Playstation 3 hard drive upgrade

[nicky.mattsson]

Hi

All, i have just upgraded mine to a 500GB (7200rpm, 16mb cache) and its great, i have over 300GB storage on Play TV and plenty of space for demos, music, pics... the lot.

Just started doing the conversion for a few mates around my local area, done about 10 so far.

Anybody else done it yet and have they come up against any problems?

I was thinking of advertising the service in the area, what do you guys think?

[paul26982]

what price you get your hard drive at

[nicky.mattsson]

Paid £90 i think. Quite good i thought

Also been researching and it does not void the warranty

[paul26982]

yeah, know this along time, get yourself over to ps3-hacks.com forum, thats were im at, been doing this stuff along time

[Dare2Fail]

£90 was a little expensive I think. When I upgraded mine a few months ago I'm pretty sure I only paid £65-£70 for the hard-drive. The upgrade was completely trouble free as the PS3 pretty much does all the work.

[Civpilot]

The instructions that come with the console actually include a couple of pages on how to do this (along with pictures). So not really that hard if anyone wants to try (certainly not worth paying someone else to do)

[Daniel1]

anyone want to do mine

[Silverbullet767]

Samsung 500GB

£56.99

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/468815/samsung-hm50...

[paul26982]

Silverbullet767 said:

Samsung 500GB

£56.99

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/468815/samsung-hm50...

thats around the prices ive seen too

[R1 GTR]

nicky.mattsson said:

Also been researching and it does not void the warranty

That's the good bit. If I ever have a spare few quid I am going to whack a big unit in mine, probably 320GB or therebouts.

Edited by R1 GTR on Saturday 5th September 20:43

[nicky.mattsson]

Civpilot said:

The instructions that come with the console actually include a couple of pages on how to do this (along with pictures). So not really that hard if anyone wants to try (certainly not worth paying someone else to do)

I thought that, but i made up a few posters and stuck em on the car this morning before going out. Got 2 calls and 1 booked in I thought there are enough people out there who would be to scared to do it themselves no matter how easy it is

Daniel1 said:

anyone want to do mine

Where abouts are you?

[nicky.mattsson]

paul26982 said:

Silverbullet767 said:

Samsung 500GB

£56.99

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/468815/samsung-hm50...

thats around the prices ive seen too

I thought that was the price for 5400rpm and 8mb cache, i have 7200rpm and 16mb cache. I have noticed a difference in startup and load speed