Upgrading Your Hard Drive

[Marine Mike]

Originally Posted by partridge

On the verge of upgrading to a 250Gb drive - just to be clear; using the PS3 back up option backs up everything?

game saves
game patches
downloaded demos
videos
photos
music
user accounts

Yes?

Yes, as well as system settings. Though I like to back up my gave saves on a seperate USB individually just in case

[phlydude]

My pictures were too valuable to chance so I moved them off before hand (depending on how many you have, this can save time on creating back-up and restore)

It even saves the information for your bluetooth remote so you don't have to re-setup that thing

[partridge]

thanks guys

[jkwest]

just to ease the minds of anyone considering this...

I performed the excesion and replacement last night...

I had a 250GB external USB HD that I used to put a backup on first...this takes about an hour..be prepared...
Then popped off the cover, unscrewed the blue screw, and pulled out the baby hardrive.
Unscrew the four screws around the outside of the shelf, removed the 40GB HD and put the 320GB in its place...replaced the four screws..popped back into place and rescrewed the blue holder screw.

Formatted the HD, and started the restore process...an hour later, voila!! done!! Simplest HD replacement I have ever done.

If the only thing holding you back is your fear of ruining something, then just do it...it is so simple it is ridiculous, srsly...

[galperi1]

Just upgraded yesterday also with the 320GB I bought. The biggest pain in the butt were the 5 screws you have to take out. I stripped ALL of them and had to use a pliers to get them off. Luckily I have random screws lying around so that I could replace them... but what a pain. Took me a total of 1.5 hours to get the screws off. After that it was super easy though

[ADRiiAN`]

Originally Posted by galperi1

Just upgraded yesterday also with the 320GB I bought. The biggest pain in the butt were the 5 screws you have to take out. I stripped ALL of them and had to use a pliers to get them off. Luckily I have random screws lying around so that I could replace them... but what a pain. Took me a total of 1.5 hours to get the screws off. After that it was super easy though

Holy Crap.

I'm waiting for the 500GB Sata Drives! But, does the PS3 even recongize it?

[pmac]

Yesterday my laptop died out of warranty. So I took out the HDD. Then I glanced over to the PS3, and said WTheck.
I unplugged it took off the Black plastic cover, unscrewed the blue screw, slid the Hdd over and pulled it out. unscrewed the old from the support bracket and screwed the new one (old Laptop HDD 160gig) in. inserted it slid it into place put the blue screw back in replaced the black plastic cover and plugged it all back in (I should mention I backed up the game saves one by one to an SD car first. my music and whatnot I didn’t care about. I own all my cds so that can be reinstalled at anytime.
Turned on the PS3 (this is about 10 minutes later after the backup of the game saves), it says you need to format. So I did.

Have a nice day it was formatted (quick format no doubt) in about a minute. and all I had to do was re-download and install all my online games again, plus copy the game saves over again. Unit is working great. It was a no brainer. I didn’t have to look up anything online even once. Now I have a 60GIG Ps3 with 150GIG Hdd (system sees 150GIG, who am I to argue, it only showed 55 on the 60 gig. )

If you have been on the fence, "just do it"!
Easiest Game console upgrade I have ever done, just one more reason the PS3 will be the champion of all consoles down the road.
Gonna take the 60GIG and throw it in a drawer somewhere.

[phlydude]

If you are going to spend the $100 to upgrade your hard drive, spend the extra $8 at Wal-Mart and buy these screwdrivers - use the largest phillips / cross-head driver in there and use firm downward pressure and you won't even mar the screws

http://www.stanleytools.com/default....crewdriver+Set

[Aaron]

My PS3 HDD just crashed (I think). I can only play games for like 20 seconds before if freezes.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152111

^any good?

[Marine Mike]

Originally Posted by Aaron

My PS3 HDD just crashed (I think). I can only play games for like 20 seconds before if freezes.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152111

^any good?

Personally I would get one from Seagate as they are a company that I trust and have proven themselves to me to make good quality products.

This is comparable to your price:
Its a Seagate 250GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148310


Though what I'm personally going to get for my PS3 is:
Seagate 200GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148307

[WriteSimply]

Originally Posted by Aaron

My PS3 HDD just crashed (I think). I can only play games for like 20 seconds before if freezes.

Keep trying. Then reformat. THEN get a new HDD.


fuad

[Zman2k2]

I thought I read somewhere that some Western Digital USB drives are, inside the case, exactly what one would look for in an upgrade drive. 2.5", SATA, 5400rpm, etc. Does anyone know which drives I'm talking about? Because I'm thinking of buying one of these and having the case right there after to put the 40G PS3 drive in, for storage uses.

[phlydude]

I know what you are talking about - I haven't kept up with it in the past couple months as I found OEM drives to be cheaper as of late...

[sega_smasher]

damn screws wont come off! (blue came off easy but the other 4 are a spawn of the devil!) my extra chassis will be coming in about 2 weeks...which means ima have to play my xbox and wii till it comes. *sigh* and right when i got hooked on disgaea 3. =(

[Cplhicks]

I just did mine today. No trouble with the screws at all. Huh. My major hitch was when I loaded it back, it said I had no trophies (I only have them for Uncharted). Went back and played some, unlocked Survivor, it gave me my trophies back-- but no Survivor. So now the game says it's unlocked, but I have no trophy for it. How the heck do I fix that?

[DeathByAsh'aman]

Originally Posted by sega_smasher

damn screws wont come off! (blue came off easy but the other 4 are a spawn of the devil!) my extra chassis will be coming in about 2 weeks...which means ima have to play my xbox and wii till it comes. *sigh* and right when i got hooked on disgaea 3. =(

I just used a pair of pliers to hold the screw driver so i got more torque. Piece of cake! Well at least with my screws.

[Zman2k2]

Originally Posted by sega_smasher

damn screws wont come off! (blue came off easy but the other 4 are a spawn of the devil!) my extra chassis will be coming in about 2 weeks...which means ima have to play my xbox and wii till it comes. *sigh* and right when i got hooked on disgaea 3. =(

For everyone having trouble with the screws, here's some info. What you need is a Phillips #3 screwdriver. That size fits the screws perfectly.

[Forrestandjen07]

I have the 40gig ps3

40 gig sucks

Well adding a new HDD void My Bestbuy/sony warinty?

and if i add a new HDD how to i get the PS3 software on it?

[WriteSimply]

Originally Posted by Forrestandjen07

I have the 40gig ps3

40 gig sucks

Well adding a new HDD void My Bestbuy/sony warinty?

No it would not avoid your warranty

and if i add a new HDD how to i get the PS3 software on it?

What PS3 software?


fuad

[Shin-Ra]

The System Software is stored on internal flash memory, not the HDD so when you put the new HDD in and start up it will be formatted and configured automatically.