Should you install a solid state hard drive into a PS3?

[BigViper]

I have a ps3 and I have noticed that loading times for things is quite long. I'm wondering if a SSD would improve things?
Regards
Viper

 

[bevo]

I have a ps3 and I have noticed that loading times for things is quite long. I'm wondering if a SSD would improve things?
Regards
Viper

I've seen several tests. For so e games it helps and some games it hurts. When it helped it wasn't by much.

It doesn't seem worth it.

There's a test on this site someone did with GT 5.

 

[ussr]

Usually it helps when you purchase games from psn, then entire game is saved on HDD and for this reason it's worth it. But when you purchase games on Disc then only small amount of data required to run game is installed on HDD. And that part is already prepared be loaded fast as it could be.

 

[Samus]

No. Although it certainly makes more sense today than it did 2/3 years ago since the price of them has come down severely.

 

[sesselpupser]

I have a ps3 and I have noticed that loading times for things is quite long. I'm wondering if a SSD would improve things?
Regards
Viper

If you're asking whether or not it'll help, the answer is yes, it will, if you're playing something that accesses the hard drive a lot.

If you're asking whether or not you should, the answer is no.

My understanding is that the storage device isn't the bottleneck, it's the PS3's data transfer rate. In that case, the speed benefit of an SSD is only in the seek time; a mechanical hard drive has to spin the platter to the right place to find the block containing the data it needs to load, but an SSD can access any memory address directly, so the seek time is consistently fast but the difference is hardly staggering. Once located, though, the data will transfer from storage to the PS3's processors and/or RAM at more or less the same MB per second rate, whatever it is, because a fast hard drive will be able to match the PS3's data rate.

I think it might make a difference in a PS4, though...

 

[Tired Tyres]

Try some youtube comparisons.

 

[PletdeKoe]

Maybe

 

[Flex0r]

An ssd is only marginally faster for most games and ssd's are still more expensive than regular hdd's.
That's the reason why I chose to swap my original 40 GB hdd with another hdd instead of an ssd.

 

[Dean]

I'd also go for a new HDD. The improvement an SSD delivers isn't enough for me to justify the cost.