Upgrading Your Hard Drive - Page 33 - Blu-ray Forum

Goodintentions · 03-17-2009, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by jamclaur

I'm about to do this.

But before I do... This drive will work right?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136314

itll work im getting the same one ( from amazon though ) but beware you are getting an OEM one here .. the one im getting from amazon is not OEM ..

jamclaur · 03-17-2009, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Goodintentions

itll work im getting the same one ( from amazon though ) but beware you are getting an OEM one here .. the one im getting from amazon is not OEM ..

What the hell is OEM? I know what that means in cars... but not computers... or is it the same thing?

Can you link me to the one you're getting?

dereksworl · 03-17-2009, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by jamclaur

What the hell is OEM?

OMG, i swear i was about to make this identical post Lol

pacificvibes · 03-17-2009, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by jamclaur

What the hell is OEM? I know what that means in cars... but not computers... or is it the same thing?

Can you link me to the one you're getting?

original equipment manufacturer?????

EDIT: I want to put 1TB in my PS3, I wonder if thats possible??

jamclaur · 03-17-2009, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by pacificvibes

original equipment manufacturer?????

EDIT: I want to put 1TB in my PS3, I wonder if thats possible??

not yet. You have to wait until a 1tb 2.5 laptop drive is out.

edit: http://www.supermediastore.com/weste...ard-drive.html

pacificvibes · 03-17-2009, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by jamclaur

not yet. You have to wait until a 1tb 2.5 laptop drive is out.

edit: http://www.supermediastore.com/weste...ard-drive.html

crap...I saw this on BestBuy.com but it says 3.5

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1186003683968

DAMN...I guess 500GB is big enough

Goodintentions · 03-17-2009, 07:54 PM

OEM is a 3rd party who is licensed/partnered/etc to make a product orignally made by another company .. kinda like a person paying to use the name burger king ... its not actually the burger king corporation .. but they are able to use hte name ..

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001JSSDGU

heres the amazon link same price as newegg but not oem

jamclaur · 03-17-2009, 08:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Goodintentions

OEM is a 3rd party who is licensed/partnered/etc to make a product orignally made by another company .. kinda like a person paying to use the name burger king ... its not actually the burger king corporation .. but they are able to use hte name ..

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001JSSDGU

heres the amazon link same price as newegg but not oem

awesome... ordered.

SkantDragon · 03-17-2009, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Goodintentions

OEM is a 3rd party who is licensed/partnered/etc to make a product orignally made by another company .. kinda like a person paying to use the name burger king ... its not actually the burger king corporation .. but they are able to use hte name ..

You are incorrect, sir. An OEM hard drive is not produced _by_ a different manufacturer. Rather it is produced _for_ a different manufacturer.

The drive in question will have been made by Western Digital in the same factory right along side the retail hard drives. The only difference is that the hard drive was intended to be sold to another company such as Dell for inclusion in their PCs.

The difference between a retail hard drive and an OEM hard drive is whether or not it comes in a pretty box, includes a software bundle of crap you don't need, and possibly the warranty may be different.

A PS3 can't use any of the software bundle anyway, so I see no reason to avoid OEM hard drives for PS3 upgrades. Unless you really need it to arrive in a pretty box.

Goodintentions · 03-18-2009, 10:56 AM

i stand corrected ..

anyway my hard drive will be here today sadly my flash drive wont be here till friday

jamclaur · 03-18-2009, 10:11 PM

I just got my 500gb drive in and I want to make sure I do everything correctly.

Right now i'm backing up the data utility to an external HDD.

After that finishes I install the drive, the PS3 formats it, then I install the data utility and i'm done...

right?

dereksworl · 03-18-2009, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Goodintentions

i stand corrected ..

anyway my hard drive will be here today sadly my flash drive wont be here till friday

I hope its a high speed flash drive. I initially tried to back my stuff up on a "standard" speed USB 16Gb flash drive, and the estimated back up time was 32 hours

. Popped in a high speed SD card and it only took 22 mins

caliblue15 · 03-18-2009, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by jamclaur

I just got my 500gb drive in and I want to make sure I do everything correctly.

Right now i'm backing up the data utility to an external HDD.

