:D:D:D

yeah i know but very excited...
got the package today.. went pretty easy. about 10min.

room enough for about 50 mkv files, or much less if i re-encode with full 1080p and loss less (20gig each) and plenty of tunes.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f36/fluffyrunnells/hddri010.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f36/fluffyrunnells/hddri008.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f36/fluffyrunnells/hddri003.jpg

umm... congrats, I guess?

WHooo Hooo! :rolleyes: Did this really need a whole thread dedicated to one person putting in a Hard Drive. With no problems or reason for discussion?

I'll have you 1up'd withing the week.

On another note, did you backup and restore your original? Any problems? What size was the image file?

You should change the title for "Yay so excited, I bought a 320GB HDD for my PS3"

Grats, post a pic of system information and it showing drive space and how much is free.

I assumed this was a new model used to cancel out a potential price cut.

Reduce the 80GB to $299
Reduce the 160GB to $399
Release the 320GB for $499
Discontinue the 80GB model

Sound familiar?

I'll have you 1up'd withing the week.

On another note, did you backup and restore your original? Any problems? What size was the image file?


did not back up, just downloaded new firmware on thumb drive, and installed it. no problems, was pretty fast...

Grats, post a pic of system information and it showing drive space and how much is free.

290 free after formatted it.

WHooo Hooo! :rolleyes: Did this really need a whole thread dedicated to one person putting in a Hard Drive. With no problems or reason for discussion?



yeah pretty excited........ sorry to be such an azz.......:confused::rolleyes:

Just so you know... it takes over 2 days to restore 220 GB. One time my ps3 had to rebuild its database and I lost all my folders/albums. Instead of re-inputting all the info again, I decided to restore a recent backup. Maybe it's because of my choice in external HDDs, but it takes a helluva long time. So instead of upgrading to a 500 GB HDD as originally planned, I have been erasing demos/videos on my 250 GB HDD as needed.

You should change the title for "Yay so excited, I bought a 320GB HDD for my PS3"

Agreed, I mean I have a 500GB PS3... yes its true!:)

Did you have any problems getting the nails out of your previous hard drive? I've heard that needle nose piers might be needed for the job.

Congrats! I need to do the same thing, but for me it would be to keep ALL the demo's on it.

One of the great advantages of the PS3 over the xbox 360 is the ability to cheaply upgrade your hard drive when the bigger HD becomes available to the consumer mkt. When the PS3 first launched, I believe 200g was the biggest and now we can do 500, or more, don't know!:cool:

Did you have any problems getting the nails out of your previous hard drive? I've heard that needle nose piers might be needed for the job.
LOL you beat me to it. I was going to ask the same thing.

Did you have any problems getting the nails out of your previous hard drive? I've heard that needle nose piers might be needed for the job.



what the heck are needle nose piers..??????????


never used them before, must be a special tool when you buy them at wal*mart...:D

what the heck are needle nose piers..??????????


never used them before, must be a special tool when you buy them at wal*mart...:D

Vince,
Is that you...

Vince,
Is that you...
It could be, is ditch a multi millionaire with millions in property and a legend in his own mind? Who cashed out of the stock market and retired to NH? Oh wait cant be, Vince wouldnt last long in NH, especially in the woods.

It could be

Vince, you up grading the HD..
again:eek:

:cool:

I must be a special tool when you buy me at wal*mart...:D

He called himself a tool and then proceeded to say that he can be purchased at wal*mart.

That's funny right there :D

what the heck are needle nose piers..??????????


never used them before, must be a special tool when you buy them at wal*mart...:D

Can someone google an image for him?

Do you have any Brazilian hooker stories, Ditch?

You didn't show them the money shot of Cpt. America!

Just so you know... it takes over 2 days to restore 220 GB. One time my ps3 had to rebuild its database and I lost all my folders/albums. Instead of re-inputting all the info again, I decided to restore a recent backup. Maybe it's because of my choice in external HDDs, but it takes a helluva long time. So instead of upgrading to a 500 GB HDD as originally planned, I have been erasing demos/videos on my 250 GB HDD as needed.

that can't be right, can it?

I just uploaded over 100gig to a fat32 drive on my computer and it took around 30 min. Double that takes 2 days on a ps3?

Sure it wasn't a USB1.0 standard drive or something?

that can't be right, can it?

I just uploaded over 100gig to a fat32 drive on my computer and it took around 30 min. Double that takes 2 days on a ps3?

Sure it wasn't a USB1.0 standard drive or something?


Uploading to a drive from your computer is different than restoring a backup. Don't forget that the PS3 uses its own encryption, and stuff. It's the stuff that gets ya.

Uploading to a drive from your computer is different than restoring a backup. Don't forget that the PS3 uses its own encryption, and stuff. It's the stuff that gets ya.

True, but you'd at least think the encryption is optimized for the cell processors....

And if compressed, the compression algorithm is the same. There's no reason 200GB should take 2 freaking days! (other then laziness, or stupidity).

that can't be right, can it?

I just uploaded over 100gig to a fat32 drive on my computer and it took around 30 min. Double that takes 2 days on a ps3?

