I have heard conflicting things on upgrades for drives. Some saying you can only use specifically a 5400rpm hard drive, others saying they upgraded to a SSD no problem. Any use an Intel 520 on PS3?

I'm gonna use this basically for Skyrim only as I'm getting a PS4 soon, lol. My questions are...............

Have you upgraded to SSD?

Any issues?

How does Skyrim play? Was there an improvement, or none at all?

I don't know about a PS3 specifically, but in general with a SSD load times will be much faster. Other performance will be unaffected.

What kind of SSD did you use?

I have a Samsung 840 EVO for my PC.

My mistake, I thought you were saying you played other games for ps3, just not skyrim. Oh well, I will find out in a couple days. Just ordered one for ps3.

I have played SKYRIM with an SSD drive. But it's sort of a mixed bag situation.

I have try it one two different SSD drives. One was a OCZ Agility 3 and the second one a Samsung 840 (not Evo)

First of all, you must realize, the PS3 uses an SATA-150 controller. So even a SSD cant go faster than 1,5Gbps or 150MB/s.

Secondly, TRIM is not supported. That hurts a SSD drive. After lots of writing and erasing your SSD performance will degrade, and yours SSD lifespan will suffer.

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So, after all this, how performs a SSD on a PS3 ???

With the OCZ Agility 3, it was the first time i could complete the whole main quest + side-quests without any hassle, and i would say without any particular lag problems, even after my save files exceeded the 14MB mark. !!!

But that wasn't the case with the Samsung 840. After 10 minutes only, i had stuttering and ugly screen tearing. !!! (even with an convectional HDD i never encountered screen tearing !!!)

So actually it's pure luck if Skyrim will run better or not with an SSD drive.

However, i wish you the best...Have fun. !!!

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Only for the history: I use both of those SSD drives on my RIG, for 3 years now. Working perfectly fine. (All both are 120GB SSD drives)

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Not to forget: An SSD drive eliminated almost the screen tearing problems with "Rage", but that wasn't the case with Mass effect 2 !!!

That was the reason why i changed it with an WD Black series 750GB drive.