Will/can Sony allow for NTFS 7200rpm HDDs?

[X400]

like the title says

Will Sony be able to (with a patch) upgrade the hard drive so that it can accept higher RPM drives or even switch it to a NTFS format

or even come out with a new generation PS3 that has a harddrive upgrade?


im not sure how beneficial it could be to gaming (faster load times, ??), but i know my video files will be thankful for that sort of upgrade

[binarymelon]

The PS3 hard drive is easily upgradeable. Just Google it and you'll find a few hits.

[Shin-Ra]

7200rpm drives have already been successfully fitted.

[JasonR]

Is there a need for a NTFS format on a PS3?

[binarymelon]

Originally Posted by JasonR

Is there a need for a NTFS format on a PS3?

I think right now, only FAT32 is supported which doesn't have large file support.

[Supermac359]

Switching to a 7200 rpm drive will not be any faster than the stock 5200prm drive. The load times are determined by the PS3 CPU,GPU and the optical drive. The main reason why load times vary from game to game are because of the data being extracted at any particular time. If you have a game load onto the PS3 in its entirety there will be a slight but albeit negligible increase in speed.

[Shin-Ra]

Bottom of the second post in this thread, look for the heading 'Great information about HDD speeds:'

~9.4% time improvement across the tests he did.

[X400]

ahh ok sweet 7200rpm upgrade here i come

now im just hoping for ntfs

[martinstraka8282]

I know Im hoping for the ability to create folders and subfolders.

[dillycheeze]

check this out....i have my ps3 standing vertically in a top section of a new custom entertainment center i just built...under the bottom of the ps3 i drilled a hole...bought male to male SATA data and power chips, ran female to female data and power lines from the ps3, down thru the hole, into a cooled hard drive enclosure in which i installed a 3.5" western digital raptor x 10,000rpm drive w 16MB buffer....lets just say its fast and obviously my ps3 is unaffected by the heat

[reiella]

Originally Posted by JasonR

Is there a need for a NTFS format on a PS3?

Sorta, you can't format a SuperLarge FAT32 partition on Windows.

And as others mentioned, it would involve licensing fees from MS to deploy.
As a sidenote, the PS3 already does license WMA and some WMV codecs from MS.

[ps3andlovinit]

Has anybody ever confirmed it uses FAT32 internally? I know that's used for external USB drives .. but that would more likely have to do with universality/default format for most of those drives. AFAIK the game OS is a custom java/Linux combo so I'm not convinced FAT32 is actually the internal HDD format. Just curious if anybody knows for sure.

[MozartMan]

Originally Posted by ps3andlovinit

Has anybody ever confirmed it uses FAT32 internally? I know that's used for external USB drives ...

FAT32 is only for external media (USB flash drive, USB HDD, etc).

PS3 using proprietary format for internal hard disk drive.

How do I know that? I can copy 11GB M2TS video file from BD-RE to internal HDD on PS3. FAT32 doesn't support files more than 4GB in size.

[ps3andlovinit]

Originally Posted by MozartMan

FAT32 is only for external media (USP flash drive, USB HDD, etc).

PS3 using proprietary format for internal hard disk drive.

How do I know that? I can copy 11GB M2TS video file from BD-RE to internal HDD on PS3. FAT32 doesn't support files more than 4GB in size.

Thanks. It was something I had assumed .. but wasn't able to confirm. Good to know since there has been stuff floating around about the PS3 itself having file size limits for playback .. due to it being FAT 32.

[X400]

ye i can put 12gig mpg files

but mp4s are limited to 4gbs :/