Replacing PS3 Harddrive

Nuclearbaggins · 14 Apr 2007 at 20:04

james.miller said:
500gb external drive. its quite nice

How do you keep your ps3 so clean mine is a dust magnet

Daytrader · 14 Apr 2007 at 20:43

nice screen and setup m8, yeh your ps3 looks dust free, mine is terrible even after dusting give it a few hours and dust all over mine again

JUMPURS · 14 Apr 2007 at 20:54

ic1male said:
The only disadvantage, if you can really call it that, is that you won't get the video thumbnails in the XMB? Is that right?

The one i can think of is if you plug it into your PC you wont be able to see the 500GB right? as it needs to be a fat32 drive?

ic1male · 14 Apr 2007 at 21:02

What's the limitation of FAT32? I can see my 400Gb USB2 drive in Windows XP. You just can't format that much in one go as FAT32 - you have to use a special bit of software.

JUMPURS · 14 Apr 2007 at 21:07

i think windows will only format up to 32GB or something silly, but also iirc FAT32 only has a 4GB file size limit?

Soulja · 19 Apr 2007 at 16:11

I'm thinking of upgrading my HDD, would this one be OK?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-008-FJ&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=896

Soulja · 26 Apr 2007 at 17:25

Well i upgraded mine to 160gb, it was rather easy except for when i had to unscrew the cage from the hdd. I've got a 160gb hdd spare aswel, don't know if i should keep it for the future when my current one gets full(account stays on the system) or just sell it

shiner · 26 Apr 2007 at 18:15

If you change the HDD does that invalidate the warranty?

Johnnytoxic · 26 Apr 2007 at 18:17

shiner said:
If you change the HDD does that invalidate the warranty?

No as you can just pop the original one back in.

shiner · 26 Apr 2007 at 18:27

Excellent wondered if they'd put the silly stickers like on Xbox 1 above screws to void warranty