You couldn't be more wrong...
This is an original 60 GB. As in the model made before they quit making the PS3s backwards compatible. (all the new ones, any non 60 GB old ones)
Also they didn't quit making them backwards compatible because they had "problems", Sony simply did it to make / save money while maintaining and or lowering the prices on their system.
I stood in-line at Wal-Mart in Eagan for around 3 days for this bad boy. They only had 2 60 GB and my buddy got the other one. Then they had like 18 40 GB but those suck hehe.