After that finishes I install the drive, the PS3 formats it, then I install the data utility and i'm done...

right?

yep..

jamclaur · 03-18-2009, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by caliblue15

yep..

thanks. My stomach is in knots waiting for this to be over. haha

Goodintentions · 03-19-2009, 10:59 AM

i am now the owner of a 500gb PS3 yay
amazingly though after installing nad formatting .. the system said i had 411/465gb i know part of all hard drives is left for system and softwarre stuff but what ate up 54gb of my drive right off the bat ???

anyway still have to redownload all my PSN games tonight ran out of time
and yeah it was a high speed flash as backing up 14gb of stuff took about 25 mins ..

caliblue15 · 03-19-2009, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Goodintentions

i am now the owner of a 500gb PS3 yay
amazingly though after installing nad formatting .. the system said i had 411/465gb i know part of all hard drives is left for system and softwarre stuff but what ate up 54gb of my drive right off the bat ???

anyway still have to redownload all my PSN games tonight ran out of time
and yeah it was a high speed flash as backing up 14gb of stuff took about 25 mins ..

Hard Drives are rated at 1000mb/GB, PS3's/ Windows systems rate them at 1024mb/GB, times that by 500, and thats all the GB's you are losing...

Goodintentions · 03-19-2009, 02:26 PM

oh no biggie .. even after i finish reinstalling my PSN games and stuff ill still have about 398 gb left .. ill never fill that anyway

Marine Mike · 03-19-2009, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Goodintentions

oh no biggie .. even after i finish reinstalling my PSN games and stuff ill still have about 398 gb left .. ill never fill that anyway

I have similar thoughts as well. I know a lot of people that fill up their hard drive never delete their demos and such, but I do which saves a lot of space.

However, I may not delete them if there was an option to place them in a folder. I just don't like it how they take up so much space. I'm very OCD when it comes to things like that.

caliblue15 · 03-19-2009, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Goodintentions

oh no biggie .. even after i finish reinstalling my PSN games and stuff ill still have about 398 gb left .. ill never fill that anyway

Reinstalling? If you did a backup utility, you should not need to redownload/ reinstall anything..

Goodintentions · 03-19-2009, 02:42 PM

i only had a 16gb flash drive ( actual 14gb available) and i had over 45gb of stuff to restore .. so i figured id delete the gamesand jsut reinstall them since i dont gameshare anyway .. i even had to delete a bunch of my game data files so some games ill have to go and put in to reinstall the game data ..

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03-17-2009, 07:54 PM	#647
Goodintentions Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jan 2009 Location:the Anals of Uranus Blu-ray collection:16	OEM is a 3rd party who is licensed/partnered/etc to make a product orignally made by another company .. kinda like a person paying to use the name burger king ... its not actually the burger king corporation .. but they are able to use hte name .. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001JSSDGU heres the amazon link same price as newegg but not oem

03-18-2009, 10:56 AM	#650
Goodintentions Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jan 2009 Location:the Anals of Uranus Blu-ray collection:16	i stand corrected .. anyway my hard drive will be here today sadly my flash drive wont be here till friday

03-18-2009, 10:11 PM	#651
jamclaur Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Aug 2007 4K collection:75 Blu-ray collection:849 Trading Score:34	I just got my 500gb drive in and I want to make sure I do everything correctly. Right now i'm backing up the data utility to an external HDD. After that finishes I install the drive, the PS3 formats it, then I install the data utility and i'm done... right?

03-19-2009, 10:59 AM	#655
Goodintentions Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jan 2009 Location:the Anals of Uranus Blu-ray collection:16	i am now the owner of a 500gb PS3 yay amazingly though after installing nad formatting .. the system said i had 411/465gb i know part of all hard drives is left for system and softwarre stuff but what ate up 54gb of my drive right off the bat ??? anyway still have to redownload all my PSN games tonight ran out of time and yeah it was a high speed flash as backing up 14gb of stuff took about 25 mins ..

03-19-2009, 02:26 PM	#657
Goodintentions Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jan 2009 Location:the Anals of Uranus Blu-ray collection:16	oh no biggie .. even after i finish reinstalling my PSN games and stuff ill still have about 398 gb left .. ill never fill that anyway

03-19-2009, 02:42 PM	#660
Goodintentions Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jan 2009 Location:the Anals of Uranus Blu-ray collection:16	i only had a 16gb flash drive ( actual 14gb available) and i had over 45gb of stuff to restore .. so i figured id delete the gamesand jsut reinstall them since i dont gameshare anyway .. i even had to delete a bunch of my game data files so some games ill have to go and put in to reinstall the game data ..

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