PS3 + External HD

Footballmad1973 · 20 Oct 2008 at 17:00

I have a large amount of music i wish to transfer to playstation 3 , i want to use a external hard drive via usb , is this possible ?

Thanks

orderoftheflame · 20 Oct 2008 at 17:00

Footballmad1973 said:
I have a large amount of music i wish to transfer to playstation 3 , i want to use a external hard drive via usb , is this possible ?

Thanks

Yes.

Windle · 20 Oct 2008 at 17:07

Has to be FAT32 though!!!

Footballmad1973 · 20 Oct 2008 at 19:00

So would i need to format HD to FAT32 ?

Streeteh · 20 Oct 2008 at 19:03

yus, PS3 refuses to recognize NTFS drives through USB.

Swordfish · 20 Oct 2008 at 19:03

Footballmad1973 said:
So would i need to format HD to FAT32 ?

Or, if the drive already has data on and your in a hurry, connect it to a PC and use 3rd party partition software to convert it.

Would reccomend that you backup and format fully though.

Footballmad1973 · 20 Oct 2008 at 19:52

i have found some external drives in black on ebay

Joebob · 20 Oct 2008 at 19:56

Footballmad1973 said:
i have found some external drives in black on ebay

naughty link

I would remove that link quickly if I were you.... OcUK sell external drives so it's competition!

I think this is more what your looking for anyway

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-168-MD

Scort · 20 Oct 2008 at 22:38

Also, iirc, FAT only allows a maximum partition size of 32 gigs, so you may need to have several partitions on this external drive.

Scort.

Streeteh · 20 Oct 2008 at 22:40

Scort said:
Also, iirc, FAT only allows a maximum partition size of 32 gigs, so you may need to have several partitions on this external drive.

Scort.

Dunno if that is the case with FAT, but it doesn't matter as it's FAT32 you can use with the PS3 which is fine all the way up to 8TB (yes, terabytes

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[timko] · 20 Oct 2008 at 22:44

Scort said:
Also, iirc, FAT only allows a maximum partition size of 32 gigs

Wrong

I currently have an external USB HDD that is 500Gb, 1 partition FAT32.

The only actual limitation that needs to be considered when using FAT32 is the 4Gb maximum size per file.

Joebob · 20 Oct 2008 at 23:59

[timko];12736174 said:
Wrong I currently have an external USB HDD that is 500Gb, 1 partition FAT32.

The only actual limitation that needs to be considered when using FAT32 is the 4Gb maximum size per file.

+1 I have a 320GB external drive formatted to fat32 in a single partition

Dutch Guy · 21 Oct 2008 at 08:33

Windows XP can only make a maximum FAT32 partition of 32GB, other formatting programs can make larger ones, my 160GB external drive has one FAT32 partition.

I just wish that there would be a way to make some folders on the PS3, when you have a lot of MP3's it can be a bit confusing when all the files are organised neatly on the external drive

panthro · 21 Oct 2008 at 08:54

My Western Digital 250GB external hard drive came formatted as FAT32 and works fine with my PS3.

spaceh · 21 Oct 2008 at 10:05

Just remember that you can't create playlists for music stored on an external HDD and I'm not aware of any games that can utilise them either... a bit annoying but not a show stopper... I have one

PhilGQ · 21 Oct 2008 at 16:46

have you considered a NAS attached to your router (if you have one), then you could access and update the media from your PC as well. It could also double of as a backup solution.

Just a thought, I know its not really what the doctor ordered.