Hardware Upgrading your hardrive

[dracosson]

So I bought a 80gb cfw that will be here in a few days and was thinking about upgrading it with a new hard drive or an ssd IF it benefited from in the future.
I know usually the consoles didnt benefit from ssd but thought might from the hyrbid or a newer drive given the size of games.

I know seagate has the firecuda sshd drives they don't seem to bad in price. Looking for opnions all I have laying around is a 5400 120gb hdd which was ok in my last ps3 but I would prefer a bit better loading.

 

[Hayato213]

A 1TB would be good enough for a lot of games, 2TB would be overkill.

 

[dracosson]

Yeah I found a post it was limited to 1.5tb. Was thinking a 500 or 1tb depending on what prices I can find.
Or taking a 250gb ssd from my desktop and putting it in.

Either a 250gb Crucial MX 300 or Transcend (forget model) 250gb.

 

[EmulateLife]

A 1TB would be good enough for a lot of games, 2TB would be overkill.

Well I have no idea if he's even talking about a hacked PS3 or not he didn't say but if he is you could play PS3, PS2 and PS1 games. I have a 750 gb internal and 1.5 TB external to fit all the games I wanted that's around 140 games it just depends on the person and how many games they're in to.

 

[Hayato213]

Yeah I found a post it was limited to 1.5tb. Was thinking a 500 or 1tb depending on what prices I can find.
Or taking a 250gb ssd from my desktop and putting it in.

Either a 250gb Crucial MX 300 or Transcend (forget model) 250gb.

There are 750gb model hdd also so you get 698GB before os is installed. Roughly 600+gb of space as opposed to 465GB of real space out of a 500gb model hdd, with roughly 400 ish space after the os.

Most ps3 games are like 15-20gb or so some bigger size and some smaller size. I have a 1tb in mine right now not really filled up.

 

[tbb043]

A 1TB would be good enough for a lot of games, 2TB would be overkill.

I dunno, depends how many games you want to keep installed. .5tb is nothing, 2tb sounds more roomy, not like overkill. Granted I use a 4tb external (not ssd), but it's nice to have so much space free, never have to worry about it filling up when I pop in a new game.

 

[tbb043]

A 1TB would be good enough for a lot of games, 2TB would be overkill.

I dunno, depends how many games you want to keep installed. .5tb is nothing, 2tb sounds more roomy, not like overkill. Granted I use a 4tb external (not ssd), but it's nice to have so much space free, never have to worry about it filling up when I pop in a new game.

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[Hayato213]

Yeah I found a post it was limited to 1.5tb. Was thinking a 500 or 1tb depending on what prices I can find.
Or taking a 250gb ssd from my desktop and putting it in.

Either a 250gb Crucial MX 300 or Transcend (forget model) 250gb.[

Well I have no idea if he's even talking about a hacked PS3 or not he didn't say but if he is you could play PS3, PS2 and PS1 games. I have a 750 gb internal and 1.5 TB external to fit all the games I wanted that's around 140 games it just depends on the person and how many games they're in to.

Yea it does come down to how much games he want installed / or iso running off an external hdd.

 

[EmulateLife]

Yeah some games like God of War, Uncharted are close to 50 gb and what was a pain for me is that PS2 games have to be installed to internal and the fact that most PS3 games need additional space to be installed to internal in addition to their game size. But I am also a hoarder even if I beat a game and never plan to ever play it again I want it sitting there lol. I guess I consider it like a trophy that I beat it or part of my collection.

Having said all that, I can't even imagine how expensive a 2 tb ssd would be if those even exist. I've never noticed any issues with loading on a regular hdd personally.

 

[dracosson]

Oh so ps3 can run them off usb also like a wii ?
The person I bought mentioned about transfering with fillezilla. I don't know about the modded ps3 scene yet beyond firmware and some the basic mod names.

 

[Attila13]

I'm interested in this as well.
I'd like to upgrade my PS3's HDD and would like to get the biggest possible supported HDD, because I have a lot of backed up games and would like to have the in one place.

I tried it with an external HDD, but didn't liked it at all, because I had audio stutters and a considerable amount of lag on games which were more graphically intensive, like God of War III or Ascension, but never had a problem while loading them from internal storage.

I saw some posts that 2TB is max, some posts that 1.75TB is max, and 1.5TB is max....
Does anybody have some experience with this?
I know that 1TB drives work flawlessly, but I could really use the extra 400GB(~ish) after OS install from an 1.5TB drive.

Thanks in advance for anybody who could reply.

 

[tech3475]

I'm interested in this as well.
I'd like to upgrade my PS3's HDD and would like to get the biggest possible supported HDD, because I have a lot of backed up games and would like to have the in one place.

I tried it with an external HDD, but didn't liked it at all, because I had audio stutters and a considerable amount of lag on games which were more graphically intensive, like God of War III or Ascension, but never had a problem while loading them from internal storage.

I saw some posts that 2TB is max, some posts that 1.75TB is max, and 1.5TB is max....
Does anybody have some experience with this?
I know that 1TB drives work flawlessly, but I could really use the extra 400GB(~ish) after OS install from an 1.5TB drive.

Thanks in advance for anybody who could reply.

They may be discussing external HDDs which have a 2TB limit.

Yeah I found a post it was limited to 1.5tb. Was thinking a 500 or 1tb depending on what prices I can find.
Or taking a 250gb ssd from my desktop and putting it in.

Either a 250gb Crucial MX 300 or Transcend (forget model) 250gb.

Just a reminder that the PS3 doesn't support TRIM.

 

[Attila13]

They may be discussing external HDDs which have a 2TB limit.

Nope. They were specifically talking about internal. And don't know accurately since which version of multiman, but now there is support for 4TB+ on external. I think that up to 6TB or 8TB is supported now, but don't quote me on that.
But I know for a fact that 4TB external HDDs work if formatted properly.

 

[tech3475]

Nope. They were specifically talking about internal. And don't know accurately since which version of multiman, but now there is support for 4TB+ on external. I think that up to 6TB or 8TB is supported now, but don't quote me on that.
But I know for a fact that 4TB external HDDs work if formatted properly.

Must be using a 'fake MBR' then unless GPT or multiple partition support has been added. Been a while since I dealt with the former.

Looking around, the only thing I've found so far is someone messing around getting a 2TB HDD to work but not using the full capacity.