[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]EDIT:Actually re-reading your post, that may be an excellent question. I know that 10KRPM drives aren't anything new, but how many of them are 1TB models from more than a year or two ago. Especially considering that I don't think that we had much of any 1TB hard drives a whole seven years ago (10KRPM or not), so I'm questioning the legitimacy of that member who claims to have put a 1TB 10KRPM hard drive in a PS3 seven years ago. Heck, even if they were around, it'd have been an incredibly expensive hard drive, at least about as expensive as the console was seven years ago. I can't see much good reason to put such a hard drive in a console at the time.[/citation]
The person who mentioned 1TB 10k drive in a PS3 and 10 year old tech is an idiot. Server drives were SCSI and a COMPLETELY different tech than the kind of drives you can throw into a USB SATA enclosure and plug into your PS3..
Not to mention, I'm pretty certain the PS3 can't break 7,200rpm speeds, certainly not through a USB 2.0 port, so putting a 10k drive in it sounds pretty stupid, unless you're talking about hacking it and removing the internal drive, which you still have to consider BUS speed on the board as a limitation if anyone knows what kind of onboard controller the PS3 uses.
Basically, the idea of plugging in your own USB external drive for your console is fantastic and getting rid of the overpriced rip-off model of using hard drive space to tier the consoles is awesome. Expect Microsoft and Sony to follow suit with their next systems and all of you are to benefit. Now you can go drop 100 bucks on 2TB's of storage and be happy rather than upgrading your 4GB Xbox to the 250GB Xbox for the same price