upgraded hard drive, now its freezing

ianflynn · 14-06-2009 7:25pm #1

went from 60gb to 500gb, and while using vidzone or the browser its started freezing the odd time. I did everything properly

suggestions?

nedd · 15-06-2009 7:50am

did you try using vidzone before you upgraded the HDD? could be vidzone and not your new HDD.

ianflynn · 15-06-2009 8:16am

yup, had used vidzone on the old hdd too... just to test it, got the hard drive the next day before i used vidzone properly

NOGMaxpower · 15-06-2009 10:21am

what speed 500gig drive did you get 7400 or 5400??

i've heard the PS3 hates faster drives and causes lock ups due to the heat from the faster drive.

have you tried a complete rebuild of the drive? Format to FAT 32 first and if you're using Vista use a dif formatter.

ianflynn · 15-06-2009 10:25am

its a 5400rpm drive.its seagate, like the original one from the ps3 itself. the playstation formats the drive itself on changeover, so i didnt have to put the drive near a computer

NOGMaxpower · 15-06-2009 10:48am

well that drive should be cool according to other forums although 500g is the max people have gotten to work.

format and rebuild if that fails you might have a duff drive.

ianflynn · 15-06-2009 10:58am

will see if it keeps happening, if it does i'll bring the drive back and go smaller. thanks for the help

NOGMaxpower · 15-06-2009 11:39am

250gig has less issues dude

eddhorse · 15-06-2009 12:15pm

Is it freezing in games as well?

If its just you internet brwoser and vidzone is it possible it is your internet that is the issue?

ianflynn · 15-06-2009 1:15pm

doesnt seem to be freezing in the games... was on cod4 for about an hour yesterday with no issues

Flaccus · 15-06-2009 5:14pm

NOGMaxpower wrote: »

well that drive should be cool according to other forums although 500g is the max people have gotten to work.

format and rebuild if that fails you might have a duff drive.

Doing a full format might solve it. Though it will take ages I'm sure. But worth a shot. You could also plug it into your PC if you have an external usb dongle or caddy and run a diskscan for bad sectors.

500gig is the max people have gotten to work as that's the max size available to date in a 5400rpm or 7200rpm 2.5" sata drive

Luckily I've had no issues with any of the following high capacity 2.5" drives : Samsung 500gig 5400rpm, Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500gig 5400rpm, Seagate 500gig 7200.7 7200rpm (hard to find up until recently, has 16meg cache and only consume 0.05% more power than a 5400rpm drive..crap seek time though).

upgraded hard drive, now its freezing

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