Sure it wasn't a USB1.0 standard drive or something?

The first 75% takes a reasonable 6-7 hrs, but the last 25% slows down to a crawl. I use a 1TB WD MyBook Essential. I was hoping someone else could chime in, because you're not the only one who thinks this is rather bizarre. I like to keep all my demos and movie trailers, but no longer feel it is practical to do so (even though I am willing to continually upgrade my internal HDD). I guess it's not often that you have to restore, but still.... If someone has a different experience, please share.

How much did the 320gb HDD cost? Also, why a 5400 rpm instead of a 7200 rpm?

I'll have you 1up'd withing the week.

On another note, did you backup and restore your original? Any problems? What size was the image file?

Please post up after you do this...so I can 1 up you on your HDD size:D

Welcome to the party, pal. :p

How much did the 320gb HDD cost? Also, why a 5400 rpm instead of a 7200 rpm?

I just got one for $74.99 shipped. 7200rpm drives have a habit of overheating inside PS3s. A 320GB 5400rpm drive will be faster than the stock drive, as much more data passes under the heads per revolution.

that can't be right, can it?

I just uploaded over 100gig to a fat32 drive on my computer and it took around 30 min. Double that takes 2 days on a ps3?

Sure it wasn't a USB1.0 standard drive or something?My back-ups and restores from a 320 internal to a 160 external have been routinely taking about 1 hr, 10 min (each way) for approx 60 gb of data. Not anywhere near the 2 day mark. :confused:

Great, welcome to my world.

Now get one of these:

*Edit* Link updated, posted wrong model.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817816003

Does that work well?

Please post up after you do this...so I can 1 up you on your HDD size:D

Will do :)

For those who are asking about replacing the harddrive. I would recommend using pliers to pre-loosen them. They strip easily, I have a computer set of screw drivers and still managed to strip one.

For those interested my 60gig HD was about full. It took about 1.5 hours to backup and then about 1.5 hours to restore. But physically swapping the HD was about 4-5 minutes. Would've been 2-3 if I hadn't stripped one.

7200rpm drives have a habit of overheating inside PS3s.


So when should I expect mine to overheat :confused:

60gb model with 320gb 7200rpm Hitachi drive.

But only 263GB free before install anything on PS3 since the OS reserved another 27GB out of the 290GB formatted. And even less after installed a few Capcom games since most require another 5GB disk space per game.

PS3 is like PC all over again that needs so much disk space to play games.


290 free after formatted it.

Great, welcome to my world.

Now get one of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817155704

Does this work well? I have the 60GB drive from my PS3 just sitting around, I may get this and toss it in there.

According to the product overview at Newegg, the enclosure is for IDE HDD.

You need an enclosure that for 2.5" HDD SATA HDD.

Most SATA enclosures will work with PS3 SATA HDD but some require the enclosure to be connected with both USB end to the PC USB ports for extra power.

It's difficult to know which enclosure only need one USB end to the PC port without trying it.

I have several enclosures. Some only need to be connected to single USB port while others need to be connected to two USB ports for extra power.

My recommendation is get an SATA HDD enclosure that comes with two headed USB cable.


Does this work well? I have the 60GB drive from my PS3 just sitting around, I may get this and toss it in there.

I have an extra 250GB SATA HDD at home (which I removed from my new HP laptop - I threw a 500GB in it right away). I'm considering throwing the 250GB into my 80GB PS3. I have the little screwdrivers which work well for laptops but don't have the torx drivers. Does the PS3 use torx screws or the standard little ones?

Does this work well? I have the 60GB drive from my PS3 just sitting around, I may get this and toss it in there.

Sorry, posted the wrong model. Yes, it works EXCELLENT! I carry it around in my laptop case and most of the time, I hook it up to the PS3 to watch ripped movies. It's great.

This is the one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817816003

Thanks to jikkjack for the recommendation.

http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/17-816-003-05.jpg

http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/17-816-003-07.jpg

I have an extra 250GB SATA HDD at home (which I removed from my new HP laptop - I threw a 500GB in it right away). I'm considering throwing the 250GB into my 80GB PS3. I have the little screwdrivers which work well for laptops but don't have the torx drivers. Does the PS3 use torx screws or the standard little ones?

standard philips. Small, with soft metal.

I have that same enclosure, and it works perfectly. I put my 60gb ps3 HDD in this thing...worth getting if you have an extra HDD laying around

I wish Microsoft would allow user upgrades to hard drives of any size with their Xbox 360. If they did, I'd have a 500 gigger in there immediately. But, alas, I can only hope for change. :(

Thanks,
jawgee

Can someone google an image for him?

Do you have any Brazilian hooker stories, Ditch?

No, but I heard he dislikes Africanized bees because they're lazy and steal from other bees. Also, he accidentally deleted his MGS4 demo. :rolleyes:

I wish Microsoft would allow user upgrades to hard drives of any size with their Xbox 360. If they did, I'd have a 500 gigger in there immediately. But, alas, I can only hope for change. :(

Thanks,
jawgee

tell me about it. With all those game installs and BSG HD episodes on my drive, it is over half full. Hopefully one day they will allow it...if they want profit, sell me a $50 enclosure.

