I have only ne with 120GB PS3 Slim owned I needed drigend a larger hard drive.
Therefore, I can not say anything for operation in a PC and / or laptop.
To install the HDD into a PS3 also does not require formatting the hard drive. Just the old hard drive out, and installing new ones.
Before the current FW download on a USB stick,
I want to say is that you have to format the HDD not predict the FAT32 format manually.
Hard disk on the PS3 operating very quiet, no clacking or other strange noises.
As mentioned, report refers exclusively to my Playstation. 3
And so far no problems.