A long while ago a put a large replacement HDD in my PS3 so I could play with Ubuntu. No problems there. I've not used Ubuntu for some time, so I decide to reformat the disc, giving me the whole thing for PS3 storage.
That all goes ok.
So then I start playing some games and notice a significant drop in performace when a game is trying to load something off the hard disc, or save. It's the same RPM as the original HDD that was in there and I had no problems of this nature when there was a partition in place.
Out of curiousity I re-partition the disc and lo and behold everything is back to normal.
What on earth should I do? I've tried the PS3 reformat a few times and the same thing keeps happening. Is it just a Hard Disc that is going duff?