PS3 question Needs answer

[neos_peace]

Um just a question I don't know that much about PS3's. SO I'm going to rely on you other fine people. I know PS3 come wiht a harddrive, ANd I thiink I know that they rely on a chip for the firmware deal. Here's my question, do you have to have the hardrive for the firmware updates and to play bluray's. Period.

[Terjyn]

You can also use USB flash drives and download from the web if you so choose.

Not sure how you'd end up with a hard-drive-less PS3 though.

[Valore]

Originally Posted by neos_peace

Um just a question I don't know that much about PS3's. SO I'm going to rely on you other fine people. I know PS3 come wiht a harddrive, ANd I thiink I know that they rely on a chip for the firmware deal. Here's my question, do you have to have the hardrive for the firmware updates and to play bluray's. Period.

what?....yes hard drive is needed for firm ware updates and to play blu rays. The blu-ray drive is too slow to stream stuff off it like a normal DVD more so if say the texture it is trying to load is 50mb+
so it needs to install stuff onto the hard drive to make load times faster. Without a hard drive you could be waiting hours for a game to load

[neos_peace]

Originally Posted by Valore

yes hard drive is needed for firm ware updates

weird I was told in another thread that the harddrive was not used for the firmware that it relys on some fer ship in its self for the firmware apparntly I was mis-informed.

[WriteSimply]

Originally Posted by neos_peace

weird I was told in another thread that the harddrive was not used for the firmware that it relys on some fer ship in its self for the firmware apparntly I was mis-informed.

That info is true. The firmware does not reside in the HDD. The firmware is flashed into EPROM of the PS3. So if you change your HDD, the last firmware you updated with would still be there.

HOWEVER, it doesn't mean that the PS3 will run without a HDD. It simply won't do it. The HDD is needed to unpack the PUP file the firmware comes in before it can be flashed into the EPROM. For BD playback, the HDD is needed to store timecode for resume play, bookmarks, as well as BD-Live data.


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[ricky tee78]

is the economy hurting you so bad, you have to strip your ps3 for parts?