I just bought a scorpio blue 500gb that has advanced format i.e. 4k sectors and it is not working
correctly with my PS3 slim with 4.75 firmware.
I believe it’s due to the advanced format tech used on the drive.
Symptoms are constant corruption, PS3 rebuilds the database often after a cold start.
very slow boot up sometimes, not everytime, but sometimes the drive indicator is solid for a long time and the screen
stays black, sometimes it won’t boot at all.
I put a older scorpio blue 320 from 2008 and all the symptoms went away. The 500gb seems to work just fine in a USB enclosure when I format it on windows.
Is there something special that needs to be done to these advanced format drives for the PS3?
