Best 750 GB HDD for PS3

[yothp2p]

Oh! thanks for all the answers. I just found an interesting choice.

Hitachi Travelstar 5K750 0J11563 2.5" Hard Drive - 750GB, 5400 RPM, 8MB, SATA, 2.5"

79.99 $ (winner!, cheaper than both WD and seagate)

Anyone of you here has used a Hitachi HDD? I never see anyone talking about this brand before. After an hour searching, couldn't find a product review anywhere (even Amazon.com has none!) but after looking at Hitachi's website, I found a tool that can patch/modify the HDD interface.

Feature Tool
Version 2.15
Changes ATA Drive Settings
Configure SATA interface.
- Adjust maximum speed and enable/disable spread spectrum clocking.
...

Downloads

I assume that this is the same as Estool on Samsung HDD and I can go back to SATA1 with this tool if stuttering ??

I don't like to be the first one to try this HDD but the price is very attractive. Any recommendation? please feel free to discuss here.

P.S. Thanks for the info about the 1 TB HDD though but I prefer the 750 GB better, I'm too afraid to break some small piece of craps out of the HDD tray

[str3atwarrior]

I've used hitachi's HDD before in unix server, if i recall it was about 2 years ago, never got a problem with it. Server was mainly used for file transfert/stockage. So i'd say you're good to go with this one!

[phantom8]

@yothp2p, I'm in the same boat as you. The Hitachi 5K750 is very attractive. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any reviews of people putting it in PS3. However, I read that people had success of putting its cousin 7K500 which is a 2.5" 500GB 7200RPM drive.

If you find additional ps3 compatibility info on the 5K750 drive, please let me know.

[armourine]

Sorry to sound so noob, but I have a launch phat ps3. Is it possible to replace the HDD with all the ones mentioned above?

[afiser]

i got a 640gb samsung for like 30 bucks on newegg because it was "open box" item.

awesome deal seeing how i have not even began to completely fill it yet.

[AzzA]

I got a
Seagate Momentus ST9750420AS 750GB 7200 RPM 16MB
installed it last week works great, installs go quicker to boot

[Darkensteele]

Sorry to sound so noob, but I have a launch phat ps3. Is it possible to replace the HDD with all the ones mentioned above?

I just changed my phat launch 60gb to a 640gb, so it should be fine. Read the entire thread though as I believe anything over 750gb and you must modify the hdd tray; good luck.

[oholio]

No offence mono, i was refering to the link posted oholio from newegg

750GB was 95$ with a 5$ saving, i paid 99$ for my 1TB drive, that's why i was saying this...

Hope the one you got works well for you! That's the most important thing, if you're happy with it then it's a good thing!

I actually paid $60 for it via Ebay. I just found it on Newegg to use as a reference.

[robo989]

DO NOT BUY A WD SCORPIO BPVT.

BEVS\BEVT IS FINE.



No offense with my post here but I have owned a 640GB BPVT and there is no way around the stuttering\freezing.


I'm pretty clued up when it comes to these things (sorry if that sounds big headed don't mean it to). Bought literally hundreds of BEVS\BEVT drives over the past couple of years for use in Xbox 360 (flashing them to act as genuine Xbox 360 hard drives).

There's 1 problem with them, which is fixable by using WDIDLE3, and that is just to disable to head parking feature so they don't constantly click and pause on the Xbox 360 dashboard.



....


The Newer BPVT drives (as seen on higher capacity drives) have TWO PROBLEMS.

1. The head parking timer - FIXABLE with WDIDLE3.

2. The spindown problem - NOT FIXABLE!!!



Your games will still work fine and so will the PS3 but you will have massive stuttering on certain games making them unplayable (GT5 prologue stands out as a memorable one to me) - Completely unplayable.



Not only that but you will have 1-2 second pauses when accessing certain options on the XMB as the drive "spins up"...then spins down again after only a few seconds.



There is NO SOLUTION to this problem on the PS3, there is on a computer, by installing a program that turns of the spin down setting at each boot, but nobody has made a utility that works with these drives to permanently turn if off - after a cold boot.

Various utilities will show that it has been turned off - but it hasn't.

Believe me, I've tried everything


It's certainly not a game killer on the whole, so if you've got one then just use it, but if you have the choice - why even bother?



...Would just like to add that I suspect a lot of people who have these drives and point blank tell you they're fine, simply haven't played the games that have the stuttering really bad - and they think the XMB pause is "normal" because they haven't used a PS3 without the issue....I thought it was normal myself for a while....

Again, I'm not talking about wdidle3 here, that fix for the lower capacity drives has been known for donkeys years. I wrote a tutorial myself for fixing it about 2 years ago on xbox-scene!

[josh1095]

i have a seagate momentus 7200rpm and it works great. no probs after a month of use. the only thing that sux is it takes up a certain percentage of ur hdd just by formatting it. think it took like 60gb on my 500, maybe more.