Those who have found that 80 gigs is simply not enough to house all of those PlayStation Network games and hentai videos know the deal -- it's simple to replace the PlayStation 3's hard drive.
Surprisingly, Sony seem to be all for the system modification. In one of the latest posts on their official blog, Sony's "Social Media Manager" Jeff Rubenstein links to a CNET Asia tutorial on the process. He even gets a little cheap shot against the "competition" in.
"Fortunately, the PS3 doesn't require some hard-to-find proprietary HDD," he writes.
Ooooh, burn! Who's had success with upgrading their PS3 HDDs, and on a scale of "I can't figure out how to upgrade my RAM" to "I build rocket ships in my spare time," how hard was it?
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10:19 PM on 12.29.2007
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"Unless I ever get into animal porn and I become so obsessive that I need to store all of it on the hard drive of the PS3."
Hmmm, I don't have a PS3, but it appears you have found a suitable solution for keeping all my animal porn off my main desktop, yet still readily accessible.
My hat is off to you good sir.
I believe I will get the largest stock GB'ed BS3 model whenever my BS3 craps out. Unless they make another game like Ratchet & Clank, that tells me I don't have enough HDD space again!
I'm not into beastalities... Like Chad is with his Dolphin on Dolphin Porn!
-installation was cake, unscrew a screw, pull drive out, remove cage, put on new drive, format via ps3 and restore backedup data from ext; good to go! all done in under 20 mins
-pc knowledge: uber geek; i like to take things apart or like the thinkgeek shirt i wear, 'i void warranties' hehe..
You have 52 games for the PS3? Do you have repeats because I've never even seen half of that at my local Best Buy.
That must be true. My local Best Buy might as well be called my XBOX 360 store because that's all the video game section carries. The Wii, PS2, and PS3 stuff are all bunched up into one isle. The PC gaming is in the rear next to the PCs.
I have been a proponent of ps3 self upgrading hdd's from day one. had the 20 gigs not been totally sold out I wouldve gotten one, however, since my ps3 gets used about as often as my left hand for masturbation (rarely) I haven't filled up my 60 gig just yet.
one day when I decide to reformat my comp hdd and transfer all my movies and music to my ps3 media hub I will probably get a nice 120 gig laptop hdd. time will tell...
also upgrading is as simple as unscrew a few screws, change hdd's and rescrew it in, followed by reformatting which is automatically prompted.
I reccomend leaving a bit for linux if anyone does reformat. its pretty cool having a basic computer to use at the sofa.
especially with a wireless K&M
360's need self upgradable hdd's so bad its a joke... but its got the games so I'll just eat my complaints while sucking off the massive microsoft tits.
http://ramjet.com/sata.asp 250 GB for $89 :) or 320GB for $109...
i used this website to upgrade my computer's memory, and they delivered well... i'm gonna use them when i upgrade my PS3..
i have a question about the PS3s OS. does it run off the harddrive or off the RAM? if you take out the HDD and put in a new one, will the OS still run normally?
except those drives are 3.5in drives and wont work in the PS3. you need a 2.5in laptop drive.
Since I have the 20 gig, upgrading the hard drive made a whole lot of sense.
The PS3 hard drive upgrade sounds about the same as the average HDD installation in a laptop.
no seriously, great that Sony 'supports' it :-)
I just got the 40 gig on not 3 days ago and only have 25 gigs free with 3 games. :\
I am tempted to do it some day.
The largest possible drive is nearly 1 TB (or something close to that). I guess all you'd have to do then would to put the drive in a caddy and there'd be more than enough space for all those 1080 films. Hell I'd even mold some black plastic into a PS3 shape and use that as the caddy. But then I'm probably too lazy to do that.
thanks for noticing that! i didn't even know there was a difference between laptop and desktop harddrives... up until now i've only heard "2.5 inch" hard drive, but this is the first time i've heard of 3.5 inch... had you not told me i probably would have went ahead and ordered one of those in a month or two after they got another price drop... so i'm guessing the 2.5 inch ones are more expensive?
its pointless to go larger since the ps3 wont write to the disk that fast, the drive it comes with is 5400 rpm.
Can you provide a reference for that? I seriously doubt there would be some intentional throttling of the SATA interface.
Of course, the 60GB drive I have is big enough for me. Yay for the "real" PS3. :)
I can't remember where i saw it, but it HAS been proven that a faster harddrive does indeed load things faster (surprise!) at the expense of the PS3 getting a little bit hotter. You may shave a few seconds off here and there, but the 5400's are cheaper so I would think it's not worth it.