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| 24 of 24 people found the following review helpful By This review is from: Seagate Momentus 500GB SATA 2.5 inch Internal Hard Drive OEM, 5400RPM 8MB Cache, Sony Playstation PS3 Compatible (Personal Computers) First of all Amazon provided a competitive price and prompt delivery for this Hard Drive.After reading a number sites regarding this Hard Drive upgrade for the PS3 and watching nurmerous video's on Youtube, I decided to take the plunge and upgrade my 40gb HD on my PS3. I only wanted to perform one upgrade so I decided on the Seagate 500gb Momentus HD. The whole process was easy, firstly back up all your saved data via the System settings, use a portable HD formatted to FAT32 ! Use Swissknife V3 to format to FAT32. The physical change of the HD was simple, pop the cover, undo the blue screw, slide to the right and remove. I read alot that the 4 screws that secure the HD in the caddy were really tight and difficult. I didn't have this problem, just make sure you use the correct size philips screw driver ie a smaller one. I re-fitted the new HD and Bingo ! The PS3 recognised I had changed my HD, it asked me to format it, which I did, the system restarted and I had a... Read more 13 of 13 people found the following review helpful This review is from: Seagate Momentus 500GB SATA 2.5 inch Internal Hard Drive OEM, 5400RPM 8MB Cache, Sony Playstation PS3 Compatible (Personal Computers) to start i wasnt to sure whether to go down the Seagate or W.D route when choosing a drive but after reading Forums i decided to go for Seagate and i must say i am very happy with my decision the drive installed very easily i seem to be getting a fantastic sustained transfer rateand it runs very quietly,Overall i must say i am very happy and would thouroghly recommend this product, 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful By Ramim01 (London) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase( What is this?) This review is from: Seagate Momentus 500GB SATA 2.5 inch Internal Hard Drive OEM, 5400RPM 8MB Cache, Sony Playstation PS3 Compatible (Personal Computers) It works perfectly with my PS3 and it is quieter than I expected. I have been using it for almost a month now on the PS3 (original 60GB model) and it has not given me a single problem.It's a very good hard drive to buy, especially for upgrading you PlayStation 3 storage. I would recommend this to any PS3 users who are running out of space! |