I would love to upgrade all 5 of my PlayStations. An SSD for my 3 and 5 is definitely top of the list.

Great video.

Limits of the SATA II i/O .

My PS3 has a 1 TB hybrid hard drive. Before SSDs were cheaper hybrid hard drives or apart regular hard drive part SSD. At the time hybrid hard drives were the cheaper option. Because of that I don't have a reason to switch my hard drive out for an SSD because the difference in read write speed isn't that significant because of how slow the PS3 is. It only recommend going to SSD if you were going from the original style hard drives to it, otherwise there's a significant jump over hybrid hard drives. Of course nowadays if you're going to do it, just go SSD as they are cheap now.

I've been using a 1TB SSD on my hacked PS3 for years, it's easily worth it IMO

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One of the biggest differences for me was dark souls 2, going from disc which loaded 20-30 seconds on deaths or teleporting to about 5 seconds with an ssd

This upgrade has 2 other bonuses that makes it worth it the XMB Menu works better but also games perform slightly better not just loading faster but actually playing closer to what they should've played as since the console doesn't have to allocate as many resources to loading the game anymore once its loaded its loaded

Anyone thats ever played ffxiv on a ps3 when it was still supported knows that an ssd was pretty much required lol. It was ridiculous how long loading times were without it. Like when you queue in a dungeon or w.e it was very easy to tell who was on a ps3 without an ssd.

People always state “it cant take advantage of the hardware”. Those people have no clue, what they are talking about. The menu is improved, pop in is improved, and the screening tearing is gone. So the major complaints are gone. Any game that needs internal storage will see a massive difference. Far Cry for example is such a big difference. The SSD will always perform better. GTA V being installed on the SSD only huge difference in performance, and load times. Im not sure what SSD I put in my PS3 super slim. But theres not really load times. Im doing the same thing to my PS4 to increase its performance, & mainly storage.

Always wanted to do this project myself with my own fat PS3 but sadly I had no controllers and eventually gave up, glad to see someone else had the idea and uploaded it.

I've seen this video. That was really dumb. This guy paid $500 for an S. SD for his PlayStation, 4 for 500 gigs. When it came with a terabyte out of the box, I don't like ssds. Especially if you're getting the same space, just get a hard drive or a hybrid

It's a freaking massive improvement. So much so a few games actually perform better due to less loading pauses dragging the minimums down. It's incredible and totally worth it if you love your PS3. Get one with high endurance. I got a 500GB 860 Evo for mine and it should last the life of the console with care.

On a note, the PS3's SATA connection is only SATA 1 which is only 150 MB/sec. A 7200 RPM HDD does around 170-ish (the stock PS3 is a 5400 RPM, which is 100-ish MB/sec). Plus the PS3 pre-dates TRIM, meaning if it does a classical defrag it will shave massive life off an SSD in the long run. If you want a true improvement, score yourself a 512+ GB 7200 RPM mechanic drive.

not to nitpick, but you pronounce Fthreer weird

I was wondering about that since i got ps3 recently.

Great content man! Keep it up! So many awesome details.

Big work. Thank you.

when you are copying the disc your not testing the hdd/ssd writes. your comparing the disc read speed right?

I responded to a Reddit thread years ago of someone asking if an SSD would speed up their PS3. I was down voted because I said it would, but brainlets on reddit said the SATA speeds would make it not be any faster. Go figure then a non moving drive is faster than a moving drive. Who'd thunk that. Great video!

I installed a ssd in my ps3 too. The big thing holding back the ssd speed is the ps3 sata controller which a sata I. The iops are way better than a spinning hdd.

Great test! 15~30 seconds per load time it's great!

imagine the world record speedruns that were barely optimal were set by people with an SSD PS3

Would have been cool to see power draw as well, SSDs are a little more efficient as well.

