AC-Raven

ok, i'm looking to buy a bigger hardrive for my ps3, are there any specs that i need to look at to make sure its compatible? thanks for the help

Gabriel013

The only thing I'ma aware of is a certain type of formatting you need. I can't recall exactly what it is but one of the guys here should definitely be able to help. My external HD won't work unless I reformat and that ain't going to happen!

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bamf

The PS3's internal HDD is a 2.5" SATA 5400rpm, its the same type you find in Laptops/notebooks. Make sure its not an IDE HDD and the speed isn't 7200rpm. It might be possible that a 7200rpm will work but the PS3 may only run it at 5400rpm anyway and 5400rpm one are cheaper. I do not know what the max size is for the PS3 but you find the max size for these HDD's are 250gb. I just looked at my email to activate my account for these forums and seen that I have an email for my HDD I just ordered tellling me there out of stock for a few days, bummer. Its a Fugistu 160gb 2.5" 5400rpm SATA notebook HDD for £60 ($120) thats including P + P. I think its a good price, hopefully.
There are many insatallation guides around and its simple, the PS3's manual has instruction but then it give you legal documentation about how its possible you could lose your warranty. So I suugest swap the HDD back if you ever need to use the warranty.

Gabriel013

Thanks for the info bamf and welcome to the forums.

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bamf

Thanks Gabriel. I've been coming to the site for the news and reviews but never bothered about the forums. I was always a regular in GT forums and then recently in G.A.P.

I do like it in here as its not overcrowded where there a hundreds of new posts a minute with people asking the same questions, i.e. 'whats better PS3 or 360?' they just want to start flame wars. Or they go into PS3 forums and ask if they should trade in their 360's for a PS3? They ask the question in a PS3 forum, its obvious what answer they'll get?

Gabriel013

There are a selection of regulars here and a spattering of less frequent posters. We're always happy to see intelligent and informed people sign up and contribute and from your posts I've read so far you should fit in really well.

While we're on the issue of harddrives, do you know of any easy way to transfer your existing data to a bigger drive?

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AC-Raven

thanks bamf i appreciate the help