Anyone ever swap PS3 drive?

[the7k]

I've done it at least three times.

Easy as pie. Seriously, it's only slightly more difficult than changing the hard-drive on an Xbox 360. 5 minutes, max.

[Breetai]

Good luck. And be careful, when I tried to do it, I ended up ripping the ribbon cable and turning my launch model PS3 into a launch model brick.

What? How did you manage that? It's just a straight drive swap.

[wclem]

I bought my system used so no manual. Sounds very easy, now I need to decide on a drive LOL.

[Niode]

It hasn't been mentioned yet but the HDD must be a laptop style 2.5" SATA drive. It doesn't matter if it's a SATA II or I because as 7k mentioned you can set the jumper on the drive to be in SATA I mode. The biggest capacity currently available SATA 2.5" drive is 1TB and is the Western Digital Scorpio Blue. It's very expensive and hard to find though.

[Josh]

Good luck. And be careful, when I tried to do it, I ended up ripping the ribbon cable and turning my launch model PS3 into a launch model brick.

What? How did you manage that? It's just a straight drive swap.

EDIT: I JUST now realized we were talking about the Hard Drive, and not the Blu-Ray Drive. EPIC N00B Mistake, sorry for doing that and making myself look like an idiot. Hard Drive is easy to install and re-install. Just a screwdriver and you're good to go, but I would back up my memory on an external HDD first.

There, n00b mistake hopefully fixed. Now I feel like an idiot.

Chock it all up to reading too fast.