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.

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!

Just make sure you can get your hands on a Fat32 formatted, external harddrive to backup your current data onto.

@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.

^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.

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.

Holy fuck, $20 for 8GB flash drives. I remember paying $50+ for a 512MB stick.

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.

ROFL @ Artemis!

What a small world you installed yours last night, Mix, glad I don't have RockBand. LOL.

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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@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.