones I found on amazon.

1Western Digital 500 GB Scorpio Blue SATA 3 Gb/s 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Notebook Hard Drive - WD5000BPVT .$75

2. Seagate Momentus 5400 500GB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 8MB Cache 2.5 Inch Internal NB Hard Drive ST9500325AS-Bare Drive $65

3.Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500 GB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 2.5 Inch, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM SATA II WD5000BEVT$85

So if anyone could help or have better suggestions let me know. Will any of the three work? Like I've said I don't know much and don't want to break my ps3

thanks

Any of those will work just fine. There's no real rule other than making sure you don't get one that's over 500GB. You run into a bit of slowdown as it takes longer for your PS3 to read it.

@RJPelonia: thanks for the advice, I know everyone says its easy so hopefully I don't fuck it up

Seagate Momentus 5400 500GB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 8MB Cache 2.5 Inch Internal NB Hard Drive ST9500325AS-Bare Drive $65 on amazon

went with this hard drive. Switching the old one for new one was really easy and seems to be working fine. used my PSN+ cloud space to save all my saved games than put them all back onto new hard drive and have been downloading games since.

Any particular reason you are sticking with 5400rpm drives?

Is there an issue with 7200rpm or faster in the ps3?

Edit: I just read this article, 7200rpm and faster drives do work in the PS3, they say the benefits are minimal, but saving 6 seconds off a game loading time sounds worthwhile if the price is right.

I saw people suggesting 7200rpm didn't always work or atleast some were more problematic. I figured I would go on the save side and pick one I knew I wouldn't have any problem with.

i have a 7200rpm ssd hybrid (250gb) in my ps3 works great loads games pretty fast. However any game that is disc heavy will still be slow.

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@BoFooQ Gonna do this myself. Do you need any special cables or something?

I'm also interested.

Does anybody know if there is a simple way to transfer data over to the new HD? I really don't feel like swapping back and forth with the HDs transferring everything via the cloud.

I actually just did a swap yesterday (PS+ sucked me in)

You can backup your data on any USB storage device, it was pretty easy.

I had to download firmware from playstation.com to format the new drive, but the ps3 prompts you the whole way so no problem.

The drive I put in is 7200rpm I haven't noticed it being any faster but I haven't messed with it too much yet.