probably a dumb question but bear with me - Blu-ray Forum

zor · 06-20-2008, 12:26 AM

I'm new to the PS3 and was just wondering is there any advantage or disadvantage to saving saved games to the hard drive versus a USB flash drive? Any thoughts? I just want to be fully prepared before diving into the PS3 (games that is; I already have used BDs on it and both DVDs and BDs seem to display a LOT better with the PS3 than with my old Philips BDP9000) TIA.

Shin-Ra · 06-20-2008, 12:31 AM

Saves need to be on the internal HDD for games to access them. If you mean for backup, it doesn't really matter what portable storage you use.

Blue_Baron · 06-20-2008, 12:41 AM

Flash drives are very handy for carrying files from place to place and computer to computer. However, they are relatively volatile storage, so you should never consider them a primary backup for your files. They fail much, much, much more quickly than CDs or hard drives.

06-20-2008, 12:26 AM	#1
zor Senior Member Member since:Jun 2008	probably a dumb question but bear with me I'm new to the PS3 and was just wondering is there any advantage or disadvantage to saving saved games to the hard drive versus a USB flash drive? Any thoughts? I just want to be fully prepared before diving into the PS3 (games that is; I already have used BDs on it and both DVDs and BDs seem to display a LOT better with the PS3 than with my old Philips BDP9000) TIA.

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06-20-2008, 12:31 AM	#2
Shin-Ra Super Moderator Top contributor Member since:Feb 2007 Blu-ray collection:5 Trading Score:1	Saves need to be on the internal HDD for games to access them. If you mean for backup, it doesn't really matter what portable storage you use.

06-20-2008, 12:41 AM	#3
Blue_Baron Active Member Member since:Sep 2007 Home Theater Gallery:41 4K collection:760 Blu-ray collection:2313 DVD collection:90 Blu-ray reviews:2	Flash drives are very handy for carrying files from place to place and computer to computer. However, they are relatively volatile storage, so you should never consider them a primary backup for your files. They fail much, much, much more quickly than CDs or hard drives.

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