When going in to buy a PS3 I thought I had all the information and new what sort of informed choice I was making by purchasing a 20gig PS3 instead of a 60gig one. I didn't need wireless, I didn't need the card slots, and I certainly didn't need an extra 40gig space (I'm a deleter, I delete things A LOT).
Everything pointed to and everyone said that the 20gig PS3 was NOT the "retard" pack and would play games just as well as the 60gig PS3 and play Blu-ray films just as well too.
But it was a lie. The 20gig is as bad as the X360 core pack IMO. Why? Because the harddrive in the 20gig is SO ****ING SLOW.
Ok, I can live with the fact that Gripshift goes from "hey the load times are a little long" to borderline unplayable when using a 20gig instead of 60gig drive, but I CANNOT LIVE WITH VF5 LOAD TIMES BETWEEN EVERY MATCH. Sure they're only about 4-5 seconds with the 20gig (compared to probably 1-2 seconds with 60gig), but that's twice as long as VF4 loadtimes on PS2 and when you're going to be playing 1,000s of matches over the next year everytime those seconds add up to far too much for me to put up with.
Obviously the main problem at hand is that none of the developers realize this difference between the 60gig & 20gig speed and just use their 60gig speed dev kits and assume the game will play identically for everyone. Right now Gripshift & VF5 (the latter because it installs the entire game to the hard drive on runs off the HDD) are the only two that have VERY noticable differences in loading and get hurt BADLY with a 20gig, but that's because the PS3 has 'barely' been out. Over the next 5-10 years there will probably be TONS of games that are bogged down with long loadtimes or performance issues when using a 20gig hard drive. So to me, that's identical to the X360 core where games will have longer load times or perform worse on an X360 without a harddrive.
So the only solution for us 20gig people is that we NEED to replace the hard drive. So tonight or tomorrow I'm going to replace my hard drive so that I can enjoy playing VF5 with my friends without every load screen letting us have a conversation between matches.
With a budget of maybe $100-$150, what is the FASTEST PS3 size/compliant hard drive I can get? I don't care how big it is. 40gigs is fine, 60gigs is fine, etc...like I said I tend to delete stuff I'm not using. But I just want something FAST. I want no load times in my VF. So please recommend me a hard drive as fast, or even faster than the one that comes in the 60gig PS3 please. I'll either order it from Newegg or drive to the nearby CompUSA after work and buy it and install it ASAP.
Thanks,
Everything pointed to and everyone said that the 20gig PS3 was NOT the "retard" pack and would play games just as well as the 60gig PS3 and play Blu-ray films just as well too.
But it was a lie. The 20gig is as bad as the X360 core pack IMO. Why? Because the harddrive in the 20gig is SO ****ING SLOW.
Ok, I can live with the fact that Gripshift goes from "hey the load times are a little long" to borderline unplayable when using a 20gig instead of 60gig drive, but I CANNOT LIVE WITH VF5 LOAD TIMES BETWEEN EVERY MATCH. Sure they're only about 4-5 seconds with the 20gig (compared to probably 1-2 seconds with 60gig), but that's twice as long as VF4 loadtimes on PS2 and when you're going to be playing 1,000s of matches over the next year everytime those seconds add up to far too much for me to put up with.
Obviously the main problem at hand is that none of the developers realize this difference between the 60gig & 20gig speed and just use their 60gig speed dev kits and assume the game will play identically for everyone. Right now Gripshift & VF5 (the latter because it installs the entire game to the hard drive on runs off the HDD) are the only two that have VERY noticable differences in loading and get hurt BADLY with a 20gig, but that's because the PS3 has 'barely' been out. Over the next 5-10 years there will probably be TONS of games that are bogged down with long loadtimes or performance issues when using a 20gig hard drive. So to me, that's identical to the X360 core where games will have longer load times or perform worse on an X360 without a harddrive.
So the only solution for us 20gig people is that we NEED to replace the hard drive. So tonight or tomorrow I'm going to replace my hard drive so that I can enjoy playing VF5 with my friends without every load screen letting us have a conversation between matches.
With a budget of maybe $100-$150, what is the FASTEST PS3 size/compliant hard drive I can get? I don't care how big it is. 40gigs is fine, 60gigs is fine, etc...like I said I tend to delete stuff I'm not using. But I just want something FAST. I want no load times in my VF. So please recommend me a hard drive as fast, or even faster than the one that comes in the 60gig PS3 please. I'll either order it from Newegg or drive to the nearby CompUSA after work and buy it and install it ASAP.
Thanks,
