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I want to upgrade my Playstation 3 HDD and i know that the PS3 benefits from the cache and not the rpm speed(7200rpm performs the same as 5400rpm or worse in some cases).

I think i read somewhere a while back than Toshiba came out with a 2.5 HDD, 5400rpm with 16mb cache, but im not sure of it's capacity.

i'm looking for 320GB or 500GB with the above specs.....can someone direct me to a place where i can buy one from? if all fails, i'll just get a 2.5 HDD with 5400rpm and 8mb cache.

thanks!

I have the Toshiba 2.5" 16MB cache 5400RPM drive - they only did it in 80GB, so it's not exactly huge.

You're choices are really...

Hitachi/160/7200/16
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=773811

Toshiba/160/7200/16
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=798934

Samsung/320/5400/8
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=800122

Hitachi/500/5400/8
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=802975

Bear in mind that as capacities go up, so does data density. :)

But I don't think you'll find a 16MB cache drive on any of the larger ones.

i don't know if this is any use to you, put i thought it might be worth a try:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=459

fastest conventional HDD build so far, iirc.

The 300GB Velociraptor drive might be in a 2.5" form factor, but it's taller than normal 2.5" drives.

I'm not sure how much extra height the PS3 has available, or whether the HDD bay is only 9.5mm tall.

Either way, I'd be worried about the heat that drive would put out when stuffed into the confines of a PS3... :(

Amusing that someone asks about a slowest drive and you point em to about the fastest.

Although the Velociraptor is a 2.5" drive, it's in a 3.5" form factor with heatsink and all. So I very much doubt it'll fit a ps3 except maybe if you ruin your warranty and mod it or make an external mount of somekind.

Eh, there's a thought, make an external box with a 1tb drive.

If it is in a 3.5" form factor, why is it called a 2.5" drive? Wouldn't this be a problem for the vast majority of laptops?

Yeah very much so, and as I understand it, it's not aimed at laptops at all, mainly server rooms to put in place of 3.5" drives to get better performance, oh and probably nutcases with too much cash for their own desktops too ;)

WD put the Velociraptor in a 2.5" to 3.5" adaptor heatsink more for looks and usability for the consumer than any real need to have that size heatsink on it. As far as I can remember from what I read in a couple of reviews of it, anyway.

I'd quite like one of those drives, I admit. Not sure I want the price they're asking - £200 for 300GB is a little on the pricy side. I can get 2TB for that! And I might well do, as the TB drives aren't exactly slow.

A 2.5" drive and it runs at what 10k rpm? yes, it does need a heatsink. My regular 10k raptors easily run at 50degC. In their intended raid purpose it gets a lot of heat in not a large space.

And I think I read it is like 12-15mm or around that while standard drives are 9.5mm so it likely wont fit.