Upgrading PS3 Hard Drive.

Otacon · 07-07-2010 10:00AM

Fair enough. They should be able to help.

F1ngers · 07-07-2010 10:12AM

Otacon wrote: »

EDIT: What make and model is the new HDD? Have you made sure it works with the PS3?

weiland79 wrote: »

Well i was just going to pop around to petes in dublin on my lunch break and have a chat with them.

HDD requirements:
• 2.5" SATA (aka a laptop hdd)
• 9.5 mm height
• speed: 5400 rpm or faster
• cache: 8MB or more
• size/capacity: as much as you want

Get a caddy also, so that when you take out the HDD you can then use it as an external HD.

Dacelonid · 07-07-2010 10:15AM

Otacon wrote: »

If so, simply plug in the HDD and connect it to the PS3.

Has to be formatted as FAT32 from what I remember though.

weiland79 · 07-07-2010 12:05PM

F1ngers wrote: »

HDD requirements:
• 2.5" SATA (aka a laptop hdd)
• 9.5 mm height
• speed: 5400 rpm or faster
• cache: 8MB or more
• size/capacity: as much as you want

Get a caddy also, so that when you take out the HDD you can then use it as an external HD.

Sorry but can you explain what a caddy is? And do you mean that i can use the old drive as an external?

F1ngers · 07-07-2010 01:26PM

weiland79 wrote: »

Sorry but can you explain what a caddy is? And do you mean that i can use the old drive as an external?

A caddy is an outer casing for a HDD. When you take out your HDD from the PS3, put it into said caddy and you then have an external HDD. I assume you have a 40,60 or 80 gig HD, why waste it when you take it out?
http://computers.shop.ebay.ie/Hard-Drive-Caddies-Enclosures-/86758/i.html

stephendevlin · 07-07-2010 02:32PM

Im using my 80gb from my PS3 in my Dreambox. I also have another hard drive which I bought an external case for (which I use for backing things up) Make sure its all on FAT32 and use SWISSKNIFE to format the hard drive as windows will not reformat anything bigger than 32gb. If its a brand new drive you also have to activate it (in windows device manager)

Kintarō Hattori · 10-07-2010 07:10PM

I'm sure it's been said but be very careful with the screws in the PS3, they are like butter and can be destroyed really easily. Make sure you use a correct fitting screwdriver and don't apply too much force.

eclipse05 · 11-07-2010 10:42AM

stephendevlin wrote: »

Im using my 80gb from my PS3 in my Dreambox. I also have another hard drive which I bought an external case for (which I use for backing things up) Make sure its all on FAT32 and use SWISSKNIFE to format the hard drive as windows will not reformat anything bigger than 32gb. If its a brand new drive you also have to activate it (in windows device manager)

True, windows won't format HDD for bigger partition than 32GB.
Around 2years ago I used Partition Magic 8.0 and I was able to get 192GB FAT32 for external drive and it worked perfect!
Now, I used a newer free application and it was able to format my external drive for 500GB in FAT32! :eek:
I thought there will be something wrong with it but it wasn't! I am playing 720p, 1080p movies from this drive, I made a backup of my PS3 drive and restore it without any problems at all!

stephendevlin · 11-07-2010 01:38PM

eclipse05 wrote: »

True, windows won't format HDD for bigger partition than 32GB.
Around 2years ago I used Partition Magic 8.0 and I was able to get 192GB FAT32 for external drive and it worked perfect!
Now, I used a newer free application and it was able to format my external drive for 500GB in FAT32! :eek:
I thought there will be something wrong with it but it wasn't! I am playing 720p, 1080p movies from this drive, I made a backup of my PS3 drive and restore it without any problems at all!

Only issues are HD are big files. FAT files system cant handle files bigger than 4gb

eclipse05 · 11-07-2010 01:44PM

Sure, but when converting videos to play to PS3 just thick box "cut file every 4gb" ... or something like that

MKV2VOB it's not a problem to cut files for FAT32

cabrwab · 06-09-2010 01:12PM

Finally got around to upgrading hdd today, some pain!

One of the screws appeared to be slightly rung when first installed the first threads on the screw where not in the best of shape, a long nose pliars was used to remove it!

Then came the restoring the back up id done!

The hard drive/media player i used to put the back up data on had an issue when the ps3 restarted at the start of the process.

Im glad i got a case for the hard drive that came out of the PS3 so i was able to copy over the back up info over to it.

Its currently restoring i hope it all goes well!!

