Replacing PS3 Hardrive need clarification on backing up.

bigbilly50 · 24 Aug 2009 at 11:04

Ok, read the sticky but still not 100 % on sommething.

My 40GB is full to the brim and need to replace with something bigger - sounds easy enough.

Now I have some PSN games shared on friends accounts that I would prefer not to download again IE back up their accounts / and PSN games and restore them to my hard drive without re-downloading them.

Question is this - is a USB hard drive absolutley essential for this process or would largish USB stick / PSP do the job ?

I have a 16GB Flash Drive and my idea would be to delete everything off the PS3 that I can download again from my own account (so total on PS3 is under 16BG) then do the back up process.

Is this possible or for I need to get hold of an external USB hard drive ?

Cheers !

bigbilly50 · 24 Aug 2009 at 11:48

Thanks for the replies chaps , I'd just heard some conflicting information that you would only have the option of backing up PSN games with an external USB hard drive - not a USB pen drive.

bigbilly50 · 25 Aug 2009 at 09:46

Does anyone know if buying a 'SATA TO USB ADAPTER' (about a fiver) and use one of the Sata drives in my PC to back up the PS3 would work (using the PC to power the drive of course) ?

Cheers

bigbilly50 · 25 Aug 2009 at 10:25

TheVoice said:
The PS3 sees any USB storage (flash drive or hard-drive) as exactly the same so it won't make any difference. As long as you have enough space, there won't be an issue.

Brilliant - my 16GB usb pen drive should do the job easily then.

Cheers bud.