Hacking changing the internal hard disk

[Magus]

hello! i've bought a ps3 recently and it's internal hard disk is only 60gb,i tought that would be decent enough but i've soon realized that it's quite small and was thinking of upgrading to a bigger hard disk,as such i was wondering if doing so screws up in any way with rogero's and similiar stuff

or alternatively i guess i could get an external HDD and run the games from the external one? would i need to power up the external HDD separately or would it be powered by the ps3 itself?

 

[mechadylan]

There's no issues with after market internal hdds and cfw, if that's the question.

 

[nukeboy95]

google is your freind
https://support.us.playstation.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/362/~/upgrade-the-hard-disk-drive-(hdd)

 

[mschumacher69]

You shouldn't have any issues swapping your HDD if you're on Rebug or the latest Rogero CFWs. Only the early Rogero CFWs had issues re-installing when swapping the HDD.

 

[Coto]

beware of some hdd's with onboard crappy utilities (on firmware) like autosleep, idling and such. There are ways to turn those off, though.

 

[Kouen Hasuki]

beware of some hdd's with onboard crappy utilities (on firmware) like autosleep, idling and such. There are ways to turn those off, though.

Deffo this, especially if its a WD Green Drive the head park timer is like default of 7 seconds

 

[Magus]

You shouldn't have any issues swapping your HDD if you're on Rebug or the latest Rogero CFWs. Only the early Rogero CFWs had issues re-installing when swapping the HDD.

yeah this is what i was mostly worrying about... what about mounting an external HDD and running game from that? i just want more space to hold my games so it's not like i really need to swap the internal hard disk

 

[mschumacher69]

It works, but tbh, I like running my backups from internal because an external would take extra (physical) space, 1 of your USB ports (so you are left with one only) and you have to split files >4GB because of the FAT32 file size limitation.