PS3 hard drive

[the gamer that is bad]

Dose the ps3 need any specific hard drive or could I use a generic ssd and a 3.5” adapter

[Vishera]

You can use any 2,5" drive.

[flibberdipper]

Any 2.5" SATA drive that's 20GB or larger should work fine.

[Kilrah]

Apparently it supports up to 9.5mm thick drives and needs <=1.5GB.

[the gamer that is bad]

8 hours ago, Communist_Empire said:

If I remember correctly, the OG Fat and Slim PS3's only support SATA II which is 3GB/s. Then the super slim supports up to SATA III which is 6GB/s. Correct me if I'm wrong. 

 

It's up to you if you put an SSD in your system, as it varies from title to title. Regarding load times. 

The ssd is only for more storage without adding moving parts 

[B16CXHatch]

Yeah, pretty much any 2.5" SATA drive with a 9.5mm or 7mm Z-height, with I believe a 1.5TB size limit. I've heard of people getting 2TB to work but it only reads 1.5TB.

 

I have a Samsung 850 Evo 500GB in one of my Slims (it's also had an 840 Evo 250GB) and a T-Force Vulcan 250GB in my other one (it's also had an Intel 545S 128GB).