PS3 HDD upgrade recommendations please...
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I think I am going to get the Samsung as some people have mentioned it may be quieter and apart from that there is no real spec differences between the 2. I will let people know how I get on. At less than £80 it is too much of a bargain to pass up and I have dilly dallied about upgrading the HDD for far too long!!
As always, thanks for all the help in this thread.
rp2000
What is Heroes 
Anyway regarding the harddisk, I doubt there will be much difference, I would get the Samsung just because they were (are) known for their silence and with the PS3 I rate Silence > Speed.
Another point though, if you have 40GB of data how are you going to get that on a USB stick?
Anyway regarding the harddisk, I doubt there will be much difference, I would get the Samsung just because they were (are) known for their silence and with the PS3 I rate Silence > Speed.
Another point though, if you have 40GB of data how are you going to get that on a USB stick?
What is Heroes
Anyway regarding the harddisk, I doubt there will be much difference, I would get the Samsung just because they were (are) known for their silence and with the PS3 I rate Silence > Speed.
Another point though, if you have 40GB of data how are you going to get that on a USB stick?
Unfortunately it's only an option with a USB harddrive, however you can copy game saves etc over individually, which is what I'll be doing when i upgrade. I don't mind reinstalling games and re downloading content if it means i don't have to buy an external harddrive just to avoid it.
What is Heroes
Anyway regarding the harddisk, I doubt there will be much difference, I would get the Samsung just because they were (are) known for their silence and with the PS3 I rate Silence > Speed.
Another point though, if you have 40GB of data how are you going to get that on a USB stick?
I assume you can do it with a USB stick if it is bigger than the amount of data you have in the ps3 internal HDD. I have almost 50GB of data and largest USB key I own is only 8GB (You can get 32GB ones now).
I have a 80GB 2.5" USB laptop drive and a 250GB 3.5" USB drive so will have to use one of those.
I cannot believe you do not know what Heroes is (possibly it isn't big in The Netherlands?).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_(TV_series)
only read a few lines, I assume there is spoilers in that link.
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So if I swapped hard drives and just saved my "save games" Would I have to deactivate that Hd or is the ID thing for each paid game held on the Ps3 its self??
Does that make sense if not let me know and i'll try and explain it better
Does that make sense if not let me know and i'll try and explain it better
From my understanding it is held on the actual PS3. Although my licenses are all in use so if when I swap HDDs it doesn't work, then I am wrong!! In which case I will swap back HDD, deactivate, put in new HDD and activate. But I am certain that is not how it works.
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jolly good , looks like i'll be buying a new harddrive come pay day
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Perfect!!! (a bit of arial font and bold won't go amiss though
On Topic:
I think I am going to get the Samsung as some people have mentioned it may be quieter and apart from that there is no real spec differences between the 2. I will let people know how I get on. At less than £80 it is too much of a bargain to pass up and I have dilly dallied about upgrading the HDD for far too long!!
As always, thanks for all the help in this thread.
rp2000
Sorry for bringing an old thread up. How did your hard drive turn out? I'm interested in upgrading as well, but very concerned about buying a HDD that won't work or isn't particularly good.
Where there any problems with this Hard drive? or was it plain sailing?
Would any SATA HDD work ok? As I don't think I'll need that much space, I'm looking more around the 200-250GB mark.
Perhaps this or this.
Any suggestions.
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I'd be interested as well, I'm sure I read somewhere about some concerns over the 320gb 2.5" inch drives but I'll be damned if I can find it now.
No problems at all. Upgraded to the 320gb drive with no issues at all.
Took about 1 hour to backup data to an external USB HDD, 5 mins swap the disks, and 1 hour to restore data.
Tested all games from all accounts and all game saves/data all intact as well.
(mine is the 60gb ps3 for reference).
Post here if you have any specific questions.
Site I bought my hdd from still sells 3 different 320GB drives for between 70-80 quid. Bear that in mind as the ones you have linked to seem a but pricey to me.
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Wow! Thanks for the quick response.
That actually pretty much covers it, apart from the whole compatibility side of things, but I'm pretty confident that if I get any 5400rpm drive it should work ok.
I'm tempted to spend a little extra and go for the WD, as I've always had them in my PCs and never had a problem.
Thanks very much!
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Just bare in mind when it comes to restoring your back-up to the new hard drive you must use the restore function within the backup options and not the 'restore PS3' option
I'm going to be doing this with a nearly new PS3 with hardly anything on it, so I'm going to skip the back up part I think.