Not having to delete the game data to play games is going to be great!

mayotobo · 11-09-2010 01:48PM

anyone have a good link to a free swissknife download? every one i look at requires a code

tman · 11-09-2010 08:44PM

http://download.cnet.com/CompuApps-SwissKnife-V3/3000-2248_4-10070864.html?tag=mncol

mayotobo · 11-09-2010 09:24PM

sorry but that one dosent work. it keeps saying that the program has stopped working....poo

johnmcdnl · 12-09-2010 09:34PM

I'm thinking of upgrading my 40GB drive to a 320gb drive around christmas time - but I know full well I'm gonna feck the screws up

anyone know where I could get a new set of screws that will fit in advance because I'm going to break these screws no matter how careful i am

Varik · 12-09-2010 09:39PM

johnmcdnl wrote: »

I'm thinking of upgrading my 40GB drive to a 320gb drive around christmas time - but I know full well I'm gonna feck the screws up

anyone know where I could get a new set of screws that will fit in advance because I'm going to break these screws no matter how careful i am

Be careful and don't force it, it's not going to get stripped by looking at it funny. I think Sony can give them free, or at least the do in the U.S and possible out of warranty.

cabrwab · 12-09-2010 10:53PM

Careful have the right screwdriver and a long nose pliers you'll have to get the screws out first is where I struggled.

Get a nice big hard drive its easy to do and dont worry you'll be fine but take your time

Notorious97 · 13-09-2010 04:20PM

Ok so i am nearly out of space on 40GB (500MB left on it!) and i was intending to trade in and put like 200 towards a new PS3.

From reading this thread it makes obvious sense to just buy a new HDD, costs half of what i would need. However i am an idiot for this as i havent done it before, if i buy a HDD from the ones recommended in this thread how do i format this to ensure it works with PS3. Also is it really as easy as stated to unscrew it (very carefully i can see) and put it in, close it back up and transfer datet from old HDD to new PS3 HDD provided i buy a caddy for old HDD?

Cheers for the help!

Varik · 13-09-2010 04:34PM

It'll format it the first time you turn it on.

It shows the format at 5:00 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2d3JCMHL4o

Notorious97 · 13-09-2010 04:46PM

Varik wrote: »

It'll format it the first time you turn it on.

It shows the format at 5:00 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2d3JCMHL4o

Thanks i will check this out when i get home!

Also on a side note, i currently have a 1TB external harddrive i have yet to use, can this be used via USB with PS3 or am i better off going with the plan to replace the internal harddrive with one of those recommended in this thread?

Varik · 13-09-2010 05:03PM

Notorious97 wrote: »

Thanks i will check this out when i get home!

Also on a side note, i currently have a 1TB external harddrive i have yet to use, can this be used via USB with PS3 or am i better off going with the plan to replace the internal harddrive with one of those recommended in this thread?

you can't install games or download dlc on the external ones

Notorious97 · 13-09-2010 05:10PM

Varik wrote: »

you can't install games or download dlc on the external ones

oh so its only useful to store movies and photos on then, internal it is. Right il haveto have a look into this upgrading myself business. No doubt il be back with problems haha

Cheers!

Notorious97 · 14-09-2010 11:16AM

F1ngers wrote: »

HDD requirements:
• 2.5" SATA (aka a laptop hdd)
• 9.5 mm height
• speed: 5400 rpm or faster
• cache: 8MB or more
• size/capacity: as much as you want

Get a caddy also, so that when you take out the HDD you can then use it as an external HD.

http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/catalog.cgi?view_product=1&id=21069&sid=14&cid=116&scid=305

The HDD in the link above is this one ok? It says the height is 12.5mm and not the standard 9.5, but this still works in PS3 40GB?

tman · 14-09-2010 01:05PM

mayotobo wrote: »

sorry but that one dosent work. it keeps saying that the program has stopped working....poo

Funny, I have the same problem with a pre-installed copy of Swissknife which worked perfectly when I last used it

I'm sure there are other apps out there that do the same but unfortunately can't recommend a free one... If you know a linux nerd they'll easily be able to format it for you as fat32 using gparted...

wcarey1975 · 14-09-2010 04:41PM

Notorious97 wrote: »

http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/catalog.cgi?view_product=1&id=21069&sid=14&cid=116&scid=305

The HDD in the link above is this one ok? It says the height is 12.5mm and not the standard 9.5, but this still works in PS3 40GB?

It needs to be 9.5mM or it wont fit into the drive bay

s-cogan · 15-09-2010 04:09PM

the neighbour recently got informed the his hard drive is knackered.
can anyone tell me what type/size is needed or where i can get one, or even how much twill cost??
sound out, lads.

donmeister · 15-09-2010 04:25PM

s-cogan wrote: »

the neighbour recently got informed the his hard drive is knackered.
can anyone tell me what type/size is needed or where i can get one, or even how much twill cost??
sound out, lads.

What your gonna need is a 2.5 inch sata laptop drive! Any size can be used but over 160gb would be good, there quite cheap now anyways, roughly €30-40 for 250gb or €70 for 500gb (if you wanna go nuts).

Check out adverts.ie for second-hand or amazon.co.uk for cheapest prices! Western digital are a very reliable brand. Hope this helps!

s-cogan · 15-09-2010 05:48PM

thanks donmeister

s-cogan · 16-09-2010 04:09PM

is this what i need??

hard drive

donmeister · 16-09-2010 04:37PM

s-cogan wrote: »

is this what i need??

hard drive

Thats the one! But its only €39 on amazon for the 320gb version! Here.

Upgrading PS3 Hard Drive.

Comments