External Hard Discs and PS3

[Bobby Henderson]

I'm interested in buying a large capacity external hard disc to attach to my 80GB PS3 via USB 2.0. I'd like to use the external hard disc as a "jukebox" of sorts for storing a backup of all the LPCM tracks of my music CD collection (hundreds of legally store bought discs).

Anybody else done something like this? I'm looking for any possible technical problems that might come up during the process.

For one thing, PS3 doesn't recognize NTFS hard disc partitions. I'm stuck with using FAT32. Naturally that raises the issue of partition size. What's really the sweet spot for high capacity while maintaining a good efficient cluster size? With NTFS, your cluster sizes are only 4k no matter how big the partition. Not so with FAT32. And then there's that 4GB file size limit -but not a big deal for what I want to do.

Anyway...any tips?