My PS3 fat is still running smoothly after all these years. Almost 3 years...if I'm not mistaken.

Mine is a fatty @ 80GB (swapped to 500GB) and it's still working till now. The only problem I encountered thus far is:

System hang (screen freezes): 3 times (over a period of 3 years, if I'm not mistaken) which is not a major problem.

This post has been edited by Joey Christensen: Feb 17 2011, 10:34 AM

What do you mean "rebuild your database"?

Is that the HDD access indicator?

Let's cook it over time! I've been left my PS3 (fat 80GB, upgraded to 500GB of HDD) and it's been running over 18 hours and will continue to cook it until it's time to serve the dish.

Expected to run 27 hours continuously until tonight. Hope I won't bring any harm to my PS3 system which is of 2 years++ (near to 3 years) if I'm not mistaken.

I had to kill that PS3...in a day or two that is. It's not in an air conditioned room. I've switched on the ceiling fan on 2 out of 5 speed of fan. I'm not sure if that helps for cooling purpose. I switched off the LCD TV and the only thing running is my PS3 doing some downloading stuff.

I slept at 3am and I was awake at 6am, the PS3 fan is still silent. I woke up at about 7.58am and the machine is still running. The fan didn't kick up its speed, still silently doing the downloading quietly. I'm not sure how it turns out when I reach home later today. I'll report on the fan noise tomorrow.

Maybe I'll snap some pictures or maybe a video with my camera.

So far what I can see is the green diode: WiFi and orange diode: HDD access blinking away. Hmm...the fan kicks in when there's a Bluray inserted in the slot? I'm not sure about it but I would like to see how it goes after I get home from work later today.

I didn't write the word "slim" so it's understood it's the fat version. Anyway, it's been stretching from Gran Turismo 5 to Winning Eleven 2011 to FIFA 2011 to NFS:Hot Pursuit to...as of today, Metal Gear Solid 4. Patch after patch, DLC after DLC, trailer after trailer, so on and so forth. Let's see what else I have to feed into my PS3. It's 30 hours++ and nothing so far.

Working very late these few days and will have an off day on Tuesday, 30th August 2011. Hope I can find some time to upload some pictures taken.

Congratulations! My PS3 had three beeps of death earlier this month. I could still fire it up and managed to transfer all the data by using the Ethernet cable. Thank God! 4 hours++ was wasted for transferring approximately 250GB data.

I'm quite happy that the fat is dead...I'm not sure why but that's what I felt. Anyways, here's some pictures that I took when I transferred everything via Ethernet cable. A few presses of buttons here and there and...Hey! Hey! Hey! It's a success!

Notice the yellow coloured Ethernet cable?







4 hours 40 minutes...Zzzz.


This post has been edited by Joey Christensen: Jan 18 2012, 02:20 PM

I bought the Slim after my fat buddy was sick. Actually the unit (original) can still be fired up. Some simple games, Bluray movies, songs, videos are playable on the fat buddy but when it comes to heavy power munching games, it'll beep three times and it automatically shuts down. If I'm not mistaken...2 years++ (nearing to 3 years).

It's not the latest picture...Here's the latest picture that I took. Bought a few games and a cooler pad. Bought an Urban Camoflage wireless controller yesterday and it was not included in the pictures below. LOLZ! Too many new things these couple of days.

Erm...That's a serious allegation that you have in your thought there, mate. I had mine "beep, beep, beep" after I've downloaded patch 2.00 for Gran Turismo 5. I think Polyphony Digital made my fat buddy sick. LOLZ!

Last I heard was about RM200.

The possibility of PS4 to be announced on the forth quarter of 2012 is likely. However, the release of the hardware itself is highly unlikely or near to impossible. Give it a year or two and PS4 would be materialised. That's how I see it.

For my fat buddy, there's no notification about overheating or anything. It beeps three times and automatically shut down by itself. My buddy is pretty sick and he can only play songs, video, light gaming (for gaming that uses the Bluray disc...this depends on luck).

My PS2 (not the slim version) still working and it's almost 10 years of age. My PS3 (not the slim version) is on dying stage and it's almost 3 years of age. These days, electronics material are getting...Sigh.