Hard Drives That Work With PS3

[sallu]

bought a western digital essensial from pc world online resrve price £94.99 for a 2tb bargain only last week.

great there was a mistake in my post not 1tb it was 2tb wd hd essential £99

[sallu]

Until my PSJB broke I was using Western Digital 2TB My book Essential.
For internal I have a 750GB WD SCORPIO BLUE 2.5

More than enough for me because I'm just putting PS3 exclusives and fighting games.
I own the actual disc btw.. I just like owning illegal'ish items.

hey i just got my wd 2tb my book essentail may i know how did you remove the wd smartware software completly if you did and how did you format it to fat32

[glen70]

hi you need to format it to fat 32 using a standalone aplication i used guiformat.i use windows 7.

[sallu]

hi you need to format it to fat 32 using a standalone aplication i used guiformat.i use windows 7.

cheers thanks for the info will do that i also use windows 7 so great will it delete the wd smartware software too or will i need to find another way

[hypermetalsonic]

I'm using a Omega 640gb hdd..
(Originally just used with Wii, all 640gb). I ended up partitioning 320-ish for ps3, and 240-ish for Wii?

Meh, might as well make more room for ps3 games

[jawgee]

I thought the max size the PS3 will recognize is 1TB. Has that been increased to 2TB recently?

I remember seeing some discussion regarding HDD connection via eSATA so that an externally located HDD could be seen as an internal drive to the PS3. Which specific HDD/parts have people used to get that to work?

Thanks,
jawgee

[itsMoeyy]

I thought the max size the PS3 will recognize is 1TB. Has that been increased to 2TB recently?

I remember seeing some discussion regarding HDD connection via eSATA so that an externally located HDD could be seen as an internal drive to the PS3. Which specific HDD/parts have people used to get that to work?

Thanks,
jawgee

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB8628tuL50]YouTube - Replace the HDD of PS3 60GB(2.5inch) to 400GB(3.5inch)[/ame]

By the way, does anyone know a good brand for a 500gb+ internal 2.5 HDD that will not stutter?

[joehemi]

I'm just using the original 80gb for now with a 4 year old 160gb portable hd (usb powered) and it works great. Tomorrow my 750gb internal that I got for $80 should be here tomorrow.

The PS3 should be able to read 2TB external drives just fine since that is the largest you can format to FAT32. I have no idea how big their proprietary formatting will read on internal HDDs, although I've never really checked around.

[sallu]

for external drive do you have create a folder in it call GAMEZ folder or will the backup manager or open manager do it

[vcdking]

YouTube - Replace the HDD of PS3 60GB(2.5inch) to 400GB(3.5inch)

By the way, does anyone know a good brand for a 500gb+ internal 2.5 HDD that will not stutter?

Seagate 500gb. No problems whatsoever.