Like the manual said, PS3 HDD replaced |
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What was it, only a few moments ago that we posted the "How to replace your HDD without voiding your warranty" scans from the PS3 manual? Well, the first thing some would do upon getting their hands on the PS3 for the first time is to load up a launch title and taste all that delicious PS3 gaming goodness. An intrepid PS3 owner, psmania, though, decided that the first thing she'd (yes she, maybe) do is swap out the 20GB SATA drive for, uh, she dunno, how about 120GB?
In her Korean-language post (yes, Korean) on Ruliweb.com she describes and pictures the HDD-replacement process. Now, we can't verify from here if she's done the real deal - not after an HDD capacity photoshopping bit cropped up on teh intarwebs - but by comparing these shots with the manual scans from earlier, we can be fairly confident that psmania just pimped her PS3 out big-time.
Enjoy the pictures of a PS3 enjoying six times its original disc capacity. The Read link below leads you to the Ruliweb in its original Korean post - hope you got a good web translator or a friend who knows Korean. And the userpic there's the reason we said she's a she (unless he's just using the pic to impress guys. Likely not).
UPDATE: Next, GameWatch decided to do an HDD swap of their own: 60GB for 100GB. Not as impressive as psmania's six-times pimp-up, but GameWatch does the honor of writing down the specifications of their swaps. For example, the 20GB PS3 uses Seagate LD25.1 HDDs, and the 60GB HDD is Seagate's Momentus 5400.2 SATA. The 100GB GameWatch uses is from the same Momentus family: the 7200.1 SATA 2.5".
You can read more about GameWatch's HDD swap at their site here (you'll need a translator for it, though). Beyond that, Here are their pictures of their own HDD swap:
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wow this is awesome. Imagine the possibilities
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Replacement HDD (2.5", SATA)
Phillips and slottet head drivers (+ and -)
1.Turn of the console, lay it on its sides, and open the lid labeled "HDD"
2.Remove the blue screw once the lid is open.
3.lift the handle and slide it to the right gently.
4.Remove the 4 silver screws from the sides
5.The model of HDD is Seagate's ST920217AS.
6.Install the Replacement HDD back onto the frame, screw it back, and slide the HDD back into the console.
Slide it to the left until you can feel that it's been connected. Screw the blue screw back in, and close the lid.
7.Restart the PS3, and the console will ask to Format the HDD. Choose "Yes".
8.Replacement HDD is recognised instantly.
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Pimp your PS3 with one of those, lol
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i believable the largest 2.5" sata drive is 250gb or so.
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I'm going to be campping out for mine and if I have the choice I think I might get myself the 20GB and just pop a 120 or 160GB in it.
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Now, imagine that you've been using your PS3 for about a year and are feeling cramped by the 60GB drive. You want to upgrade the internal drive but don't want to loose all your precious game-saves, purchased add-ons, etc. How do you transfer all that data to the new drive?
This all comes down to how Sony has chosen to format the internal drive. Did they use an existing format (FAT32, ext/3, etc), or did they roll their own proprietary format?
I hope the former, but if anyone has contact with someone brave enough to do this with their new PS3 system, I want to see some PS3 data saved to the internal drive, and then the drive removed from the PS3 and attached to a PC (running Win, OSX, and/or Linux). Attachement either directly to an SATA port, or to USB through an external HDD case. Can the data be copied off the drive? Can new data (like some spare mp3's on the PC) be copied to the drive and the PS3 able to recognize them? If the PC can't regonize the drive, can the PS3 recognize it through USB (with the removed PS3 drive in a USB Hard drive case), and able to copy the datas onto the new drive that way?
Thoughts? (And please no guesses, I want hard empirical data.)
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A) Is the formatting of the PS3 HDD proprietary and only understandable by the PS3, or something computers (Windows, Mac, and/or Linux) can understand.
B) Can the PS3 understand it's own formatted drive when it is attached externally through the USB ports, and can you copy data from the external (old PS3 drive) to your brand-spanking new and larger new PS3 drive.
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"What's different from Microsoft's implementation is that the hard drive is easily accessible via a special compartment on the console. Just a flip of the lid and a removal of a few screws is all that's required to separate the hard drive from the system. What's even more interesting is that Sony explicitly states in its Safety and Support manual that the system will accept any 2.5" SATA hard drive, which will eliminate any user cries of storage limitations like what Xbox 360 owners are experiencing. People getting (or stuck with) the 20GB version of the PlayStation 3 could easily upgrade to a drive that would surpass its more expensive older brother. This also opens up the opportunity of upgrading to a faster, 7200 RPM drive. At DailyTech, we've already attempted to use a 3.5" 320GB hard drive (with some creative cabling), and had no problem utilizing the new drive."
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Give it time and one will figure it out. I would say with the price of HDD's now, just spend the coin and get a larger one
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Do you think it would be possible with the latest PS3's?
Hopefully.
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