Well as some of you may or may not know I got a free PlayStation 3 when I bought my Bravia TV a couple of months ago. However, the model was only the 40GB PS3... and after a couple of months of gaming it filled up pretty damn quickly.
So after reading up online about the PS3 Hard Drive I decided it was high time I performed a DIY job on the darn thing!
I cracked open the case (or at least, the Hard Drive bay of it) and was shocked to find my version of the PS3 was different to all the ones I've seen online. Nevermind though, it was even easier to manage. Out came the tiny and slow 40GB 5400 RPM drive, replaced with an awesome 250GB 7200RPM drive!! Cost me only $110.
Now I am currently restoring all my backed up data via PS3s awesome backup utility.
If anyone wants me to post a guide on how to do it I will be happy to do so, and I highly recommend this DIY upgrade if you want more disk space on your PS3 (and a bit more speed when loading and saving games!).
-Cub. =o)
So after reading up online about the PS3 Hard Drive I decided it was high time I performed a DIY job on the darn thing!
I cracked open the case (or at least, the Hard Drive bay of it) and was shocked to find my version of the PS3 was different to all the ones I've seen online. Nevermind though, it was even easier to manage. Out came the tiny and slow 40GB 5400 RPM drive, replaced with an awesome 250GB 7200RPM drive!! Cost me only $110.
Now I am currently restoring all my backed up data via PS3s awesome backup utility.
If anyone wants me to post a guide on how to do it I will be happy to do so, and I highly recommend this DIY upgrade if you want more disk space on your PS3 (and a bit more speed when loading and saving games!).
-Cub. =o)
Yes, but this was a smaller 2.5" notebook drive... they are much more expensive, especially seeing as 7200rpm is fairly new tech in 2.5" drives... unlike your normal 3.5" desktop HDDs to which you are referring.freepizza wrote:Overpriced oversees electronics. I just bought a 500g 7200 for 60 dollars. Is there an exchange problem I am not considering?
Mind you, a 500GB 3.5" desktop drive is still around $100 here. Computer parts have always been more expensive here... you guys don't know how lucky you have it.
-Cub. =o)
Cub you got plenty of friends here in the states, why not get someone over here to get it for you cheaper and just mail it to you when you need/want something like that???
For things like that, Paypal is a beautiful thing, among other ways to transfer money on the net...
For things like that, Paypal is a beautiful thing, among other ways to transfer money on the net...
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Yeah, but you can also attach a 3.5" HDD if you like, and just have it sitting outside the case. Just get a SATA extension cable and whack that in there, add and external power supply extender to power the HDD and put it in some kind of enclosure or silicon case and you can have as much as 1TB on the PS3. Perfect if you run Linux on the machine and want to copy over your BluRay or DVD collection... although that's not a lot of BluRays to he honest, haha.lotus_j wrote: Sounds like it wants a NB HD though.
The PS3 I have is a later generation model which uses the Seagate drives... and the model which I upgraded it with is almost exactly the same (aside from the capacity) so hopefully it will be fine. Only time will tell I guess.
Baf, thanks for the offer. When our exchange rate was fetching pretty much 1:1 with the US dollar (about 6 months ago) I did do quite a bit of buying, seeing as I got to save hundreds... but after the current market crisis we are at a 5 year low of fetching only 65c!
...so it's really not that beneficial at the moment.-Cub. =o)