An SSD drive, see, I don't mind the quest bugs, I MIND THE LAG. I saw my friend playing Skyrim on his PS3 when I went to his house, and I only noticed lag when there was like 10 bandits all engaged in combat with him. Other than that, the game is pretty much flawless compared to my HDD Drive, I have 38 GB left on mine. How much would it cost to buy an SSD Drive that's compatible with PS3? I need at least 50 GB Minimum! The reason I'm posting this here is because it's FOR SKYRIM!!!

I have btw a SSD drive, but because PS3 has an sata150 controller the best thing you will get is 150MB/sec write/read speeds...
(and less that 0.1 msec access time)

That is a lot more that a conventional HDD drive can offer... (from 60MB/sec (in layer), to 30MB/sec to outer layer of the plate. (max)
Beside the heating problems if you buy a 7200rpm drive.

So an SSD drive is a good idea upgrading your PS3 console.

See here please: http://www.hardcoeware.net/ssd-on-ps3-performance-guide/

The Good

Reliability
Hard disk failures happen all the time. A lot of stories have been told about how data was lost and what agony it was to retrieve it.
Why do HDDs fail? Because of wear and tear – after all, they have mechanical components that can break, just like a car.

A flash-based SSD doesn’t have that issue. It has no moving parts, therefore there is no wear and tear. Having no mechanical parts make SSDs immune to physical vibration, shock, and extreme temperatures. For example, nothing will happen to an SSD if you drop it. It is their ability to work in extreme conditions.

(there are no moving parts, no spinning platter, no actuator arm, no motor, no nothing – just a bank of memory chips – this means that there is a much higher degree of mechanical reliability.)

Another nice advantage is because there is no spinning motor, there is no noise generated by the solid state drive.

In addition,The fragmentation has very little impact on a solid state drive because of the very constant seek time performance of this type of drives. Solid state drives are also able to withstand shock and temperature extremes better than a mechanical drive, an important consideration if ever dropped.

Speed
Speed is the main advantage of a solid-state drive. SSDs offer blazing-fast performance being 100 times faster than HDDs.

This incredible speed difference is due to a much shorter access time (less than a millisecond for an SSD compared to 17 - 18ms).

If you want a big performance gain, switch to an SSD.

The Bad

Price and Size...

Flash memory quite simply has a limited number of times that information can be written to a location (a bit).

Most consumer drives on the market today can handle about 10,000 writes to a bit. Once that spot is used up, it can never be used again. The good news is that there are a variety of techniques that engineers have developed to help combat this issue.

So if you don't write and erase to many times as normally you have nothing to worry about your SSD drive.

A good consumer drive will last maybe until 8 years, and the more proffesional ones like the Intel series will last about 12 years...

Examples:
1. Samsung 840 series drive: 120GB (2,5 " 6GBbit/sec SATA III, ) for less than 100 Euros. (it's a good example)

2. Corsair Force series GS 128 GB (same specs as above) for about 125 Euros.

3. OCZ Agility AGT3 25SAT3-12 120 GB for about 130 Euros (the drive that i use.... )

4. Very good drive: Intel 330 SSD SC2CT 180A3K5 180GB for about 175 Euros.

All Drives have 3 years Warranty...

ENJOY...