I have 1 tb sdd in my ps3 slim

I there a 1TB SSD in my 20GB launch unit just to see what would happen with the digital release of MGS4…loading screens…all of them…gone

Great video! at the time you released it i could very well have been doing similar testing on an xbox one x with an SSD, a mechanical drive, and a hybrid which leads me to a little bit of constructive criticism (whether or not you've changed things since, i do not know, so this could be void now) and that's with the testing from booting the game to gameplay, which whilst still being a very valid real-world test (as sometimes you just want to jump into a game) i find it flawed due to the often unskippable intros, and the navigation of menus. I find it better to split it into 2 separate tasks (boot to main menu, and from clicking play to being in game) as this more accurately represents the load times which you will encounter much more frequently (e.g. you beat a level and go onto the next, or die and re-load) and as such i consider it a more important metric, and because it cuts out the unavoidable intros and shows you the actual performance difference of the drives

I miss the old days where we had an external power brick so if it stopped working, all you had to do was buy a replacement online instead of taking console apart and replacing the internal power supply

The best way to play Infamous is mostly in order: Infamous, Infamous 2, Infamous: Festival of Blood, Infamous: First Light, Infamous: Second Son 😊

Pacific rift. Man I grew up on that game

I upgraded my old PS3 storage with a cheap AData SSD from AliExpress long ago, the improvement on speed and load times was actually unbelievable and I strongly recommend the upgrade for anyone asking me, for any system where the upgrade is possible.

Not too bad, but you can see that the console is unable to fully utilize the SSD.

I might I suggest some way of trying to use a newer M.2 NVMe drive to see what the performance is like? Maybe there's some kind of adapter to make it work.

wow they used Swap Meet by Nirvana in the main menu of Motorstorm Pacific Rift, never noticed that before. Very underrated song

My brother was an early adopter of SSDs....he had a 32GB SSD but he didn't pay $699 for it...I think he bought it when it was like $300...I thought he was crazy for paying $300 for 32GB when you could get like a 250GB or 320GB mechanical drive for about half that....but at the same time I wasn't into PC gaming at that time....What I used a PC for was very light...web browsing, listening to music and watching videos. About 6 years ago I got into PC gaming and realized how important an SSD really is...I had a laptop with a 512GB SSD and 1TB mechanical drive and put my AAA games on the SSD and put stuff like emulators, ROMs, music and movies on the mechanical drive. Now I just have an SSD in my laptop and just need more space for everything I do on it...

Thx but I still use HDD External 1TB less than $100 plus 50 P$3 Games too btw

Why does KZfaq NOW recommend this?? This is what I’d like to see day of.

my modded ps3 fat lost the capacity to play burned ps2 dvds when I installed an SSD, only cure was to return to an hdd

Definitely play the first Infamous before 2.

play both infamous games

there has been many arguments about whether or not the ps3 fully utilizes the 1tb ssd , it is suggested it only recognizes 500gb of storage.

aktshullee ☝🤓 the first mass produced SSD was made by SanDisk in 1991 with 20MB for $1000

For GT 6 in practice you might not notice that much, the game loads the map as you tune your car, so if you are used to tuning your car before racing, it will be almost instantaneously, just try it, open the start race menu and wait a few seconds before pressing to start, it will take less time to load as it would have already loaded part of it

I think you should've also tested GTAV tbh. Ig the HDD is too small for it?

I recently had this question. I vaguely remember finding an answer but I'm glad I was recommended this video. Thank you!

Two things to note about the installation of fear 3. It's either a limitation of the BluRay drive or a limitation of the SATA generation that both HDD and SSD are connected to. It's likely that it's a little of both. Even HDDs saw an improvement in performance shifting from SATA 3 gbps to SATA 6 gbps

I noticed a similar difference just upgrading to a newer, larger HDD. The HDDs they included in the PS3 were notoriously slow, even by HDD standards! I don't like the idea of using an SSD with an OS that doesn't support TRIM.

That cpu is bottlenecking the SSD for sure. Also I am pretty sure the original PS3 is probably using SATA 1 speeds, bottlenecking the SSD even more.

hi, well long time ago with a slim console i made an hdd upgrade replaces with an mx500, some games like syrim had some improvment, such as graphica texturel loading better , everything sounded so smooth...:)

Doesnt seem that its worth the money since Ps3 anyway wasted like 10% due to bad coding of HDD biger HDD the biger waste os space