What's the best hard drive upgrade for my PS3?

My PS3 only has 40 GB capacity and that's nowhere near enough for me. I was thinking of either getting what's called a PS3 320 GB Hard Drive Upgrade Kit for $85 or some other hard drive, like an external hard drive from Toshiba with the same amount of memory for $59.

What do all of you recommend? Which one is the better offer in terms of compatibility with the PS3, or is there some other hard drive upgrade I can get for even better value that I'm missing?

I can't seem to decide between an external or an internal hard drive, so get back to me on that.

i bought a 640gb hd on newegg.com for 60$ just look for a laptop size hd, they are pretty cheap now

i bought a 640gb hd on newegg.com for 60$ just look for a laptop size hd, they are pretty cheap now

Onigiri1033

Was it an external one or internal?

Can I ask what the hell you would need 640gb of space for. Thats insane hahaha

I was thinking of getting a wetern digital 500gb scorpio blue i think. Around $60 or so if I can remember. Or you can get an external iomega 1tb for around $100 or so. It does a pretty good job as well.

I upgraded my PS3 hdd to 320GB. Wasn't that hard except for the screws.Its good if you want to store alot of videos on it. I plan on making my own server and have my PS3 get media from that but thats not an option for everyone.

You are right garfield. It takes a sata 2.5 laptop hd internal. 5400 rpm seems to do the best since the oem hd is a 5400. But I have seen 7200 ones being used too. I would stick to the 5400 myself. Just get a good name brand

I'm thinking of getting this one since I would prefer to go external.

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i bought a 640gb hd on newegg.com for 60$ just look for a laptop size hd, they are pretty cheap now

Tigerman950

Was it an external one or internal?

The 640gb is internal, it was a sale on newegg.com its 2.5" in size, which is used for laptops.

I dont need 640gb, it was a spur of the moment thing. Good thing tho that I'll never have to worry about making space ,and can install all games on ps3 as i buy em.

I usually recommend Western Digital brand but really, anything will do just fine.

I wouldn't go less then 500GB since the price difference is very negligible vs bonus space. You can find 500GB for 55-60$ while 320GB around 45-50$.

For extra 5-10$ you will gain additional 180GB.

Keep in mind that is not the actual size you will get once you install the hard-drive. On my 500GB HDD I had around 450GB free. ;)

I put a 250gb 7200 RPM HDD on my old 60gb ps3. There was no difference in speed just my ps3 became insanely hot because of the speed. Stick with 5400 RPM, 7200 RPM is not worth the extra cost.

As many movie's and music as I have stored I switched to the 500gig and may get a 1 tb external hd