What hard drive works best with the PS3?

[CEEDZ13]

My PS3 is about to be full, and I am getting the Green Day game exported and I don't want to have to delete stuff. By best I mean simple to hook up and whatever.

[FloodOne]

All HDDs are simple to hook up.

Use a 2.5" SATA drive, 5400 RPM.

Use whatever size you want, I bought a 500gb for mine and it works great.

[Mega-Tallica]

Just don't get a 7200RPM HDD, they burn out the system.

[Der_Lex]

And make sure you get or borrow a decent sized portable HDD (formatted to FAT 32 format, which can be done on your PC) for a full system backup. It's the only way in which you can port your RB data over.

The whole process is rather easy, and there's plenty of guides for it online, for example here.

[Doom878]

I bought a Western Digital 2.5" 320GB hard drive off Amazon for $50 shipped. Not a bad price but tons of reviews. I think 320 is the best bang for the buck as smaller hard drives were only a few dollars less. The consensus for HDD's are WD, Seagate, and Hitachi.

[skyttskytt]

This has a lot of information too, in the first couple posts of the thread. You'll have to highlight some of it to be able to read it, as the forum's appearance has changed from a black background to a white background since that thread started. The second post has a lot of testing done with various drives, and links to drives that have been used by people in the thread. I'm currently using the very last one in the 500 gb 5400 rpm section (the WD Scorpion Blue).