Upgrading Your Hard Drive - Page 2 - Blu-ray Forum

akbungle · 02-17-2008, 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zak88lx

Go to Cosco and buy a 250 GB WD passport external drive for $139.
Carefully open it and inside you will find a WD Scorpio SATA drive.

Now remove the original oem drive from your PS3 and replace it with the 250 GB drive.
Take the original ps3 drive and place it into the WD passport case.

Now you have a 250 GB drive in your PS3 and a working 40, 60 or 80 GB external drive depending on what ps3 unit you purchased.

I did mine and it works great.

Zak

Or go to Best Buy as this week they have the 320GB Passport for 149.99! I did that two weeks ago and it worked great!

crackinhedz · 02-17-2008, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by TheLoudestSound

if you upgrade your ps3 hard drive wont the playstation 3 become slower or cause more problems for your ps3?

absolutely not.

as long as you use compatible drives.

(read through reviews and you will see if anyone else is using it for their PS3

)

komp · 02-17-2008, 07:26 PM

There is a 500GB disk for 200 UKP available, the downside is that it is 3mm thicker than normal 2.5in disks... gonna open up see what tolerances I have in there...

Oh the 500GB SATA HDD is made by Hitachi

Neo65 · 02-17-2008, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zak88lx

Go to Cosco and buy a 250 GB WD passport external drive for $139.
Carefully open it and inside you will find a WD Scorpio SATA drive.

Now remove the original oem drive from your PS3 and replace it with the 250 GB drive.
Take the original ps3 drive and place it into the WD passport case.

Now you have a 250 GB drive in your PS3 and a working 40, 60 or 80 GB external drive depending on what ps3 unit you purchased.

I did mine and it works great.

Zak

That's a good point! Those USB drives sip power and have to run off a single USB port. That basically means it has to draw very little power! I'm going to pick up a one to try it out.

Danv1369 · 02-18-2008, 03:46 AM

I was in my Local Best Buy tonight and they had the WD 120GB 2.5' SATA internal Notebook HDD for $56.99 on clearence. Is this a good Deal?

I immediatly grabbed it but put it back since since it said Notebook and wanted to check here first and it is listed above in the list of recommended Hard Drives

I think I will get it tomorrow unless anyone knows a reason not to???

AlaskaDon · 02-18-2008, 10:21 AM

Should work fine if it is on the list. Also I saw that BBY has a WD 160 gb on sale this week for $89.99 as well.

Danv1369 · 02-18-2008, 02:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlaskaDon

Should work fine if it is on the list. Also I saw that BBY has a WD 160 gb on sale this week for $89.99 as well.

Hmm the 160 i saw at bestbuy was on sale for 74.99. Sucks if the charge more in Alaska...

7eVEn · 02-18-2008, 06:25 PM

I have an external one from 750GB
I hope that you suffice

Allyria · 02-22-2008, 03:35 AM

I would like to get a 500gb but I would like to find something with a faster rpm.

partridge · 02-22-2008, 07:59 PM

If you use an external drive, how do you save to it? Surely be default all your demos and videos downloaded from PSN go straight to the internal drive - or do you mean all your own music and videos are stored on the external drive?

Brian Cash · 02-22-2008, 08:11 PM

Can you plug a external hard drive threw usb port to the ps3 and well it work?

ps3andlovinit · 02-22-2008, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by partridge

If you use an external drive, how do you save to it? Surely be default all your demos and videos downloaded from PSN go straight to the internal drive - or do you mean all your own music and videos are stored on the external drive?

Demos, game add-ins save to the internal drive.only...but if you have an external storage installed (usb drive, memory card) you are presented with the option to save trailers etc to whatever device is connected.

P.S. The background downloading only works when saving to the internal drive AFAIK.

highdef monster · 02-23-2008, 05:06 PM

After installing and formating new hard drive what do you have to do to get all your old settings on to it like psn ID,game saves etc.Is that posiblle or you have to start all over again

Danv1369 · 02-23-2008, 10:49 PM

Highdef Monster...before installing the new HDD you should go to settings and use the backup utility. You will need an Ext HDD or very large memory stick/flash drive to do this. I upgraded my HDD last week and needed 14GB of space for the back up. I only had a 4GB flash drive so I transfer all my vids and pics to my laptop and deleted a bunch of the game data utility saves to get the back up to fit. The only thing I had to reinstall after the new HDD was installed and updated with the back up was the games that I had downloaded from the PSN. All my othe information PSN ID, billing info Saved game data etc was installed with the Backup.

juanleche · 02-23-2008, 11:46 PM

I am unclear on the answer to this, will the back up tool back up everything and everything? will running the full backup copy all my music pictures, games saves, dowloads & settings? I have heard mixed answers on this, and I understand I might have to redownload stuff which is fine, but I recall others saying that doing a full backup will copy over the downloads and saves also

which is it?

