PlayStation 3 dissected, drive upgraded

Being that the units are already popping up in Japan , it should come as little surprise that the PlayStation 3 has been cracked open and laid bare for all to see (sorry everybody, we pinky swore we wouldn't tear ours apart for your amusement). Even better, however, is the little trick to dismount the drive sled and replace the 20 or 60GB 1.8-inch drive with another more capacious model (as we heard you would be able to). One adventurous modder upped his unit to 120GB; see, maybe that $500 model can be of some use to us after all.

[Via PS2-SCENE and Engadget Japanese, thanks Christofer and Anno]

Read - dissection
Read - drive upgrade

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 12th 2006 4:03AM]

XBOX360
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2005/1210/xbox56.jpg

vs

PLAYSTATION3
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2006/1111/ps3_32.jpg

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 12th 2006 4:26AM]

3.5in drive mod coming to you soon...

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o58/nesalang/ps3hdd.jpg

time for someone to add new Raptor drive to a PS3 and see how it performs then with 10,000rpm and 16mb cache.

[JKooL Posted Mar 24th 2007 8:37PM]

just throw a WD raptor in there and you are good to go... nothing can top 10k rpm on sata (scsi is a different matter..)

~Josh