60GB on your PS3 is not big enough for ya?

[WriteSimply]

Using this cable, you can get 750GB!

Well the trick is to get a 750GB 3.5" SATA drive and use this cable to connect it to your PS3. You can probably use a standard 3.5 external enclosure but without attaching it to its connector; juse leave it open ended.

The How-To forum link is here.

The cable purchase link is here

Ideally somebody would make the male extension of the SATA cable and have an eSATA connector on the other end.

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EDIT: After doing more research, I've concluded that the above method would work only if you severe the power cables and use a seperate power cord to power the SATA drive.

I believe this method will work better. It also uses the all important external HDD enclosure. Essentiall, what you need is a SATA drive, an external enclosure that supports eSATA (that's external SATA) cable, and a 7-pin male to a 7-pin female SATA cable. The cable looks like this.
The original photo is a 22-pin SATA cable that provides DATA (the blue cable) and power support (red and yellow). The photo above is just the data cable.

To get it to work with the connector inside the PS3, you need to remove one of the clips (as shown) and file it smooth so that it can fit in the connector. Compare the two male connectors in the two pix and you'll see what I mean. Once that is done, connect the female connector to the eSATA port on the external enclosure.

The only drawback to this is that this cable is not shielded, unlike an actual eSATA cable. If you are good at soldering, you could buy one of these:

then cut one end of an eSATA cable, then solder the wires to the 7-pin male connector.


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[Amon37]

Interesting idea but for me personally instead of having to hack cables I would buy a 400GB or 500GB and just swap it out.

[Casey]

yea just swap one or use an external usb hard drive

[WriteSimply]

A 200GB-400GB 2.5" HDD is going to cost twice the cost of a similar capacity 3.5" HDD.

Using an external HDD drive you can't use that as game saves, the PS3 can't use that as cache (I don't think) and you can use that to keep your demos in. Everything game-related uses the SATA link.


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[Blackraven]

To each is his/her own.

But personally, I don't like the HDD sticking out of the console.

So in my case, I would get a higher capacity 2.5 inch drive that can be put inside the drive bay. (even if it costs 2-3x more)

Probably along the lines of a Seagate Momentus 100 GB 7200rpm disk drive.

[WriteSimply]

I'm having a problem locating the red cable. Most of the SATA cables in the market is female-to-female, meant for use within the PC. The cost is cheap though.

I have located a cable meant to be used as part of an eSATA. It uses one of the PCI window. But essentially it is a 7-pin female-to-male cable. I just have to take it apart from the metal and plastic bits.

I do think this method will work as I've examined the insides of a an external SATA enclosure.


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