SATA vs SATA II

[antijoke]

I am looking at buying a SATA-II HDD as external storage for my PS3 ( I cannot be bothered to faff around backing everything up from the internal etc) so I have decided to get a SATA-II drive with around 320Gb storage and use an external caddy to connect via USB.

I do however have a couple of questions:

1) The PS3 only recognises FAT32, so could I use a program to create a 320Gb partition under FAT32, or should I do smaller partitions?

2) If I get a caddy do I need to make sure it's SATA-II compatible (as the ones on Amazon) make no mention of being SATA-II compatible, they only say SATA USB caddy.

NVM: I should have read the rather helpful sticky.

But I still would like an answer about the FAT32 partition sizes.

 

[DragonQ]

1) Use MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition (freeware) to format one large FAT32 partition. The issue with FAT32 is its 4 GB file size limit but unfortunately, the PS3 doesn't support exFAT or NTFS as far as I can see, so you're stuck with it. Or, if you plan on using it for Windows/PC stuff too, you could make one FAT32 partition and one NTFS partition. Up to you.

2) I doubt any caddies sold now are SATA 1.5 Gbps. However, USB 2.0 is the bottleneck here (40 MB/s at most) so it doesn't matter anyway.

 

[antijoke]

Cool, thanks for the response. Think I'll go the half FAT32/half NTFS route.