PS3 Hard drive vs normal hard drive.

[neelsooon]

I have a question I intalled windows on ps3 HD, on my computer It lasted about 1 hour and 20 mins to intall. And I feel the computer is slow. and laggy (It should not be since is a clean install).

So my question is are the ps3 hard drive more slow than normal hard drive.

My normal HD is a WD green 2TB(bought it like 3 years ago) but is full of stuff and I decided to do a clean install whitout formatting and took away the hard drive from my ps3.

PS3 HD; Toshiba 160gb MK1665GSX SL01 S

Normal HD WD20EARX-00PASB0

I almost dont use my ps3. So but can someone tell anything about that.

Thank You for your time.

 

[plaintuts]

Ps3 was released 8 years ago

 

[iamacow]

Well yeah they are slower..first off they are laptop hard drives that spin at 5600RPM. second they are made extremely cheap and only needs to read at most at 20mb/s. I pulled my 160gb out of my PS3 slim and benchmarked it. I got 45mb write read speed.

your WD Green is 5600RPM also but has read speeds around 100mb/s

 

[bliq]

The PS3 HDD is older, meaning most likely slower rotational speed, less cache, older SATA tech.

So yes, it's going to be slower than a more or less modern 2TB HDD, even a green one that probably spins at 5950rpm. In all honesty, there's not much innovation happening in consumer hard drives anymore. Not for several years. Some, but not much.

 

[neelsooon]

Thank you guys, I timed both using the crhonometre on my phone and found this.
PS3 HD from computer beep to facebook.com 4mins.
My WD green HD from computer beep to facebook 1.39 mins.
Quite a difference. Thank You guys anyways, Back to the drawing board.