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Mysterious PS3 eSATA adapter promises massive HDD storage {Joystiq Playstation}
Feb 3rd 2009 8:49PM i believe you are able to back up game data to a usb hard drive before swapping out internal hard drives. i could be mistaken, however with protected content such as purchased songs from singstore or for rock band or guitar hero. it is a good question.
what I am pretty positive about is that you cannot transfer bought movies from hard drive to hard drive.
can anyone chime in on this? perhaps ask ps3faboy has answered this or maybe this is prime material for them.
Mysterious PS3 eSATA adapter promises massive HDD storage {Joystiq Playstation}
Feb 3rd 2009 8:46PM this is true: game data and installs is stored on your internal hard drive. the utility of an external hard drive is virtually limitless storage for media. One of the best features of the ps3 is its ability to play virtually all video formats (no mkv - srry anime fanboys). basically what this does is allow you to download, buy, or rip as much video content as you want and have it at your fingertips playing on your nice big hdtv.
sony also incorporated great photo album support and recently released a cool photo app that sits on your XMB. you can plug in an external hard drive that you store all of your photos on (if youre a photographer) and, again, show them off on your nice big tv.
best part about usb hard drives is that you can also plug them into pretty much anything else. well, except xbox 360's.....
basically what this comes down to is: limitless storage of any file type you want.
Mysterious PS3 eSATA adapter promises massive HDD storage {Joystiq Playstation}
Feb 3rd 2009 5:30PM I have an hitachi travelstar 7k320 hard drive in my ps3. load times are "laughable" as you have so put. it is a 7200 rpm hard drive that has the same power requirements as 5400 rpm hard drives. did I mention that it has 298 gigs of space after format?
having a 10k or 15k rpm hard drive in a ps3 is pointless. the firmware (operating system) is not stored on the hard drive, rather in some kind of solid state memory on the main board. boot times are not affected by hard drive selection. the read rate of a 7200 rpm hard drive is more than adequate for the ps3.
perfect solution: buy a 7200 rpm 2.5" sata hard drive and put it in your ps3. choose any size you would like. then, buy an external hard drive that plugs in via usb so you can easily transfer media from computers to the ps3.
I personally just got a huge internal hard drive and either copy content over dlna or stream over dlna.
Mysterious PS3 eSATA adapter promises massive HDD storage {Joystiq Playstation}
Feb 3rd 2009 5:11PM just buy a capacious 2.5" sata hard drive from any online computer parts retailer, I suggest newegg. you dont have to give up any backwards compatibility to get a bigger hard drive. sony allows you to replace the supplied hard drive at any time without voiding your warranty.
Mysterious PS3 eSATA adapter promises massive HDD storage {Joystiq Playstation}
Feb 3rd 2009 5:09PM mildly useful
post scriptum: Growing Pains {Joystiq Playstation}
Feb 1st 2009 10:48PM what is the address for the ps3 mobile site?? i used to read ps3 fanboy on my mobile phone's browser but that seems to no longer work.
A look back: our predictions for 2008 {Joystiq Playstation}
Dec 30th 2008 7:55PM heres to hoping killzone 2 is everything resistance 2 wasnt. r2 must have been one of the biggest disappointments of the year (gaming wise) for me. LBP was great, the movie download service is good, but they REALLY need netflix or blockbuster streaming. I am really jealous of 360 owners mostly because of this.
Home servers will be up 'early PM' GMT with open beta {Joystiq Playstation}
Dec 11th 2008 3:41PM its up! downloading a 77 mb file right now. had to turn my ps3 on and off a few times to get it tho.
Home servers will be up 'early PM' GMT with open beta {Joystiq Playstation}
Dec 11th 2008 3:00PM can we just get a new story on the front page once home goes live?
the refreshing of this page blows.
Home servers will be up 'early PM' GMT with open beta {Joystiq Playstation}
Dec 11th 2008 1:38PM sony is sneaky. here is what I think has happened over the last few months.
as sony released new features via firmware updates, people continually complained about slow download times. perhaps not all of these downloads were just for the firmware. sony must have been preloading home onto people's ps3s in small installments, which limits network strain the day home goes live.
we have all had home on our ps3s (in part) for a while now.
if this is what sony did, its smart of them. its what valve does for the release of some major games on steam. you can buy and preload the game but you cant play it until the activation date. the only real difference is that no one knew that home was being loaded onto their systems. i wish i had kept track of hard drive space after each update.
of course this is just speculation - i have no contact with sce of any region.
