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Studio:Western Digital OEM

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Western Digital HD Scorpio500GB 25 SATA 5400rpm 8MB WD5000BEVT Components Internal Hard Drives

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- PS3 upgrade

Works like a dream, I just cant Sony are making such an issue of selling the different versions of the ps3, especially the limited edition 160gb version.
Buy the cheapest and get this upgrade is my advice!!

Words of warning though!! get the correct screwdriver before you start(I have the draper expert number 1), the screws are insanely tight and are made of some of the softest materials man can buy!
Have a read up on Sonys site they have a forum and dozens of people have wrecked the screws! http://uk.playstation.com/ps3/

Use an external drive and backup everything in system settings, makes the whole process easier, saves you having to install every game again.

You may also need the newest update on a memorystick, currently version 2.53, needs to be in "PS3/UPDATE" (in caps) on the stick otherwise it wont see it, full instructions are on the sony site also!
I also checked out some upgrade videos on youtube, search "ps3 upgrade" easy.

Hope this helped. I'm over the moon with my system now, runs cooler than before and have started copying over all of media!

- Top Quality

I bought this as an upgrade for my macbook and I have no complaints at all. It runs as quietly and as quickly as my old hard drive and I've had no problems with it whatsoever. Thoroughly recommended!

- brilliant upgrade for PS3

Great upgrade, i now have all my (very large) music collection on my PS3, as well as all my photo collection and i don't have to worry about deleting trailers and demos to free up space. fantastic.
just be careful with those screws if you're removing/refitting into the PS3. don't even THINK about starting til you have the correct size screwdriver, as you'll just chew the heads up!!!

- Easy Peasy PS3

Ok let's get one thing straight, you will NOT have a HD with 320GB of space, once I had it in place it stated 269GB, not a problem, loads of space. Now that is out of the way I shall proceed.

This is a great little drive, easy to install. I'm not a techincal savvy kind of guy but I'm able to try most things and after reading reviews about the difficulty involved with the screws I was a little wary of changing the drive on my PS3 but with only 40GB drive filled to capacity I had to attempt it and with a little trepidation I jumped in.

I backed up all my data on to an external 500GB drive, took about an hour.

I then unplugged all connections and then removed the black panel and there before me was the infamous blue screw..... I have a small tool set which has those small screwdrivers but also has the interchangeable head set type as well. It's one of those cheap kits and I used the phillips head. The Blue Screw came out with no problem at all. I then slid the drive sideways a bit and pulled it out.

Now to remove the drive from the casing, this is where so many people have had problems with the screws. Not a problem as long as firm pressure maintained and an audible crack signals that the screw is free and can be unscrewed easily, do this for each of the 4 screws. Remove the old drive and it can be used for a backup source if you get a case for it.

Carefully I placed the new drive in to the housing, reattached the screws, back into PS3, Blue screw replaced, black panel back on, reconnect leads and powered up. Prompt to format drive, took a few minutes, reconnected external backup drive and restored the information. That took about an hour and now I have a PS3 which has more storage space than my laptop!!!

No problems at all. But now I have had it in a month and have noticed that the cooling fan does come into play a lot more, not sure if this is because of the new drive, a minor annoyance but when you're playing COD at 2 am and have the sound turned down it can grate a bit.

There are a number of tutorial videos on the web that show you how to do this and the cheap tool kit is available here on Amazon.

Remember that even though it is a 320GB drive it will not actually state that when you check capacity on PS3 menu, see other reviews for the reasons for this.

- it works a treat in a macbook

Ok I'm not doing the "it works" thing with out saying what its working in!

Right it works in a 2007 black 2.16 core 2 duo cpu macbook. This is a 2,1 version macbook with an intel SATA 1 controller running at 1.5 GBit/s. Western digital drives that are SATA2 (3 GBit/s) will auto configure to run with all intel SATA 1 hard disk controllers! There is a SATA 3 (6 GBIT/s) out soon and according to western digital's www apart from very early SATA1 HDD controllers all SATA 1,2,3 hard drives by them will work forwards and backwards with SATA 1,2,3 controllers on mother boards. It may be possible to put a 500 gig 7200 rpm drive in as apple sell 250 , 320 gig 7200 rpm drives now. So all macbooks and macbook pro's from mid 2007 (core 2 duo with intel sata 1 controller) will take a 500 gig 5400 rpm sata 2 western digital HDD, as for other makes as long as the drive auto senses and behaves like a SATA 1 HDD then there shouldn't be a problem! This drive has been running perfectly for 5 days now and it does boot quicker than the SATA 1 drive I had in before. To replace your old HDD with this one took about an hour and a half including installing leopard 10.5 . This drive is a quality product and is recommended highly, would give it 6 star's if I could