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Sutherland will be Big Boss, Hayter will be Solid Snake.... I betcha'

John Riccitielo makes some good points in his article. Wonder if he will be doing more things like that. Im sure he has a lot of insight on certain matters that could make for some interesting reads.

Sony's next Playstation could come from the future, beamed down from the Enterprise itself and they would still "meh" it.

Tested with Internet Explorer and Firefox as well, none fare any better. The twitchtv embed runs smooth as glass though so it has to be the new player

I have this same problem but have no extensions in Chrome. Very choppy. Would say like 7 frames a second kind of choppy. It's only like this on the new video player

Platinum trophy'ed PS3 version just now, with final trophy being the Escape from jail. Most proud of this Plat because it was sheer random chance I didnt mess the Daedric artifacts up after going through the whole game without looking at the trophy list.

I have the Intel X25 80 gig SSD in my Slim. I have used a variety of HD's in the past and tested them regarding speed with various games, tasks, etc.

Regarding degrading performance with SSD: Even a completely full SSD is faster than the fastest normal HD, TRIM or not. HD platter speed in a PS3 is of no consequence because the PS3 limits any drive to 5400 rpm. You have to go big in HD size to increase the speed. The fastest 500 gig is still much slower than the slowest, smallest, much used SSD.

Performance increases I have noticed:

1. Topic of the Month. The Skyrim performance issue is greatly reduced with the SSD, by what I would arbitrarily count as mmm, 90% ? It was a stark difference after starting Skyrim with a normal HD and playing till an 8 or 9 meg save file after 50 hours or so. Another hundred hours tacked on after swapping and it still runs great, I can still see the need for a fix after starting a fresh character to test, though.

2. Rage: You know that texture de-rezzing and loading? Gone. I'm talking like 99% gone. Like the type of gone that is so quick you can probally only notice it if you try really hard to look for it. Huge difference.

3. Mass Effect 2, downloadable version: tested the difference between the 80gig SSD and a normal HD with a completed save file and loading between decks on the Normandy. Seconds of load time were in the 20's for the SSD and in the 30's for normal HD.

4. Most games with an install will benefit the same as Mass Effect( I.E. 5 or so seconds for levels, give or take.) Is it worth it? Ehhh, for me it was because I like tinkering with things like this. For most everyone else I would say probably not.

5. Save game access and messing with XMB is snappier with the SSD.

6. You wont really see any difference with total disk based games(Portal 2, Uncharteds, etc. Installing games from a disk isnt any faster either really because the limiting factor being the blu-ray drive speed. Downloading a game or demo then installing it is significantly faster though in the install part of that process.

Various comments:

The PS3 operating system does not support TRIM but the Intel SSD's are supposed have a built in memory controller thingy that is supposed to prevent a data file from being re-written in the same spot on the SSD to prevent a certain spot from wearing out over time at a greater rate than the rest of the disk. This may not be accurate but it is what I gathered from reading the info that came with the Intel disk.

The Intels have a 3-5 year warranty on them, something to think about.( The new ones have a 5 year warranty)

Mine is 1 year and 6 months old and I use it every day with not one problem this whole time.

This is my anecdotal evidence and remember, as always YMMV.

Hmm, I would try deleting the install data and re-installing. I recall this helping in other Bethesda games with similar problems.

This will probally not help anyone here, but after 60 hours and an 8 meg file i switched my 120gig HD over to my 80 gig SSD in my PS3 to test it out and it fixed what I would guestimate at about 90% of the performance issues. No real performance issues(mostly) since and I'm sitting at 145 hours and 13 meg save file.