PlayStation 3 Hard Drive Upgrade (HOWTO)

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Video tutorial outlining the required steps to install a larger capacity hard disk drive in your PlayStation 3.

Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: November 27, 2006 at 11:35 am
Author: consolesource

Length: 00:02:05
Rating: 4.73
Views: 357733

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youssef2008salem (December 4, 2008 at 6:42 am)
if i change my hard drive for the ps3 would it do any thing to the ps3 in any way of damage
OctoberGrey (December 3, 2008 at 10:55 pm)
I have an external Hardrive that when i plug into the Ps3 it doesnt come up . but i also have a 2gb sony mp3 player which i only use for data and i put that in and it shows up . is there anything special i have to do to make the big hard drive work ?

1 more thing if i replace the hard drive in the system is the operating system on the hard drive or inbuilt to the machine ?
noacole (December 3, 2008 at 1:11 am)
Yeah it certainly is, I thought that was really, really generous of Sony. Sony has always been pretty customer friendly and have always made machines that last year after year,
cowboysrrollin (December 2, 2008 at 7:11 pm)
how do you get downloadedablecontent on ps3 for smackdown vs raw 2009
Spitefullxenos (December 1, 2008 at 1:54 am)
switching out your HDD is entirely covered by warranty its in the manual.
DICEMAN60 (November 30, 2008 at 6:35 pm)
well Sony makes 40gb 60gb & 80gb hardrives stock but i believe they stopped producing the 60gb version. & there are external USB hardrives you can purchase 4 ur PS3 so swapping the stock hardrive isnt neccecary.
ahhoiboy (November 30, 2008 at 4:10 pm)
my ps3 broke and it cost $160 to fix it. one tip i have for most ps3 owners out there if you swap out your hard drive you void your warranty and you need the original hard drive or sony will not repair your ps3. if you dont believe me call sony repair service. Also if you swap out your hard drive use a 5400rpm because a 7200rpm will break your system. i used a seagate momentus 7200.3 hdd and my system is broke.
ImpossibilityReason (November 29, 2008 at 5:14 pm)
Sort of. But it goes by bytes. Like 1GB is 1,000,000,000 bytes right? Well an actual 1GB is actually less then the bytes they give you. You still have the 60+ GB but it will just read at 55GB. Look at your HD properties carefully. They give you the amount that you pay for. Really they should clarify this problem.
athousandrivers (November 29, 2008 at 10:36 pm)
Lol they are 60 GB HDD's man. Before formatting.
white95sl2 (November 30, 2008 at 12:25 pm)
They advertise 1 billion bytes (1Gb not GB), which is the actual storage size. 1 billion bytes is not equal to 1 GB. 1GB is 1.073 billion bytes. a 60 billion byte hard drive is measured as 55.87 GB. In order to have a 60GB reading you would need 64 billion bytes. This all boils down to 8 bits in a byte, 1024 bytes in a KB, 1024 KB in a MB, 1024 MB in a GB. Now do the calculation and find out how many bits are in a GB. Yes, it's confusing and they should be labeled Gb not GB. Oh well...