PS3 Hard drive and music transfering ?'s

[martinstraka8282]

I just wanted to confirm that this would work... 2.5" sata 250gb 5400rpm hard drive to put in my PS3. I'm 99% sure that I'm right, but want to confirm.

Also, I want to know what the music transfering is like on the PS3. I have 160gb worth of MP3's properly tagged and organized on my external hard drive... can I just plug the external into the PS3 via usb and transfer the MP3's over in one copy and paste motion, and will it preserve the tags and organization of my music?

[w_tanoto]

Originally Posted by martinstraka8282

I just wanted to confirm that this would work... 2.5" sata 250gb 5400rpm hard drive to put in my PS3. I'm 99% sure that I'm right, but want to confirm.

Also, I want to know what the music transfering is like on the PS3. I have 160gb worth of MP3's properly tagged and organized on my external hard drive... can I just plug the external into the PS3 via usb and transfer the MP3's over in one copy and paste motion, and will it preserve the tags and organization of my music?

i am wondering that you have re-formatted the HDD since you bought it. If you have, then your file system is likely to be NTFS (that is if you use windows). It must be FAT32, and FAT32 has a limit: 32GB maximum
You need to make a partition and it must be less than 32 GB

[martinstraka8282]

Originally Posted by w_tanoto

i am wondering that you have re-formatted the HDD since you bought it. If you have, then your file system is likely to be NTFS (that is if you use windows). It must be FAT32, and FAT32 has a limit: 32GB maximum
You need to make a partition and it must be less than 32 GB

I'm not sure what you mean. I don't actually have the hard drive yet, I'm gonna order it to put it in my PS3, and I am wondering if I can transfer 160gb worth of music onto it at once, or is there a limit per transfer? I only have a 60gb in it right now, and I'm experimenting with transfering stuff right now through a usb 1 gb stick, but that isnt big enough to test my theory.

[martinstraka8282]

Will this one work?

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...416&CatId=1277

[partridge]

FAT32? partition? all the online guides I've read say you just replace the drive and let the PS3 format it, then copy back all your content. Easy. There are guys on this forum that have 200Gb drives in the PS3's, I will be joining them in the new year!

[martinstraka8282]

Will the PS3 even recongnize an external HDD that is formatted in NTFS

[w_tanoto]

Originally Posted by partridge

FAT32? partition? all the online guides I've read say you just replace the drive and let the PS3 format it, then copy back all your content. Easy. There are guys on this forum that have 200Gb drives in the PS3's, I will be joining them in the new year!

i am talking about the external hdd. about internal, you are correct

[[DWG] Jambi]

Originally Posted by w_tanoto

i am wondering that you have re-formatted the HDD since you bought it. If you have, then your file system is likely to be NTFS (that is if you use windows). It must be FAT32, and FAT32 has a limit: 32GB maximum
You need to make a partition and it must be less than 32 GB

Here to help.
That internal drive should work. Put it in the PS3 and it will detect it and format it. Your external drive needs to be formated FAT32 or the PS3 will not recognize it. There is not a 32gb limit to FAT32. The limit of FAT32 is 8tb. The problem is Windows can not make a partition larger than 32gb so you will have to use a third party program to do it. I have 400gb external Seagate drive connected to my PS3 and it can see all my music. All 110gb of it. I used Seagate tools to format my external drive. Hope this helps.

[ps3andlovinit]

Originally Posted by [DWG] Jambi

The problem is Windows can not make a partition larger than 32gb so you will have to use a third party program to do it.

Or if he has access to a Mac it will do it.

[w_tanoto]

Originally Posted by [DWG] Jambi

Here to help.
That internal drive should work. Put it in the PS3 and it will detect it and format it. Your external drive needs to be formated FAT32 or the PS3 will not recognize it. There is not a 32gb limit to FAT32. The limit of FAT32 is 8tb. The problem is Windows can not make a partition larger than 32gb so you will have to use a third party program to do it. I have 400gb external Seagate drive connected to my PS3 and it can see all my music. All 110gb of it. I used Seagate tools to format my external drive. Hope this helps.

I actually a bit shocked why I can't create partition larger than 32GB (while I could do it before migrating to vista). That stupid vista can't run my partition magic.