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OK let's see my momma named me Steve, but you would know me better as SantanaClaus89, or my PSN name, Moosehole. I'm 27 years old and reside in Virginia, about 20 minutes outside of Washington, D.C. Outside of games, I'm a huge sports fan who is die-hard for all my local teams (Redskins, Wizards, Nationals, Capitals).
I've had many different consoles throughout my 20 years of gaming, but I currently own a PS3, PSP-3000, PS2, SNES, Genesis, and NES.
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OK So I have a 40GB PS3 and with the growing trend of 3-5GB mandatory installs these days this was inevitable. I've had my PS3 for 4 months now and I've bought 14 games (not including downloadable titles) and I was already down to 7.8GB. After discovering the size of Metal Gear Solid 4's mandatory install I knew it was time for an upgrade. So I did a little research and found and extremely handy guide over on the PlayStation.com forums to walk me through it step by step it even gives a list of compatable HDD's. 
I settled on this Hitachi 250GB HDD which I found at Best Buy for $130, which I feel is a pretty good deal. Anyway, I had heard it wasn't too difficult to swap the HDD yourself, but I must say I was pleasently suprised with how easy it actually was. I was done in literally 10 minutes and after formatting the HDD I was left with a whopping 234GB. YAYZ! Only thing that sucks is I don't have an external HDD to transfer all my game installs and whatnot so I transferred my game saves with a thumb drive, but now I'm sitting here installing everything and downloading patches and PSN games all over again. BLAH....... Now I need to buy a PS Eye and I'll be set.
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Living the dream since March 16, 2006
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Also, welcome to the 250 gig club.
320GB gives 298GB after formatting if anyone want to know, and should keep most safe until the 1TB laptop drives roll around.
I think Sony made a good choice to do it like this (I´m not talking about the installs). They leave it upto us to choose whatever we want to put into the sexy black box.
Till then I don't really need to. (unless they keep making mandatory installs). But dual platform games are usually better for the 360, so my PS3 library is still kind of small atm. Maybe things will change after more better exclusives come out. who knows.