Well my PS3 suffered from the blinking red light after playing games, it only does it on some though, like MGS4, LBP, COD5 and COD4 and it takes less the 5 minutes to cut out, but it will play some just fine for hours, like R2, Fallout 3 and AC, Which the manual states the red light flashing mean that it is over heating,

So I called sony and had it warrentied. Which was a pleasent experence. I had a box the next day and it was back in 5 days. Any ways when i got it back I read the report paper and it said it was perfectly fine, Well long story short is that it still does it. Only thing is that it is now out of warranty, It expired while it was at Sony. I'm not sure what to do, I dont want to pay for repairs since they didn't fix it the first time.

We'll my ps3 seems to have an issue

I pop in a blu-ray video, play perfectly for 10 mins and them bam! shuts off adn the system light blinks red, It doesn't seem to do it playing games, but ive only played FF12 for a while and no isses, and overheating seems out of the question, since when if first did it it was out in theopen with nothing around, adn after it did it once i opened the window and put it right agaisnt the screen, and I live in canada, its not warm out yet, Any ideas? I bought it December 2007. so Its still under warranty.

;

I remeber reading that the rpm speed of the drive doesnt help load times its the cache on the drive, the more it has liek 16mb the faster.   But im personly goin to get a 750 Gb 3.5 drive for my ps3 and hook it up to it buy doin this,

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GJrLMZw0Jp4

 I plan on running linux and  never having to upgrade my drive.