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Largest 2.5" hard drive for PS3?
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10. January 2009 @ 00:34 |
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Originally posted by z0diac:
Originally posted by marcusita:
You cant hook USB up to the internal SATA port,just get a normal non USB 3.5" HDD and connect it to the internal sata conection.
Hehe, I think you're missing our conversation - we were saying that external 3.5" drives via SATA looks a bit 'unclean'. That's why I asked if it was possible to use a external USB drive for primary storage (for installing games/demos/saved games/etc...)
I've never had one hooked up when I've installed stuff so I don't know if it sees the external device and asks you if you want to install to that location instead.
Originally posted by z0diac:
I've seen a slew of Youtube vids about upgrading the 2.5" hard drive in the PS3, but they all seem to go with a 100Gb or a 120Gb.
Is there any problem in the PS3 o/s seeing a 500GB drive? If I upgrade the thing tomorrow, I'm going to at least make it worthwhile, but I'd hate for the o/s not to be able to recognize a larger drive like that.
This was your original question in which i answered,as far as a USB drive for storing stuff when you install,the short answer is,no.
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KajNrig
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10. January 2009 @ 12:27 |
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I'd doubt it, because for one, the file system on external drives won't allow for anything larger than 4 GB (which, to my knowledge, is less than some games' installation requirements), and for another, I'm sure the read speeds would be greater on a direct SATA connector than on a USB line.
...plus the PS3 will see it as an external drive... so I'm sure there are lots of security reasons for not letting you save game data onto it, as well...
But that's all conjectural. I could be wrong.
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10. January 2009 @ 12:31 |
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Then it seems you have answered your own question and understood what i was telling you :)
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z0diac
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10. January 2009 @ 13:32 |
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Originally posted by KajNrig:
I'd doubt it, because for one, the file system on external drives won't allow for anything larger than 4 GB (which, to my knowledge, is less than some games' installation requirements),
You've got a weird external drive then :) My 250gb is format NTFS and quite happily stores 20+ GB files pulled off Bluray. :)
I think I'm just going to get a new 1 or 1.5 TB drive for my desktop, merge everything onto that (my current internal 250gb drive, and the files from my 250gb and 500gb external USB drives), then keep the stock 80GB drive in the PS3 and hook up the 500GB external USB to it. That way I can just bring the external into the room with the desktop, dump my big HD files onto it, then plug it back into the PS3 and play.
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z0diac
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10. January 2009 @ 13:50 |
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Actually it turns out the PS3 also cannot even read NTFS drives. So I know of absolutely no way to get it to read big files except for streaming. I just plugged my NTFS 250GB external drive into the PS3 and it didn't even show up.
Anyway, we're way off topic now :)
I think the biggest 2.5" drive for the PS3 is 500gb as that's the biggest ones I've seen for sale.
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10. January 2009 @ 17:26 |
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Originally posted by z0diac:
I think the biggest 2.5" drive for the PS3 is 500gb as that's the biggest ones I've seen for sale.
lol thats what i stated,but as i was saying,if you use a special connection to conect from the SATA point inside the PS3 to an external 3.5" 750GB HDD,the PS3 will be fooled into thinking its internal.
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Just a note,you can use a dual layer DVD to transfer files larger than 4GB to the PS3.
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10. January 2009 @ 17:45 |
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a bit late in to reply but... i have a 320 g installed in my 60 gig and i allocated all of it to the ps3 os. however it displays 260g/298g available. what in the world happens to the extra 20g's. i know some things are rsvp for os but there was never 20g missing on the 60g hdd. i'll reformat and partition if i ever want to or get around to installing linux.
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z0diac
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10. January 2009 @ 21:05 |
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Originally posted by marcusita:
Originally posted by z0diac:
I think the biggest 2.5" drive for the PS3 is 500gb as that's the biggest ones I've seen for sale.
lol thats what i stated,but as i was saying,if you use a special connection to conect from the SATA point inside the PS3 to an external 3.5" 750GB HDD,the PS3 will be fooled into thinking its internal.
hehe. Yes, I realize that anything connected to the PS3's internal SATA port will be seen the exact same by the PS3 as the stock drive. I think I'm just going to keep the stock 80gb and move my 500GB IOMagic USB drive to it. That external has a nice blue light identical in colour to the PS3 light on the right corner so it'll look ok next to each other :)
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Just a note,you can use a dual layer DVD to transfer files larger than 4GB to the PS3.
Yah, I put 2 .MKV files (each almost 4gb) onto a DVD-DL (UDF format) and the PS3 couldn't see anything on the DVD. I'm guessing it just can't even see the .mkv extension as a file at all.
Unfortunately, the PS3 can't read NTFS partitions, so formatting my 500GB external with NTFS won't allow me to put big files on that either, since NO files will be seen on it if it's ntfs. Grrr. Which basically means, all my large HD videos are going to have to be moved to the PS3 via DVD. Actually that makes the 500gb USB drive rather useless. GRRR!
WHat's the file system on the PS3 stock drive? I'm guessing it uses it's own proprietary file system that can accept storing files larger than 2GB/4GB ??? If so, looks like I might have to buy a big 2.5" drive and replace the internal afterall.
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10. January 2009 @ 21:18 |
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I guess the only thing you can do is split the movie files and use your external drive for that,the PS3's HDD system is unknow,it could perhaps be Extended FAT32,but knowing Sony they probably created thier own format.
I have read to day on Engadget a company will be doing 2TB 2.5" drives,though theses may fit and work in laptops im not sure if they will work on the PS3,if they did there is the price which would be huge.
On a side note i used to keep all my music,16.000 MP3's worth,and several movies on an 160GB drive untill it died,now i just stream from my computer or laptop.
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z0diac
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11. January 2009 @ 01:13 |
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Originally posted by marcusita:
On a side note i used to keep all my music,16.000 MP3's worth,and several movies on an 160GB drive untill it died,now i just stream from my computer or laptop.
Yah I would stream everything from here, except my big stereo is in the room with the computer - the PS3 has nice surround sound but not the big booming speakers the desktop is hooked up to. The only thing I need the PS3 for is movies, which of course really suck for streaming if they need to be transcoded. Or even if they don't HD is hard to stream wirelessly unless you have pretty much a 100% signal.
Not to mention my 500W power supply in my computer is almost maxed with all its internals and crazy video card which sucks as much as a friggin clothes dryer, so leaving the 'puter on 24/7 just isnt an option with electricity prices.
I think I'll just burn all my HD movies (divx/x264) to DL-DVDs and keep them next to the PS3. The only external hard drives that can hold the big HD video files need NTFS which isn't readable by the PS3, so unless I want to put in a huge 500gb 2.5" just to hold movies (which is a waste) it's not really worth it. I'll keep my stock 80gb for miscellaneous stuff and just keep all my movies on DVD.
Some day if I ever do a major renovation I'll have the PS3 next to the computer setup and just connect 'em via ethernet and use the desktop as a giant storage device for the PS3. :) Wireless just doesn't handle the bandwidth to stream HD.
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