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Out of curiosity, what do you put on your drive?
Also, how do you go about swapping the data? I've not even considered upping the size of mine, but I've wondered how I'd go about doing it.
And this is a big problem I have with the ps3. I think a 40 gig ps3 should last forever? I've had a 20 gig ps3 and I still have my 20 gig 360. And just thought of having to pay more money to upgrade the hard drive pisses me off. I'm glad they made it easy to do....but it just ticks me off that they almost force you into buying another hard drive.
The only thing painless about the PS3 HD switch is physically replacing it. As far as data goes, you'll have to back up your data using the backup utility first. Use a large external HD that's formatted with FAT. After you replace it, you'll have to do a full format with the HD, which (depending on size) can take a long time to format (9 hours with my 150GB!). Then you restore all your old info and viola, you're done!
I've got easily five movies downloaded from the PSN video store, a gig each, if not more. Trying for my complete music library on it(700+ songs) photos and a just a lot of games. Sure, I'll never need 250 GB's but when its only $10 difference between a 160 GB and a 250 GB, I decided to go with that. I also imagine sometime that most all AAA titles will feature mandatory installs, so I see myself running out of space soon.
Just make sure you can get your hands on a Fat32 formatted, external harddrive to backup your current data onto.
Is just FAT, the same thing as FAT32?
@SEVINK
I too also have my original Xbox 20 gig. But the only reason why I still have it is because I know the thing is small and upgrading it won't be any cheaper so I choose not to DL anything. Sony doesn't really require you to buy anything and game installs can be deleted once you beat the game. So therefore in theory, you could keep you 20 gig HD intact but pretty much the PS3 is our "Dark Knight" if you will and can take whatever data you wish to cram it with.
Yeah, I'm getting ready to make the switch myself. Moving the data from one drive to another shouldn't be hard as I already have a 250 gb external hooked up to it via usb. But when I found out you couldnt move movies you buy to the external drive, I decided it was time to get a new internal. Let us know how the switch goes.
^Yep.
When I did the formatting of my HD, I only saved my Uncharted and Ratchet gamesaves. All the demo's, videos, full games? I re-downloaded them.
In hindsight, I should have backed them to my external HD, cos that was a pain to do.
Itchy, was that yes reffering to my question?
here is what i used to back up what i had left(saves downloadable games etc.) after i deleted forced installs i was just under 8gigs. and the hdd that i used to replace the 60 gig here no problems what so ever yet.
Ah, looks like were using the same one DarkTravesty, glad to hear it works for you.
Holy fuck, $20 for 8GB flash drives. I remember paying $50+ for a 512MB stick.
Seriously, I think it was like $80 for 512!
I seriously just did this last night and I bought the EXACT same HDD as the one you listed (but $10 more from NCIX as I'm in Canada...)
I backed up my PS3 to my external HDD drive and tansfered all my saves to the external drive (I had to partition a section as Fat32 which was about 30 gigs on my external HDD) if you have a 1-2gig USB data stick you can use that to put your saves on as no matter what you will have to Dl purchased games again and install all games again....
The old HDD was a piece of pie to get out and the HDD in the PS3 was the same HDD (Seagate momentus) just a 60 rather than a 250gig.
It's pretty easy to do but the case that covers the HDD was a BITCH to take off and I stripped one of my screws as they were freaking tight, I had to use a pair of pliars to crack the screw so I could get it off.
Other than that everything went smooth as butter.
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OH, if you have a RockBand save on your PS# be prepared to get PISSED THE FUCK OFF as you CAN NOT transfer the save over to the USB drive!!!!! There is something in place that does not allow it!
After that I do not think I will be playing any more RB to get all my crap back, I was not happy about that.
Since it looks like forced installs are here to stay it's probably a good idea to upgrade your harddrive early on.
ROFL @ Artemis!
What a small world you installed yours last night, Mix, glad I don't have RockBand. LOL.
i install my new 250 gig tomorrow when linux finally gets here. gotta format it twice so might as well do it all in one day.
It was interesting to say the least and I'm glad I did it early before I had too much stuff going on as re-downloading a couple games wasn't very fun :)
My PSN is: Saffron
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@QRAZE:what linux????
@sevink: you are no more required to get a larger hard drive on the ps3 than the 360. People do it more often on the PS3 though because it's cheap and easy. Both systems can stream AV and Photos from computers, and on the PS3 you can attach an external hard drive in case you don't want to upgrade. If anythings being forced it's Microsoft forcing it's users to buy their proprietary crap.
@MIX
Now that's interesting... Normally it's the Wii that locks the saves to your internal memory, but this time around you CAN copy Wii Rock Band saves to the SD card, but not PS3 saves.