Reddit reviews WD Blue 1TB Mobile Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 9.5 MM 2.5 Inch - WD10JPVX

Generally, USB 3 drives are SATA drives with a SATA->USB3 bridge chip and an enclosure. You can buy a branded enclosure from one of the big/known companies but you don't have any control over the drive they put in there. Often, they just buy the cheapest drives they can find so one company/box/brand of external drives may not have the same drive under the hood. If you want to guarantee you're using a particular drive brand, you're better off rolling your own. You can buy a 1TB, 2.5" Western Digital "Blue" grade SATA drive on Amazon for $60USD and pop it in an inexpensive ($10) SATA->USB enclosure.

I just picked up one of these to put old spinning disks I had laying around for a friend to use as a Time Machine backup drive. So far so good.

I'm pretty far removed from this business now but I used to for for Oxford Semiconductor a decade ago where we designed bridge chips for direct and network attached storage. We worked with the big kids at Seagate, WD, Samsung, etc. My understanding of meantime between failure rates tends to favor WD for spinning disks as you've discovered. But I'm working with pretty old info. :)

I upgraded my PS3 HDD a few months ago from a 160 GB to a 750 Western Digital 7200 RPM HDD. The space that I currently have left on my HDD is only 360 GB. With PlayStation Plus becoming better and better every month I would suggest using a bigger HDD than a 500 GB.

Here is a link to a 1TB 5400 RPM 2.5inch Hard Drive from Western Digital Total cost is only $78.05 with Prime, if you don't have prime I suggest signing up for a free month or use a school email to make an account, this way you can get Amazon Prime for 6 months for free and half off for up to 4 years after that.

I might be the exception on filling my HDD up because I do own quite a few games myself, I own around 60+ games that are all disk based. Some will argue that they are on disk and will not take up much space on your HDD, but a lot of games in this generation are going to a manual install on your HDD. I can name a few, GTA4, Ni No Kuni, and MGS4. Also Rock Star just announced that GTA5 will have a mandatory 8 GB install on your HDD before you can play the game.

What I am trying to say in short is, if you can spare the extra cash go ahead and purchase a 1TB because with PlayStation Plus you are going to need all the HDD space you can muster up.

I recommend you DO NOT but a solid state hard drive! They are too expensive! What you need is a 2.5" 5400 RPM SATA hard drive. I recently upgraded my PS3 using this guy [link] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C9TEBJQ/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) You can get one on Amazon for under $80. The review that you see in there is from my wife.

I had to do the same thing back in May.

This is the one I got:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00C9TEBJQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_11?qid=1416481656&sr=8-11&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70


So far I've had no problems with it, I recommend it.

I just bought this one for my PS3. Mostly fits your requirements:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C9TEBJQ

I'm going to put the 250 GB drive from the PS3 in this case and use it with my Wii U:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LS31KQG

Which reminds me: I forgot to order a Y cable. Can anyone recommend one?

why not upgrade what's inside the PS4 and use the 500GB as an external?

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Mobile-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00C9TEBJQ/

and just get any cheap enclosure and you can use that as an external for your computer or ps4

Dude what. WD Blue 2.5" 1TB HDD is $45. A 1TB SSD is at LEAST $350.

You need to go into the playsation store (on your ps3 or I prefer on a PC: https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com) and "purchase" the games for $0 and then they'll be available in your account to download whenever your PS+ account is active.

As I understand it, you can have a lapse too, so activate it today, pick up the january titles...then grab the february titles. Then if it lapses before you install a new drive, just re-activate it whenever and you should have access to the titles from both of those months.

Also, you should consider throwing in a 1tb instead. The price difference is less than $20 at this point and you'd be set for life. Here's the one I threw in mine:

WD Blue 1 TB Mobile Hard Drive: 2.5 Inch, 5400 RPM, SATA II, 8 MB Cache - WD10JPVT

$62 It's worked perfectly. Looks like they have a newer model for a buck more so I'd probably go with that one today (looks to be compatible with all models):

Western Digital Bare Drives 1TB WD Blue SATA III 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Notebook Hard Drive WD10JPVX

That's a fine drive, but you need to find the 2.5" model like this one to fit into your laptop. For a bit faster drive, there's the WD Black line

If you can afford and squeeze into an SSD (~$80-90 for 240-250GB), then you will be much better off as they are not as prone to damage from movement. They're also leaps and bounds faster than any mechanical hard drive.

That should be fine. There's a similarly priced 1Tb WD drive, which seems to include 2 year warranty. It's really up to you, as they both should work fine.

http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Mobile-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00C9TEBJQ/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1463951685&sr=8-11&keywords=ps3+hard+drive

This is one of the pest drives you can get for a PS3. I don't see the point of replacing the PSU if it is not broken.

It is not hard. It only goes in one place.

This should work okay.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00C9TEBJQ/ref=dp_ob_neva_mobile

$64 w/prime shipping.

Heres one thatll be good

I have no experience with these, but the reviews are good- this on paper would be better 7200RPM vs 5400

Get the Dell.

Buy another mechanic hard drive to put inside it, like this http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Mobile-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00C9TEBJQ/ref=sr_1_18?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1449292940&sr=1-18&keywords=laptop+hard+drive

Personally depending on your budget, go for the black series for western digital.

But the Dell is the much better product.

This might be possible but is not the best solution because sata is faster than USB. I would just get a 1tb harddrive to replace the internal and just use the passport as a external drive.

http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Mobile-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00C9TEBJQ/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1454100586&sr=8-5&keywords=1tb+hard+drive+2.5

Give this one a try:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C9TEBJQ/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=BZ6LDM3DGC2&coliid=I2EULLBD5UUKGC&psc=1

same brand

If you want to open it up, the cost of the drive. I use WD blues

It probably depends on the model. Seems this one gets quite good reviews.

I think something like [this one] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-WD10JPVX-Laptop-Drive/dp/B00C9TEBJQ/) should work, but i would maybe check with Acer to make sure it is compatible.

I have 1tb WD blue 2.5' almost like new. Pulled from a new laptop shortly after. Retails $60+ tax+shipping. I will do $45 shipped.

• https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Mobile-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00C9TEBJQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1484558525&sr=1-1&keywords=wd+blue+1tb+2.5