New Hard Drive

totalsolutions

I personally would not get a seagate, never touch them, were called seacrate, because they were always in a crate back across the sea....

espresso

Zebra wrote: »

The only differences between the two seem to be:
Interface type: ATA-133 (Hitachi) and ATA-100 (Seagate)
Seek Time: 8.5ms (Hitachi) and 11ms (Seagate)
Are they both compatible?
What about fitting - will they be easy? And will they need formatting or something?

So pick one with a similar spec. to the existing one. I did say that you would get varying opinions regarding the manufacturer!

Zebra

espresso wrote: »

I did say that you would get varying opinions regarding the manufacturer!

:rotfl:

Thanks everyone - great advice as always!

aliEnRIK

totalsolutions wrote: »

I personally would not get a seagate, never touch them, were called seacrate, because they were always in a crate back across the sea....

Intriguing ~ youd better phone sony and tell them their PS3s are filled with rubbish

old_codger1

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Intriguing ~ youd better phone sony and tell them their PS3s are filled with rubbish

Yeah, I never had any particular problems with Seagate. Certainly no more than any other brand anyway and I must have bought between 7 and 8 thousand drives over the 20 odd years I was buying that sort of stuff before I retired, (a couple of years ago now). Have they got noticeably worse since then? Hmmm... possible I suppose, but I doubt it.

More to the point there returns procedure was better than many of the others. Well, again.. up till a couple of years ago, anyway.

totalsolutions

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Intriguing ~ youd better phone sony and tell them their PS3s are filled with rubbish

Always use the cheapest parts they can source I guess, like anyone else. I would not use them if you gave 'em to me. I have much better taste than you, thats all.

aliEnRIK

totalsolutions wrote: »

Always use the cheapest parts they can source I guess, like anyone else. I would not use them if you gave 'em to me. I have much better taste than you, thats all.

My point is simple ~ ive never heard of a PS3 hard drive break down........