Serial ATA / Ultra ATA interfaces?

[KillahSouljah]

Are they the same and will Ultra ATA hard disk drives work in the PS3?

I want to get a 160GB hdd but they only do them with Ultra ATA interfaces.

Serial ATA / 150
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/pro...mentus_5400.2/

Ultra ATA / 100
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/pro...mentus_5400.3/

[str8upnobs]

ony SATA in the PS3 unforunately . howevwer i beleive i read that if its external it doesnt matter, but i may be wrong . check into that before you quote me.

[MonkeyClaw]

Are they the same and will Ultra ATA hard disk drives work in the PS3?

I want to get a 160GB hdd but they only do them with Ultra ATA interfaces.

Serial ATA / 150
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/pro...mentus_5400.2/

Ultra ATA / 100
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/pro...mentus_5400.3/

They are two seperate interfaces...Ultra ATA is also known as IDE, so you will only be able to use a Serial ATA drive inside the PS3! Just get a 120GB SATA drive for now, later when they come out the the perpendicular laptop drives then upgrade to one of those since those will be 200+ GB's.

[AndyD]

They are not the same actually.

Heres some SATA drives for your PS3:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&name=5400+RPM

[that1guy]

i dont think they are the same. it talks about how the ultra has perpendicular recording technology and sata has regular i guess. and since ur putting it in a ps3 i would go with what sony says it supports which is sata. but im not really sure if there are real differences between them just better safe than sorry

[MonkeyClaw]

i dont think they are the same. it talks about how the ultra has perpendicular recording technology and sata has regular i guess. and since ur putting it in a ps3 i would go with what sony says it supports which is sata. but im not really sure if there are real differences between them just better safe than sorry

Perpendicular recording is just the way the bits are arranged on the drive platters:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpendicular_recording

Right now only the Ultra ATA (IDE) laptop drives offer this, but they are suppose to have the SATA drive with this soon as well. When this happens you will start to see very large laptop drives because they can cram a lot more onto the same size platter.

Edit:
Here are a couple sites that offer 160GB SATA 2.5" drives that will work in the PS3:

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...uctCode=100147

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...uctCode=117014
(The Seagate one is 7200RPM so it will run hotter in the system)

[KillahSouljah]

They are two seperate interfaces...Ultra ATA is also known as IDE, so you will only be able to use a Serial ATA drive inside the PS3! Just get a 120GB SATA drive for now, later when they come out the the perpendicular laptop drives then upgrade to one of those since those will be 200+ GB's.

Ok thanks guys, i've just ordered a Serial ATA 120GB HDD.

[KillahSouljah]

Another question, whats most common AAC or MP3, what codec should i import my CD with? i want a codec that works with most hardware i.e. music players.

[str8upnobs]

AAC , i beleive. thats the common audio i have came across on the mpeg4 AVC videos.

[KillahSouljah]

Im going to import most of my CDs to the PS3 with AAC 160kbps codec, is that ok or should i go higher like 192kbps?