PS3ds · 02-24-2008, 08:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by juanleche

I am unclear on the answer to this, will the back up tool back up everything and everything? will running the full backup copy all my music pictures, games saves, dowloads & settings? I have heard mixed answers on this, and I understand I might have to redownload stuff which is fine, but I recall others saying that doing a full backup will copy over the downloads and saves also

which is it?

I'd like to know this also. And how do you run the back up once the NEW HDD is installed?

I'm down to 7GB!!!

ps3andlovinit · 02-24-2008, 09:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by juanleche

I am unclear on the answer to this, will the back up tool back up everything and everything? will running the full backup copy all my music pictures, games saves, dowloads & settings? I have heard mixed answers on this, and I understand I might have to redownload stuff which is fine, but I recall others saying that doing a full backup will copy over the downloads and saves also

which is it?

It will do everything. This was my findings and approach .. some of which may apply to you or not..

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...kup#post338412

jualdeaux · 02-25-2008, 12:27 AM

Okay. Dumb question from a complete newbie. I read in the initial post that the new HDD has to be reformatted before use. Does the PS3 do the reformatting for you once you restart the machine after the HDD replacement?

Danv1369 · 02-25-2008, 04:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jualdeaux

Okay. Dumb question from a complete newbie. I read in the initial post that the new HDD has to be reformatted before use. Does the PS3 do the reformatting for you once you restart the machine after the HDD replacement?

Yes, after installing and powering up you will be prompted to Format the HDD. It is fairly quick.

helli3yte · 02-25-2008, 11:51 AM

u might as well wait for samsung to release their 500 gb 2.5 hard drive in march.

02-18-2008, 03:46 AM	#25
Danv1369 Active Member Member since:Apr 2007 Location:California Blu-ray collection:60	WD 120GB for $56.99? I was in my Local Best Buy tonight and they had the WD 120GB 2.5' SATA internal Notebook HDD for $56.99 on clearence. Is this a good Deal? I immediatly grabbed it but put it back since since it said Notebook and wanted to check here first and it is listed above in the list of recommended Hard Drives I think I will get it tomorrow unless anyone knows a reason not to???

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7eVEn Active Member Member since:Apr 2007 Location:Italy (Venezia) Home Theater Gallery:29 Blu-ray collection:76	I have an external one from 750GB I hope that you suffice

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02-22-2008, 07:59 PM	#30
partridge Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Oct 2005 Location:England	If you use an external drive, how do you save to it? Surely be default all your demos and videos downloaded from PSN go straight to the internal drive - or do you mean all your own music and videos are stored on the external drive?

02-22-2008, 08:11 PM	#31
Brian Cash Special Member Member since:Dec 2007 Location:Chicago Blu-ray collection:13 Blu-ray reviews:2 Trading Score:3	Can you plug a external hard drive threw usb port to the ps3 and well it work?

02-23-2008, 05:06 PM	#33
highdef monster Active Member Member since:Jan 2007 Location:fargo nd	After installing and formating new hard drive what do you have to do to get all your old settings on to it like psn ID,game saves etc.Is that posiblle or you have to start all over again

02-23-2008, 10:49 PM	#34
Danv1369 Active Member Member since:Apr 2007 Location:California Blu-ray collection:60	Highdef Monster...before installing the new HDD you should go to settings and use the backup utility. You will need an Ext HDD or very large memory stick/flash drive to do this. I upgraded my HDD last week and needed 14GB of space for the back up. I only had a 4GB flash drive so I transfer all my vids and pics to my laptop and deleted a bunch of the game data utility saves to get the back up to fit. The only thing I had to reinstall after the new HDD was installed and updated with the back up was the games that I had downloaded from the PSN. All my othe information PSN ID, billing info Saved game data etc was installed with the Backup.

02-23-2008, 11:46 PM	#35
juanleche Active Member Member since:Oct 2007	I am unclear on the answer to this, will the back up tool back up everything and everything? will running the full backup copy all my music pictures, games saves, dowloads & settings? I have heard mixed answers on this, and I understand I might have to redownload stuff which is fine, but I recall others saying that doing a full backup will copy over the downloads and saves also which is it?

02-25-2008, 12:27 AM	#38
jualdeaux Member Member since:Feb 2008 Blu-ray collection:111 DVD collection:25	Okay. Dumb question from a complete newbie. I read in the initial post that the new HDD has to be reformatted before use. Does the PS3 do the reformatting for you once you restart the machine after the HDD replacement?

02-25-2008, 11:51 AM	#40
helli3yte Active Member Member since:Nov 2006 Location:Mt.Prospect, IL	u might as well wait for samsung to release their 500 gb 2.5 hard drive in march.

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