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[Snowy]

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[ME##]

The manual cautions you to use 5,400 rpm HDDs and you'll want a 2.5" SATA drive [same as laptops].  You could also just get an SSD if you're so compelled, but the speed boost isn't as noticeable as it would be on a PC. 

[LCK]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152242

quick newegg search
the only 1 terabyte, 5400 rpm, 2.5 inch drive

there ya go

you can easily search another retailer, most of them have all of these as search options

[LCK]

Microcenter's site only has 2.5 inch, 5,400 RPM drives up to 500 gb just so you know

[Commander Fuckass]

I'm not a tech jokey, so can you just dumb that down for me?

SSD=faster than a HDD
but the speeds are only noticable on a laptop than the PS3

[Daddy]

the speed difference on an SSD would also be apparent if the PS3 lets you save games on the disk drive itself rather than on the disc.


SSDs contain no moving parts and any piece of data takes as long as any other piece of data to access. Additionally it does not have any latency involved in moving parts to get to the next sector of data.


A Hard Disk Drive on the other hand has several platters that must be spun and then a head that must move up and down to read certain sections.  Means that some data may be on the outer edge of 1/3 of the platter while the rest of it is in the inner edge at another part so the platter must rotate and the head has to move before more data can be read. 


This is why SSDs are so much faster.

[LCK]

I went onto their site, and found a 650gb 2.5 inch 5,400 RPM drive for like $70~$80.

Now to get a wire to migrate everything form my old HDD to the new one.

I'm still not seeing one but okie