Shinigami King Posted December 25, 2011 Report Share Posted December 25, 2011 I'm thinking about upgrading my PS3's HDD, right now I've got a standard 80GB HDD, and I wanna upgrade to at least a 320GB, but I need to some things cleared up before I go through with purchasing one.First off, if I buy it in-store from say.... Best Buy, is it already formatted in FAT32? If not, can I format it using the PS3's Format Hard Drive option?Also, any good recommendations for a Hard Drive, cheap & from Best Buy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RikuoAmero Posted December 25, 2011 Report Share Posted December 25, 2011 Make sure the hard drive you're getting is 2.5" (inches). Full size hard drives, 3.5", won't fit inside the PS3. And in case you're wondering, I saw a video recently where some guys replaced the hard drive with a SSD, and didn't see any improvement whatsoever in load times, so just go for hard drive. If you have a portable/mobile drive handy (the ones that use just a single USB cable, with no separate power cable), you can take the drive out of that and use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruffy Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Rikuo is correct you do need a 2.5" to have it fit.... but if your a lazy ass and you couldn't give to craps on where your HD is you can use a external HD... thats the reason sony made it like normal computer HDDs.. for any cheep HDD you can get a refurbished HDD.. the one i got was a Hitachi 1tb for 24bux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinigami King Posted January 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Basically my main question was: Can the PS3 format a hard drive that's not formatted in FAT32 by itself without partitions or will you have to do that on a PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpm23 Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 When you replace the hard drive in the PS3 it will partition, format, and restore a copy of the os to the hard drive for use.There is also a backup option in the system menu that will copy save data & media to an external drive, you then can restore it back to the new drive.here's a good step by step with pictures on how to swap out the drive to.http://www.gamespot.com/features/how-to-upgrade-your-playstation-3-hard-drive-6176090/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaman007 Posted March 14, 2012 Report Share Posted March 14, 2012 Buy any standard thickness 2.5" notebook drive and do not worry about what formatting the drive currently is, the Playstation will format the drive itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bezelbubba Posted April 6, 2012 Report Share Posted April 6, 2012 and dont switch drives between systems. Use the old drive as a backupa ps3 can die just like any other peice of hardware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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