Do the firmware updates eat up your hardrive?? - Blu-ray Forum

dgator783 · 06-23-2008, 01:00 AM

dont forget game saves

M · 06-23-2008, 01:07 AM

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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 · 06-23-2008, 02:52 AM

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 · 06-23-2008, 03:41 AM

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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 · 06-23-2008, 07:04 AM

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 · 06-23-2008, 01:29 PM

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 · 06-23-2008, 01:39 PM

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?

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06-23-2008, 01:00 AM	#1
dgator783 Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Feb 2007 Location:Lakeland,FL 4K collection:377 Blu-ray collection:1521 Blu-ray reviews:11 Trading Score:14	dont forget game saves

06-23-2008, 02:52 AM	#3
jeabombers Expert Member Member since:Jun 2008 Location:CoMo	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?

06-23-2008, 07:04 AM	#5
brett_day Blu-ray Guru Member since:Mar 2008 Location:Moore, Oklahoma Home Theater Gallery:18 Blu-ray collection:45 Blu-ray reviews:1 Trading Score:1	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!

06-23-2008, 01:29 PM	#6
caliblue15 Blu-ray Knight Member since:Dec 2007 Home Theater Gallery:12 Blu-ray collection:85 Blu-ray reviews:1 Trading Score:6	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.

06-23-2008, 01:39 PM	#7
Rovic Expert Member Member since:Jan 2008 Location:Orange County, CA Home Theater Gallery:22 Blu-ray collection:252 Blu-ray reviews: 1	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?

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