Ben-DutkaIt's always nice to have options.
With the Gran Turismo 5 launch a little more than two months away, people have been asking questions concerning the required amount of hard drive space. Series guru Kazunori Yamauchi has responded to those questions on his personal Twitter page (as noted by Andriasang ), and he has given us the lowdown: to actually run the game, you only need 256MB of space, but if you want to eliminate much of the load times, he recommends performing the hard drive install…which will eat up 10GB of space. Yamauchi said that by doing this, one would insure a "smooth" experience, so take from that what you will. At least it's good to know we're beyond the early days of the PS3 when a 60GB hard drive was the biggest one available, and there was even a 20GB option. These days, the default machine has a 120GB HDD and soon, that system will be replaced by the new default, which will sport a 160GB drive. Then, there's the big option: the upcoming $399 PS3 that has a 320GB HDD.
…yeah, the console has come a long way since 2006. But then again, we've been waiting on GT5 since about that time.
Related Game(s): Gran Turismo 5
No problem I upgraded to 500GB about a month after I bought my 80GB machine. Gentlemen Start Your Engines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I should probably get a new hard drive, anyone notice the difference between a 7200 rpm and a 5400 rpm drive?
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The speed difference is very small, choose a drive with as large a cache as you can, it will help with speed. 7200rpm drives do put out more heat, so you generally want to get a 5400 rpm drive. However, the easiest way to judge it is the power consumption numbers. When comparing drives for use in a laptop or PS3 you want the drive that uses the least power that otherwise matches your capacity and quality criteria. Less power = less heat. Lower rpm = less heat. Less heat = good. Be careful not to get a drive that can automatically enter it's own power saving sleep mode or you may find that if the drive enters sleep mode your game(s) will stutter while the drive spins back up.
Thanks guys
I'll install it, but god damn do i need a new hdd. this old 40gb aint cuttin it!
I don't get why so many people don't just upgrade their damn hard drives when they buy a PS3 in the first place, it saves having to go through the trouble later on. I know this from personal experience and I didn't procrastinate when I bought my 160GB PS3 last week, (P.S. Ben, the 160GB PS3s are already the default system now, lol), and it's a solid 500GB now. My next slim will be at least 1TB, once the prices go down and the standard tech specs are a little improved.
@ shadowpal2, the 320GB Gran Turismo 5 bundle is only available in Japan, so unless you live there or want to spend an absurd amount for imorting it, then don't hold your breath.
@TheHighlander, no offense, but the heat output difference between 5400rpm and 7200rpm is negligible, a study only found a 2-3 degree fahrenheit difference. So I respectfully disagree and say go with the 7200rpm if you can because it will drastically improve load times.
I love when games have optional installs, that way people who want to/have space on their HD can take that tiny bit of extra time to get better performance and load times when actually playing the game! I wish more games did that.