Photo of PS3 hard disk

News taken from french site play3-live.com - babelfish translation.

"The official PlayStation 3 site reveals to us a photograph of the hard disk which will be present in both packs of the PS3, 20 Go and 60 Go. Sony reminds us that this hard disk could be changed by the user, by any disc with the format 2,5 inches."

[DJ]

I'll probably buy a 120GB drive and just shove that in. Only $90 so I might as well. =]

http://www.newegg.com/Produ...

[kmis87]

It's really cool that they made it so any 2.5'' disk can be used, but I wonder how that would work with the stuff that needs to be installed from the getgo like the Os and the web browser. Will that not matter or will information need to be transferred to the new drives before they can be used? Anyways, having a choice on what drive to use instead of having to pay a ridiculous amount for a proprietary drive is a good thing.

[HyperBear]

I think the OS/Linux will just built into the PS3, like i think it will be saved elsewhere not on the HDD, but everytime you turn it on, with HDD in or out, the OS will appear other wise, giving you the option to put other HDD's that are 2.5", which Ive got tyo say is a really neat feature to add on to the many neat features of the PS3. But im not quite sure how that OS/Linux thing will work.

[Brandon]

i think that the os will be on a flash memory like the psp or bios for computer, instead in the hdd you can put video/demo/music and other things, plus you can install linux if you want, i hope that they will use standard table partition not like that damned ps2 table :P

[CAPS LOCK]

but it is still good news though. the 360 had a 20gb drive forever and there have been no upgrades either, also the 360 os takes up about 13gb.

the ps3 is not out yet but sony still impresses me , they give us a choice so we dont have to always buy products made from them.

[bung tickler]

the os does not take up 13gb it takes up about 7 and you can remove some of the extra stuff to free up more space.

[Brandon]

but 7 gb it's still too much for an os that is just an embedded os, vista take up to 8gb and it's still too much but it's a complete os, a minimal installation of linux with kde take up to 700mb and you have a lot of things that an embedded os for a console doesn't need, you can also run linux within a floppy for just 1.4 mb so it's really strange that xbox use all that space

[shotty]

Its' 7 GB reversed for system use. IE. Game updates, system caching, user profiles and whatever microsoft needs. The OS is on a bios since the xbox 360 runs without a harddrive, something the ps3 can't do.

I'm pretty sure when swapping harddrives your going to have to use some sort of USB cable to plug the new harddrive in to transfer data, which I think the xbox 360 is doing.

Also in defence of the xbox 360, you can also use any harddrive with that to save music and videos and it plugs in through USB.

[EnforcerOfTheTruth]

...just another master stroke by Sony. Honestly, who wants to fork out $99 for only 20GB? Probably only blind MS fanboys that doesn't even get MS is screwing them bigtime.

DJ - your linked HDD ain't serial ata, it's the old format ATA = IDE HDD. SATA costs a little more, but not much, around $10. I did a little research for my great slogan that I have as signature in a forum:
Twice the size, but half the price, thanks Sony !!!
http://www.newegg.com/Produ...

[DJ]

My bad. Thanks for the heads up.

[FeralPhoenix]

Yeah, I like the idea that you can use any 2.5 HDD with the PS3 thats was a very "cool" move by Sony...at the same time I don't think the HDD size is that big of a deal for either console because I simply brought a 3rd party adapter for about $20 bucks that lets me transfer downloaded content from my 360 to my 100gb laptop, but either way since I prefer "choice" I would still say this is a definite plus for PS3.

[andy capps]

Scriptkiddie- Why did you vote lame on this article? Don't like the harddrive in the picture? Don't like that Sony is offering choice to it's buyers over what size harddrive to get? Or is it just because you vote lame on every PS3 article? I think we all know the answer to the above questions...

This isn't new news, but it's cool to actually see a picture of it.

[videl]

i will buy a big hdd for my ps3! thats nice to hear that it is 2.5", nice work sony ! they should stick to standards and they do it!

[Marty8370]

Great news that PS3 uses a standard 2.5" SATA hard drive.So PS3 gamers will not get ripped off paying Microsoft silly $99 price's for a 20Gb.Funny thing is dumb Xbots are paying it.lol

[shotty]

Hey, I got my harddrive included. Also remember the xbox 360 launched last year, so for the price of a 20GB harddrive last year, I sure you can get a 60GB this year.
Also it's not like your getting the harddrive for free, you still have to buy a replacement ;).
FYI: the xbox 360 has the exact same harddrive it's just in a fancy case, so amatuers don't ruin the harddrive by droping it, breaking the pins or getting their finger prints on it.
It's makes swapping harddrive easy for anyone, like someone that doesn't have internet at home can pull off the harddrive and take it to their friends house and download some demos there and bring it back home. The case protects the harddrive, imagine trying to do this to your laptop everyday.

The good thing is ps3 gamers can get a harddrive as big as they want, but this brings us to a question of how the OS is going to work.

[psxnitro]

The thing I liked about the ps2, is that it allowed the user to put in any type of hdd in it, and now that ps3 will be implement the same principle, it's looking much more desirable in my eyes.

And to think, if NAND SSD drives becomes mainstream... can you imagine the speed gain the ps3 will get from having a SSD drive...