Upgraded PS3 HDD today...

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I changed out the 60GB hard drive that my PS3 originally came with and upgraded to a Western Digital 500GB Scorpio Blue 5400RPM hard drive. It cost me a total of $50 shipped. It is the easiest console mod ever. It took about 2 minutes total. Just unsrew the hard drive and put the new one in. Turn on the machine and press x. I should have done this earlier. Now I jst have to spend the next two days redownloading all of my games and add-ons. If your one of the fat PS3 owners and you haven't changed out the HDD...you should. Now I have a fully backwards compatible 500GB PS3...that's awesome!!!
 
I completely agree. My 20GB original HD didn't last 2 years until it was full. At the time the largest one Seagate (original manufacturer) made was 320GB. I still have 200GB left :D
 
what do you put on there?

Mine is pretty empty.

... Altan
 
mine has a 750 gig internal and a 2 tb external

Unless you're pirating games or using it as a media center, why would you ever need that much storage space on your PS3?

Not that I care or that it's any of my business, but you opened the door :)
 
kids always scratch up the discs so i loaded all our games in hard drives and put away the discs

Xbox requires you have the disc in the drive even if running from hard drive. PS3 does not require that?
 
With the custom firmware most games can be run just from the hard drive a few games require you just to have any original in the drive. I keep an original in the drive that never comes out just in case.
 
From what i've read replacing the drive with a new one can also lower temps :D
 
As my son is 5 and I have shared parenting im finding that the mother pays no attention to the care of the discs so therefor game storage on a hard drive is my only option when im not around
 
Well as far as the large size, you'll probably find that larger HDDs are cheaper than smaller sizes, unless you are talking about the largest size available.

I'm wondering if its possible to just ghost a PS3 drive and the PS3 not know you even changed the drive except for it seeing more space.
 
From what i've read replacing the drive with a new one can also lower temps :D

My PS3 is running a lot cooler than it used to. It used to get hot enough that it was very uncomfortable to the touch...it's been running for two and a half days non stop downloading all my games and it is still cool to the touch. I'm impressed.

I'm wondering if its possible to just ghost a PS3 drive and the PS3 not know you even changed the drive except for it seeing more space.

I suppose if you remove the drive and use a laptop or PC to clone your old drive to your new one it should work just fine. It would save me some time instead of redownloading all of the games off PSN...interesting...
 
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I'm wondering if its possible to just ghost a PS3 drive and the PS3 not know you even changed the drive except for it seeing more space.
I've heard conflicting results doing this on a 360 HDD mod, but then again, that's 360...I've never researched this for PS3.
 
A sector copy should work, the only problem would be if the console kept the installed drive size in a ROM some where along with the drive serial number. I doubt I'll get the chance to play with this idea so I don't really know.
 
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