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Sony PS3 with new 80GB X25-M SSD

Sony PS3 with new 80GB X25-M SSD

By: Daniel Chubb | October 15, 2008 | 4 Comments

The small hard drive that comes with the Sony PS3 can easily be upgraded thanks to an easy slot loading solution; we recently upgraded our Playstation 3 with a much bigger 160GB hard drive.

Other than the problematic machine tightened screws, it’s easy to replace the internal PS3 drive. What’s better than a 160GB or 250GB hard drive is a Solid State Drive solution.

ExtremeTech have replaced their PS3 hard drive with a new 80GB X25-M SSD, the results showed that installs from disc are basically the same thanks to them being limited by the Blu-ray drive speed. Although they did get a 30 to 40 percent increase on installs from downloaded games and post-installation load times.

That’s a nice speed improvement but at a cost, the SSD costs around $600. Hit the read link below for full details.

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  • Mark

    Are all bloggers here tech cretins?

    “installs from disc are basically the same thanks to them being limited by the Blu-ray drive speed. ”

    I think they need a crash course on drive speeds. The PS3′s Blu-ray drive is faster than the 360′s DVD and Wii’s DVD drives….

    http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=42157

    Please stop your clueless PS3 hate…

  • James

    how the f*** is that ps3 hate? you are one stupid f*** Mark

  • Adam

    “installs from disc are basically the same thanks to them being limited by the Blu-ray drive speed.”

    Mark,
    Nowhere does that say the PS3 blu-ray drive is slower than other systems to install. What it does mean is that copying to the HDD will be limited by the read speed of the blu-ray drive instead of the HDD. In other words there is no benefit to upgrading the HDD for blu-ray game install speeds. That is not important anyway since it is only done once. What matters is the day to day loading of data from the HDD.

  • james braselton

    HI THERE YOU ARE WRONG THE WINNER IS THE 512 GB SSD FROM TOSHIBA BIGER FASTER AND LAST LONGER BECUASE THE HOURS GO UP WHEN THE SPEED OF THE SSD GOSE FASTER AS WILL AND USE LESS ENERGY SO WIN WIN FIR EVERY ONE