Do the firmware updates eat up your hardrive??

[mikey3319]

I dont get it i have a 60 gig ps3, and now i have onbly 39 left, all i have on my ps3 is a wall-e trailer and gta 4 save???

[M]

Originally Posted by mikey3319

I dont get it i have a 60 gig ps3, and now i have onbly 39 left, all i have on my ps3 is a wall-e trailer and gta 4 save???

Correct me if I'm wrong now, but I'm pretty darn sure GTA IV actually installs around 4gb to 5gb onto your HDD.

As for updates, I havn't notice them take up any room and I have quite alot stored on mine, perhaps some other games you play have installed onto the HDD like GTA IV.

[hayzink]

Originally Posted by mikey3319

I dont get it i have a 60 gig ps3, and now i have onbly 39 left, all i have on my ps3 is a wall-e trailer and gta 4 save???

YOU WILL FIND THAT GAMES LIKE GTA MAKE AN INSTALL FILE A THINK GTA IS ABOUT 4GB NEED TO CHECK.


PLUS THE PS3 USES SOME OF THE 60GB YOU DONT GET 60GB OF SPACE EVEN WITH IT RESTORED TO FACTORY SETTINGS

[M]

Originally Posted by hayzink

YOU WILL FIND THAT GAMES LIKE GTA MAKE AN INSTALL FILE A THINK GTA IS ABOUT 4GB NEED TO CHECK.

I used to own several games for my PS3 and the only game which did this much damage when it installed was GTA IV, just another reason for me to dislike it.

Originally Posted by hayzink

PLUS THE PS3 USES SOME OF THE 60GB YOU DONT GET 60GB OF SPACE EVEN WITH IT RESTORED TO FACTORY SETTINGS

Any harddrive you may buy or own will never be the exact amount it states.

An 80gb will be around 76gb, but the bigger the HDD the more that will be missing, if you have a single 500gb HDD, you will most likely be missing a fair size chunk so you may only have 475gb in reality.

However, the 60gb HDD in the PS3 should have around 55gb to 58gb atleast without anything installed on it.

[allstar780]

the updates do not install to the hard drive... the system has a small amount of flash memory just like any other BD player... only probably more than most as it keeps the whole OS of the PS3

[dgator783]

dont forget game saves

[M]

Originally Posted by dgator783

dont forget game saves

They shouldn't take up much room, unless you're saving 100's of games, in which case they may do so, I don't know for sure as I only really play 2 games but arn't all game saves Kilobytes in size, that's tiny and it would take a long time to fill up a fair chunk of the PS3's HDD.

[jeabombers]

My PS3 60 gig had 55 gig available out-of-box, so they've accounted for your other "missing" space with the GTAIV install. MGSIV is something like 5gb as well, and so is Oblivion. At some point in time in the near future, people are going to have to remove these files from their systems in order to have room.... Is it possible to delete an actual game's installed information like you can a save file?

[Toptube]

Originally Posted by jeabombers

Is it possible to delete an actual game's installed information like you can a save file?

Yes. There is a specific folder for the install data from games.

Also, I dunno the actual size of the memory for the OS, but I'd bet its 512mb - 1gig because the firmware updates are often over 100mb in size.

[brett_day]

no firmware does not eat up hard drive space. The firmware is flashed to a chip on the ps3 mobo, hence the name firmware, if it was software it would go to the HD but firm ware goes straight to a dedicated flash chip!

[caliblue15]

As for the gigs you are losing, when you get up higher.

It is because Hard Drive companies do it as 1000mb for a GB. and Microsoft/Sony do it as 1024MB for a GB.

That 24mb racks up really fast the more GB's you go up, and slowly lose GB.

My 125GB hard drive starting out was 112GB.

You are also losing Hard Drive space, to installs, game saves, messages, or themes.

[Rovic]

I was wondering if you can erase data from games from your hdd...for example there is a hughe install from the game grand tourismo, if i don't play it anymore and i want to uninstall/erase what it did install....can i erase it from the hard drive?

[Shin-Ra]

Of course, your save is a separate file.