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Toshiba Making PS3 Compatible 640GB HDD

September 18th, 2009 / / News
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Toshiba has recently revealed that they are creating a hard drive that has a higher maximum areal density, allowing 160GB on a single side of a platter, rather than the usual 125GB, allowing 640GB of space to fit onto 2 data platters, up from the original 500GB. HDDs will be made available some time between October and December this year. The part number to watch out for will be M6465GSX.

Currently, the PlayStation 3 can only support hard drives upto 500GB, though the 2.5″ SATA drives are available up to 1TB though these drive are slightly larger than the HDD bay on the PlayStation 3. The reason the high-capacity HDDs are also physically larger is because they contain a third disc, or platter, holding the extra data.  The practical limit for data storage on a single side of one platter has been around 125GB for a while now, with 500GB drives using both sides of two platters.

[Via: TheSixthAxis]

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8 comments on “Toshiba Making PS3 Compatible 640GB HDD”

  1. michaelmanu says:
    September 18th, 2009 at 10:18 AM

    my screws wont budge to remove my original hd so no chance im buyin 1 of these

    Reply
  2. Samir Ablahad says:
    September 18th, 2009 at 11:33 AM

    me to

    Reply
  3. kite says:
    September 18th, 2009 at 2:23 PM

    Sounds coo, not needed for me just get – im happy streaming all my vids form my comp!

    Reply
  4. John Dogbegah says:
    September 18th, 2009 at 8:30 PM

    thats too much if i were to get one i would get a $250

    Reply
  5. weber134 says:
    September 18th, 2009 at 10:38 PM

    *Yaw hits floor* WANT ONE NOW!!

    Reply
  6. DaLi says:
    September 19th, 2009 at 7:16 AM

    if anyone notices something the bigger your hd is the more space that the ps3 system will eat of it isn’t it weird ? :S

    Reply
  7. yash321 says:
    September 19th, 2009 at 11:16 AM

    great news i want too change my ps3 hdd

    Reply
  8. Pranil says:
    September 21st, 2009 at 9:12 AM

    Thanks Toshiba.

    Reply

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