Konceptz
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| [ps3] Western Digital Velociraptor In PS3?
Had a crazy idea last night, I'm basically going to purchase a PS3 in the next few weeks. Brother has a Wii and I already have an Xbox 360.
Seeing as the new Western Digital Raptor drive is is 2.5inch form factor...does anybody know if this badboy will work in a PS3?
I would love to have 300gb hard drive that spins at 10K RPMs in my PS3.
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Cabal
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| said by Konceptz  :Seeing as the new Western Digital Raptor drive is is 2.5inch form factor...does anybody know if this badboy will work in a PS3? I don't believe the new drives use a standard laptop configuration for their ports.
said by Konceptz :I would love to have 300gb hard drive that spins at 10K RPMs in my PS3. I don't think you would. It would be needlessly loud and hot, and you wouldn't see a big improvement while gaming. I never notice my 5400 RPM drive in my PS3 being accessed now.
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Konceptz
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Chesterfield, VA | I know it would fit, the drive uses the standard sata 3.0 port, but the thing is would it work? and raptor drives aren't that loud.
I was hoping somebody here had already tried it. |
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I mistakenly went with a 7200RPM 200GB drive, thinking it may have some effect on performance. It does not. A 10,000 RPM drive would add heat, make the fan louder and games less enjoyable, but wouldn't add to game performance in my experience.
The only thing a faster drive seems to do is slightly increase installation times. This is a very very small percentage of use. I'd suggest getting a low power 250 GB drive if you can, they run about $100 and are what I'll install on my 2nd PS3 whenever I'm motivated to do it. Installation of a laptop SATA drive on a PS3 is trivial. However, I suggest watching a video or two on youtube just to make certain there is nothing not completely understood. Some real time installations seem to take only a couple of minutes.
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justin
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I wonder if anyone has tried a solid state drive. That would be insanely expensive but also very quiet and cold and fast too. |
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BonezX
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um, fyi, there's a good reason that the harddrive has a big ass heatsink. |
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Konceptz
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| said by BonezX :um, fyi, there's a good reason that the harddrive has a big ass heatsink. Western Digital already commented that the heatsink is more cosmetic then functional. |
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1 edit | said by Konceptz :said by BonezX :um, fyi, there's a good reason that the harddrive has a big ass heatsink. Western Digital already commented that the heatsink is more cosmetic then functional. how much airflow do you think is going over the harddrive that costs around $300 inside that ps3 ?
i got a raptor 150(bigger and more surface area) that has a fan dedicated to airflow over that and the thing is still hot. |
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Matt
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The Velicoraptor doesn't use the standard SATA connectors on the back according to every article I've read. The big ass (cosmetic) heatsink is really just a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter and has some weird adapter built in so it works with standard SATA.
If you can plug a SATA cable in, there's no reason it wouldn't work though. SATA is SATA is SATA. The Raptor just spins the platter faster. |
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BonezX
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Matt
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| said by BonezX :it uses the standard adapter as far as the tech sheet says. I was mistaken. It's the 3.5" chassis that doesn't position the SATA connectors in the proper location. The actual 2.5" drive has them in the correct location. |
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MOTO6809
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Konceptz - Check this link out, it has some useful information..
»boardsus.playstation.com/playsta···id=32840 |
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That drive will not fit into the PS3, the drive is 15mm high (9.5mm is the limit).
»boardsus.playstation.com/playsta···g&page=1 |
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