New Hard Drive For Your PS3? Say Good Bye To Your Old One

[F9zDark]

Had this person:

-Read the Instruction Manual

And

-Did a search at the Official PS3 Boards

He would have found that his method does not work.

Should have invested in a USB Hard-drive enclosure or USB Hard-drive prior to doing this.

[Shrygue]

I saw a 320GB 2.50 inch sata hard drive not too long ago, I wouldn't mind having that. 60GB is probably not enough if those who would use the console to store and playback/view videos, audio and phohographs, along with game demos/add ons. Just I'll wait untill the price goes down on that one.

Bit of a shame that one you stick in the new one, the old drive requires a reformat to be used again. Best to export all saved infomation on thee old disk to an external one before upgrading

[F9zDark]

what? i have two sixty gigs one for games and the other for media. they both work fine. after i formatted the new one i put the old one back in with out any problems.

The problem must be with the space, if you format a 60gb HDD to use with the system, the PS3 expects a 60gb to be there; so swapping between 2 60gb HDDs should work.

However, his PS3 expected a 250gb HDD, so when he swapped it with a 60gb the PS3 had a brain fart.

[Triv1um]

Had this person:

This person is actually Wrag.

So swapping 2 60's works?

Because i wouldnt mind doing that.

Also, if you had someone else 60 with loads of psn games on, will you be able to play them? I'm guessing not, but do you know?

[F9zDark]

This person is actually Wrag.

So swapping 2 60's works?

Because i wouldnt mind doing that.

Also, if you had someone else 60 with loads of psn games on, will you be able to play them? I'm guessing not, but do you know?

That is an assumption on my part since a member said it did work without a hitch. If you plan on updating, get an HDD enclosure and use a spare drive you have lying around to "be on the safe side".

It makes sense too if you think about it. Chances are, when the HDD is formatted to be used on the PS3, it stores information on the drive's specs in the flash to make it work consistently (a sort of "driver" for instance). Theoretically, so long as the drive coming out matches the drive going in, the "drivers" won't need to be updated.

Again, its just an assumption on my part. I have got an 8gb memory stick so I can backup my saves to that should I ever get a new drive. But chances are, I'd get an external before I'd get an internal, because I'd be too lazy to have to recopy all that music back to my PS3.

For media like music and movies, External would be the better way to go anyhow; you can then at least move that drive to your computer to copy music and movies to and move it back when its done or take that with you should you want that space on a laptop or on another system.