MarketTantrik Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 7200 rpm HDD may increase your PS3's performance From PS3 Fanboy http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2007/10/02/7200-r...3s-performance/ _______________________________________________________________ The standard HDD that comes with your PS3 is 5400 rpm -- not bad, but not the best on the market. We've stumbled across a write-up detailing the addition of a different hard drive, running at 7200 rpm, and its effect on a various array of games and other such things. While we wouldn't recommend you all rush out and do this, as long-term effects can't possibly be gauged just yet, it's still interesting to consider the ways Sony fans can customize their console to be unique. We'll outline the results below. * Temperature testing against the two hard drives yielded a minimal difference; no overheating will occur with a 7200 rpm drive, ostensibly. * Installing demos after downloading off the PSN had an average of ten seconds shaved off due to the higher rpm drive, except that Tony Hawk demo, with destroyed over forty seconds of install time. Impressive. * Loading games generally yielded minimal results, unless you consider 2 seconds of load time a big deal. In conclusion, yes, a 7200 rpm drive increases your PS3's performance, but it's generally nothing that makes soil our underwear. While two seconds off load time is nice, it's not like we'd do much besides scratch ourselves in that time frame. And sometimes, it's a great itch to scratch and playing a game would totally throw us off. Thoughts? _________________________________________________________________ I would have thought that it would be pretty obvious that a higher speed HDD would improve the PS3's performance --MT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinitwins Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 what about a HDD with a larger cache - that could improve the burst read speeds as well... V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted October 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Not unless the PS3's caching routines can take advantage the extra cache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinitwins Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 uhhh? from what i remember, the cache on a HDD is used by the drive mechanism to improve sequential read speeds (which in turn is limited by the interface speed viz. ATA66, ATA100 or whatever) V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted October 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Yeah, but is also means that the system using the HDD with the extra cache must order the read requests in a way that allows the cache to store the most requested data on it. If the HDD is fed requests for fresh data frequently, it will reduce the usefulness of the extra cache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinitwins Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 i said sequential read speeds - if the system is loading a large texture or map (that is not fragmented on the drive) then a larger cache WILL improve performance. V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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