When you have Gran Turismo 5 installing over 40, individual files onto your hard drive, this is of crucial importance. There have been a large range of different PlayStation 3 SKUs over the years and typically Sony locks in a particular hard drive supplier per model. The chances are that the choice of drive is dictated entirely by the deals the platform holder can arrange with any given supplier, as opposed to any real consideration about how good the drive itself actually is.
One particular developer, which uses the HDD extensively to cache game data in its top-rated openworld game, spoke to us off the record about how the 40GB drive's performance level was significantly worse than the launch model's 60GB disk, requiring a code rewrite to cope with the lower throughput.
A quick look at the drives used by Sony reveals a large degree of variance in the drive spec. The poor performance of the 40GB drive comes into focus here just from a perusal of the basic stats - not only is data less densely packed onto the platter, but also the onboard cache of the drive is a paltry 2MB, whereas the launch model's 60GB drive had four times as much.
Seek time - a crucial element in hard drive performance - is also poor. Based on what we know of the raw specs of the drives, the simple act of moving to a higher density drive should, in theory , give you a performance boost regardless. The question is just how much performance is there to be gained by paying a premium for a more expensive drive? In the four years since the PS3 launched, has hard drive tech moved on to such a degree that even a cheapo drive will outstrip the performance of your original HDD?
While the SATA interface within the PS3 remains a constant, hard drive tech has improved radically over the years with drive vendors offering a range of models with significantly different performance levels. In our testing we are including an original 60GB PS3 stock drive, along with these carefully chosen alternatives:.
So, an interesting range of drives to put to the sword encompassing a range of spec levels and technologies, while the inclusion of the stock PS3 drives gives us a strong indication of what kind of performance increase we can expect, if any.
In testing these drives we cover off the process of installing game data from the Blu-ray drive, plus we use Gran Turismo 5 and BioShock - two games with some mammoth loading times - to judge improvements to in-game performance. Digital Foundry specialises in technical analysis of gaming hardware and software, using state-of-the-art capture systems and bespoke software to show you how well games and hardware run, visualising precisely what they're capable of.
In order to show you what 4K gaming actually looks like we needed to build our own platform to supply high quality 4K video for offline viewing.
So we did. Our videos are multi-gigabyte files and we've chosen a high quality provider to ensure fast downloads. We think it's a small price to pay for unlimited access to top-tier quality encodes of our content. I tried. I tried a eSATA cable powered unit, did not work. Also, it will not add to console heat, I am guessing lengthening the life of the console itself. If you don't want to go this route, any laptop,hybrid, or SSD 2. I had a GB rpm laptop drive in before the upgrade with no adverse effects.
Some have warned against heat and power requirements of rpm drives over drives. For the enclosure I ended up using a 1TB 3. An enterprise server drive might have been quicker.
I would recommend a desktop drive over an enterprise drive due to the fact I keep the enclosure always on for convenience. Everytime I power on the PS3, it's already fully spun up. I've done it and it's stupid easy. Just follow one of the zillion FAQs out there. One tip, grab the latest Sony firmware and dump it on a USB stick first. Make a backup, replace drive, install firmware, restore drive, reactivate system from the PSN menu.
That's it. I did this a long time ago, and I have no reason to disagree with any of this. The PS3 is still good for working as media access to a TV, and that may be where a larger drive will pay off. There are a lot of PS3 games available cheap, and it's a decent Blu-Ray player.
That was what I bought, and that's OK for gaming. I needed the drive bracket to do that. In addition, if you choose USB 3. The GoFlex Desk external drive delivers high-capacity storage, backup and encryption for all your files with its plug-and-play USB 3.
You can use it in many situations and it performs well. Setup is easy. Just connect this drive to a PS3 console and make a quick formatting. When you need to expand the storage of PS4, which one will you choose?
Step 1: Prepare a USB drive or an external hard drive and connect it to your computer. Please note that this drive should be large enough to store all the content of the original PS3 hard drive. Step 2: Convert the partition on the drive to FAT32 file system. If you do this in Disk Management , you should delete the partition and then create many small FAT32 partitions, which is not convenient. Free Download. Four ways are here.
Step 1: Turn off the PS3 and the system. Then, remove the plug for the power cord from the electrical outlet, and then detach the other cables from the system. Step 3: Use a crosshead screwdriver to remove the screws 4 places and then lift one end and slide the hard disk out to remove it from the metal frame. PFD files so in case you modified one of the. SFO, then you need to "update" the list of protected files inside the.
SFO is always in the list. When you update the. You will also need to "rebuild database" at the end of the process. The PFD "update" is one of the commands inside "flatz pfd tools", it returns some info about the protected files inside the table with an "OK" at the end of each line when everything is fine.
Any modern larger drive is always faster than the older default smaller drive. A difference of 2. There is even report of SDD's sometimes having a negative impact on performance, compared to the original PS3 harddrive. There have been verified success of 2TB external harddrives working with the PS3. The whole drive needs to be formatted into a single 2TB FAT32 partition using special software tools like fat32format.
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