Best Way To Transfer Everything From One PS3 To Another?

[jamclaur]

Upload the protected saves. back up to external HDD. transplant HDD. Reinstall from external HDD.

Simply transplanting the HDD wont work it will make you reformat it. You can delete all your game data if you want. None of it holds save information. However some of it does hold DLC so you'd have to redownload some of that, and it holds all the patches, so you'd have to repatch every game as well as install the game data.

The only way to transfer protected saves is the cloud... If you can do a straight data transfer from one PS3 to another.