I restored 40GB to a 7200RPM drive in PS3 and took 3-4 hours.


True, but you'd at least think the encryption is optimized for the cell processors....

And if compressed, the compression algorithm is the same. There's no reason 200GB should take 2 freaking days! (other then laziness, or stupidity).

I wish Microsoft would allow user upgrades to hard drives of any size with their Xbox 360. If they did, I'd have a 500 gigger in there immediately. But, alas, I can only hope for change. :(

Thanks,
jawgee

tell me about it. With all those game installs and BSG HD episodes on my drive, it is over half full. Hopefully one day they will allow it...if they want profit, sell me a $50 enclosure.

It can be done, although its not as easy as the PS3 swap, and you can only go up to 120 gig as of now. You also have to buy a certain model of HDD, Google it and you'll find what you need. Its really not that difficult, and only costs around $50-$60.

Accessories profit. Ever wonder how Microsoft can afford to sell the Arcade mode for $150.

If Microsoft does have 500GB HDD option, they can't see it for $400. It would have to be around $250-300 and makes 120GB too expensive at $150 and they would have to lower 120GB down to $100 or less.

High markup in accessories are the easiest profit. If we want it, we just have to buy it at whatever cost.

Personally, I still prefer X360 way of not requiring game to install to HDD. I only install games to HDD if I chose it, not forced to install. I play older games every so often and I hate having to waste 3-5GB of disk space on my PS3. Deleting the game install data is so impractical since it takes a while to reinstall the games that I only play to play for a short while each time. So, I had to upgrade to a larger HDD on my PS3 which increased the total cost of my PS3. I never felt having only 20GB HDD on my X360 if I don't install any game.

I hate to say this, because of the large game install size on many PS3 games (HAWX is 5.6GB install), I have been buying more games on X360.


I wish Microsoft would allow user upgrades to hard drives of any size with their Xbox 360. If they did, I'd have a 500 gigger in there immediately. But, alas, I can only hope for change. :(

Thanks,
jawgee

:D:D:D

yeah i know but very excited...
got the package today.. went pretty easy. about 10min.

room enough for about 50 mkv files, or much less if i re-encode with full 1080p and loss less (20gig each) and plenty of tunes.



Will the PS3 play mkv files right off the drive?
I thought they had to reencoded and streamed like with PS3 Media Server.

Please see my thread "1 TB PC, Yes it's true" over in the PC gaming forum.

Will the PS3 play mkv files right off the drive?
I thought they had to reencoded and streamed like with PS3 Media Server.



download mkv2vob its free, and drag the mkv (x264 files) in the box, and it will mux them into a vob, and they work fine, no issues.

How much you want for those styrofoam peanuts?

How much did the 320gb HDD cost? Also, why a 5400 rpm instead of a 7200 rpm?

Probably for the same reason I put a 5400 320gb in mine.

There really isnt much of a point in spending the extra cash on a comperable 7200rpm HD since the performance doesnt increase bye much overall.

From what Ive, read about the only time you see anything noticable is during an inital game install and even then were talking about less than a few minutes difference. Almost no increase on actuall game booting, regular usage etc.

So really the slower factory spec is still speedy, uses less juice and runs a bit cooler [ doubt cooling would be any issue though since its about 2 degrees f more than a 5400 ]

I think I paid about $75.00 for my WD Scorpio 320gb. im looking forward to the terrabyte 2.5 drives when they hit the market :)

Bye the way I had no screw issues at all, I think the key is to use the proper size driver and go easy since the screws are pretty soft.

I recently installed a Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT 500GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136314), upgrading from a 120GB HD for just $100.

Bye the way I had no screw issues at all, I think the key is to use the proper size driver and go easy since the screws are pretty soft.

So, you had the correct set of piers for the nails? Awesome.

So, you had the correct set of piers for the nails? Awesome.
IIRC he had to google them

I'm glad the process went smoothly so he could play the MGS4 demo set in the jungle.

I recently installed a Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT 500GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136314), upgrading from a 120GB HD for just $100.

How many usable gigs you have left after format?

465gb after format.

I recently installed a Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT 500GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136314), upgrading from a 120GB HD for just $100.

Do you ever get the HDD error message because it is a 3.0gb/s HDD?
I thought I read here that that happens with those and not to the 1.5gb/s HDDs.

How this thread title has yet to be mod edited is truly beyond me.

Do you ever get the HDD error message because it is a 3.0gb/s HDD?
I thought I read here that that happens with those and not to the 1.5gb/s HDDs.

i did initially, but putting in a hdd jumper over the 2 pins on the HDD forces 1.5 gb/s and eliminates that problem.

465gb after format.

Do you ever get the HDD error message because it is a 3.0gb/s HDD?
I thought I read here that that happens with those and not to the 1.5gb/s HDDs.

465GB sounds about right. I recovered from a nearly 80GB backup and can't remember the exact amount just after formatting.

No errors so far. Honestly didn't know of the issue before hand. The manufacturer's site mentions the interface goes UP TO 3.0gb making me think it's 1.5gb while running in the PS3.