PS3 Loading up HDDs

[Skippyz]

Ive been keeping my consoles with lots of space to spare (500gb models) ,

Is there anything stopping me from filling up the HDD with games such as slowing down the system, or running harder/hotter?

 

[junaid]

Dude your question is so confusing? What exactly are you asking?

 

[benfrost94]

Ive been keeping my consoles with lots of space to spare (500gb models) ,

Is there anything stopping me from filling up the HDD with games such as slowing down the system, or running harder/hotter?

You mean will the PS3 slow down if you fill up all the free space in it

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[pinky]

not that I know of. content on the hdd is indexed, so the full hdd is never read. this is supposed to accelerate read speeds. the 360 on the other hand reads the entire hdd, so looking at what's installed on a 1TB hdd can take a couple of minutes.

btw, the indexer is tiny. for about 5,000 installs, it's only between 10-20MBs or so.

 

[Agoni212]

Nothing can stop u from filling it, but yea it can work slower, if u fill 500 gb.

 

[pinky]

I know of no chart with this information. however, psdevwiki has a chart on rpm's with hdds and whether or not that makes a difference. iirc, what it shows is that a higher rpm hdd may have slightly faster load times than a lower rpm one, but the difference is marginal. I believe the same is true of an ssd or sshd.

 

[sandungas]

I think there is no problem in filling up hdd capacity, i did read about PS3 becoming laggy when the hdd is very filled but im not so sure why that users had problems, maybe they had the data very fragmented

 

[C7TJFVB7-CAZ]

if u fill up your HDD itz just like if your would do that on PC so your have to delete something else lolz >)

 

[pinky]

going back to my original analogy - with the 360, it's just drag-and-drop essentially. even games with built in dlc such as goty versions - most of the time you can extract the dlc from it, then drop it into the content folder.. the ps3, however, requires actual installs since content is indexed. I think the 3ds and wii u do this as well, so you can't drag-and-drop with those two systems. technically, you can with the ps3 if you rebuild the database afterwards.

 

[sandungas]

I have a PS3 with a 320gb hdd, and i use to copy all games in ISO format to internall hdd (years ago), and has been a couple of times where i did filled the hdd "up to the border", lol
I dont remember how many free space i had... but it was the kind of thing i was not able to copy any other game and not able to make any big "gamedata" installation
And the PS3 was working normally, no lag, and no problems

But is needed to mention that i use to run that "restore filesystem" option from recovery menu very frequently (after every couple of crashes), so probably my hdd did not have much fragmentation

 

[C7TJFVB7-CAZ]

u might get a bigger hdd, but it requires a NAND based console so u can pu in HDDs like craze bcoz u wont need to formate everytime so itz like on the 360 thatz all i can say for that to prevent shit like that >)