Transfer psgroove installed backup hdds between 2 ps3s?

Hiya.

I searched but can't see this asked anywhere.

I'm wondering if anyone has tried this yet, for those people that have 2 ps3s and external hdds. Have you tried ripping the game from ps3#1 and then tried taking the hdd to ps3#2 to play their backups upstairs in the bedroom?

If it works, then opens up future possibilities of nas drives, docking stations etc to save having to make multiple backups of their games and save more hdd space.

Also....is ntfs support still being worked on for external drives?

Yes this has been confirmed to work

awesome news...thank you :)

I hope they manage to sort out NTFS for usb drives sometime soon.

Also, wonder if there is a way to adapt the internal ps3 drive so it can run externally - via an adapter or cable perhaps?

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Originally Posted by Midnight Tboy

awesome news...thank you :)

I hope they manage to sort out NTFS for usb drives sometime soon.

Also, wonder if there is a way to adapt the internal ps3 drive so it can run externally - via an adapter or cable perhaps?

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The problem is the PS3 will only recognize FAT32 formatted devices on the external USB bus. I believe this may be a function of the firmware. It's not just a matter of implementing NTFS, some serious reverse engineering needs to be done to get this to work or to be able to read the internal drive externally

aah right - gotcha

So any idea if the sony can in theory support HFS drives? I've never used a drive as HFS but I believe that can store 4gb+ files?

Otherwise I guess the only way that external will be usable for these games would be by having them as split-image files

How abt replacing ps3 hard with the external hard disk u want copy backup games and format it from ps3 and replace bk to external case, if this works let us know pls.

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Originally Posted by Midnight Tboy

awesome news...thank you :)

I hope they manage to sort out NTFS for usb drives sometime soon.

Also, wonder if there is a way to adapt the internal ps3 drive so it can run externally - via an adapter or cable perhaps?

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This is the cable needed (SATA to USB) to transfer files from a PS3 HDD to your PC. I would go with this instead of an external enclosure because there is no size limit.

Also, if you are going to upgrade your HDD make sure to get 2.5" and 5400rpm.

Peace.

This is only possible with an external hdd because if you change out internal drives then it makes you format them, loosing your backup. However with an external you can change as much as you want and dare I say it show it to the internet. (Illigal do NOT ever do this!)

So what you are saying is that u could theoretically backup a game with backup manager to an external HDD, then copy that game to another external HDD (or whatever medium), so u can play that game from HDD on any ps3 with the use of backup manager?

*EDIT*

Hmm, getting the idea were talking warez/pirated games here :chinscrat

is this allowed?

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Originally Posted by Midnight Tboy

awesome news...thank you :)

I hope they manage to sort out NTFS for usb drives sometime soon.

Also, wonder if there is a way to adapt the internal ps3 drive so it can run externally - via an adapter or cable perhaps?

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That's silly. It would be better to transfer the games to the internal hdd via the internet. Have you ever heard of ps3 media server? It would be like that except it would include games. All you would have to do is send the game to the hdd via the internet. That's pretty simple, and there are no additional costs.