I'm thinking about upgrading my hard drive in my PS3 and am wondering if there is a capacity limit that is recognized. I can find that it needs to be 2.5 and 9.5mm thick for physical size and it's not recommended to go above 5400 rpm for heat issues, but I'm not seeing a capacity limit. If I put a 1 TB drive in would it be recognized? I've never shopped for a hard drive like this. Thank you for any help. :)

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Can't you stick a 1TB SSD in it? ¯\(ツ)

8 years ago
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Maybe? I don't have a SSD at all, so if I got one I'd put it in my PC before my PS3. It'd be nice to have. :)

8 years ago
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SSD is a waste in the PS3 and a waste of money on top of that when you can just get a external driver with a lot more space for a heck of a lot less

1TB SSD cost about as much as a 970 better of just getting with a 1tb usb it will do the same while costing a lot less.

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i dont know, if there is a internal ssd with 1tb in a 2,5'' format..

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ok, but the prize is 7x higher than a normal hdd ^^''

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¯\(ツ)

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Someone stuck a 4TB in theirs after cutting and bending some of the metal to make it fit. I've also seen people use Desktop hard drives externally by using SATA extension cables before.

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Wow! That's a crazy amount of space! :O

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That was PS4. PS3 doesn't support a hard drive of that capacity.

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My bad. I followed a few links and linked that one since it showed a modification and missed the "4". D'oh!

The infamous 2TB ceiling comes from a 512-byte cluster size and 32-bit addressing limitations (0.5 * 2^32/1024/1024/1024). Using larger clusters, like 32KB, you can increase that limit exponentially. The PS3 does appear to at least support external drives of >2TB in size if you format it with large clusters.

From a modding site (which I won't link because it contains piracy tutorials)

Hi there @DEFAULTDNB , guess what? I reformatted the drive from scratch to FAT32 with a 64kb cluster size still using miniaide fat32 formatter and it'S working as it should so far! All 3.63tb formatted size appear useable, copied 2.27tb worth of data to it and all works fine so far! games are playing fine off the drive! Not sure why this didn't work the first time but alls gud now....so yes the ps3 can read off and write to a 4tb external hard drive (real life experience) hope someone finds this thread useful. Thanks again.

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It tends to get bad load times with the larger HDD, but only issue I've heard

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Thank you. :)

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Running my PS3 with 1TB for years now it's fine. (^_^)

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:)

I'm thinking maybe this one. I don't need anything too fancy.

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Looks good you can definitely go for it :)

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Nice I think mine has a 750 in it, its the backwards compatible one so they stock HDD was shit.

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The day my 60GB version died the YLOD was a sad day ;__;
It was repaired from an external company not Sony but it died again 7 months later so I had to buy a Super Slim the Slim was already sold out. But I still own my PS2 Slim so I can still play the games. Hope you have more luck with yours but it's a good sign that it's still running.

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yep, working on beating DQVIII on it now. Its been a long time coming. Getting my guides and stuff so I can go back and beat a bunch of stuff I have been meaning to. Xenosaga 1-3 FFiX working on getting the plat for FFX on PS4

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I bought the original 40GB "fatty" when it released. 10 years ago I think? The original machine and HDD are still going strong, but I'd like to be able to download all my PSN games to it. 40GB doesn't hold much. :)

8 years ago
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Any size 2.5" SATA HDD should work (including solid state drives).

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Great! Thank you. :)

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To my knowledge, it is limited to a 1TB file system. While some larger drives may be used, the drive partition won't use the full drive capacity.

http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Harddrive

The maximum capacity supported by PS3 is 1TB (TeraBytes) note: this seems untrue as there are several people posting pictures of their external to internal drive mod with a size of 2TB, but so far no one has been able to confirm that, only to debunk it as fake.

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1 TB would be plenty of room. :) The prices seem reasonable as well.

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i'd suggest checking out SSHD's (hybrid disks) a little pricy compared to regular HDD's but you can feel the difference and they wont bankrupt you like a 1TB SSD would

so SSD's if you are rich, SSHD if you want better load times with plenty of storage as well and regular HDD's if you are poor as fudge

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I forgot about the hybrid drives. :)

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this is a video for the PS4 but the results should be identical with the PS3
http://www.tested.com/tech/gaming/459128-tested-playstation-4-hard-drive-vs-ssd-vs-hybrid-drive/

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Also a SSD is just a waste of money for the ps3 you would be better of putting in your pc.

The load times for games will not be a big enough difference to notice,boot up time will be better and the OS will over all run a bit smoother but do you really need it,is the OS that slow that your life is wasting a way while everything takes a split second to respond.

It is up to you though if you have money to waste get an ssd but any other hard drive would do just fine.

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I don't even have a SSD for my PC so I wouldn't get one for my PS3 before that. :)

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Question why you need so much HDD space on your PS3??

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For games. It keeps getting great ones for a dollar, like the Project Zero / Fatal Frame games. :D

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It's so true! The current "flash" sales have many great games. I'd like to be able to download all the ones I have to one drive.

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I'm annoyed at that sale, don't have the cash to buy a PSN gift card on Amazon.

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I haven't gotten anything either. There are a number I would like to get but don't have the wallet either. :(

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yes but your really sure that you need 1TB?? Idk for me the sweet spot should be around 500GB and save the rest for a upgrade the PC later. That's my humble opinion ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Not sure about Guppy, but I own several hundred digital purchases. My 320GB doesn't cut it. :P
http://pastebin.com/CEyU68LJ

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Hi, Delta, yes of course if you have all those games digital you need a bigger HDD for sure. I have like 15 games and like 5 are digital so for me 320GB more than enough. But bah long time I don't play on my PS3 I mostly watch series and play some games on my PC. I was a big fan of God of War until I get bored. I have a Xbox 360 as well but got RROD so fast less than a year casual use. But since I bought it used din't had guarantee.
I had a couple of games and lots from Games with Gold, but Bayonetta and SR1 was my favorites Now i'm scared to buy a New one and have the same problem :/

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I'd like to be able to download all my PSN games to my PS3. :)

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1TB is perfectly fine. I have a 1TB Samsung drive in mine model: HN-M101MBB 5400RPM and it works fine..Also the limit...I can't remember correctly but it could be 2TB. Maybe 4TB..idk really..Just FYI...My 1TB is completely full. So if you play alot of games like me..It's possible to fill it up..Also get Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars. It's great.

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Got to borrow some funds from a friend for the sale. Be jealous of me. :D

Blowout (PS2 Classic)
Castlevania Chronicles (PS1 Classic)
Digimon All-Star Rumble (PS3)
Fatal Frame (PS2 Classic)
Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly (PS2 Classic)
Fatal Frame III: The Tormented (PS2 Classic)
Medal of Honor: Frontline (PS2 Classic)
Prince of Persia Classic (PS3)
Rayman (PS1 Classic)
Rayman 2: The Great Escape (PS1 Classic)
Rayman 3 HD (PS3)
Sword Art Online RE: Hollow Fragment (PS4)

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Did you view my wishlist for this sale?? So many there that I want from it. :)

I'm still disappointed I missed the Siren and Siren: Blood Curse sale. Now I'll have more I'm going to miss. :)

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I haven't seen your wishlist.

I have Blood Curse on disc :) Only own Forbidden Siren 2 for PS2 though, yet to find the original

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Well you have good taste in games. :)

The original Siren and Blood Curse were $11 total for both during the last sale I saw them in (last October I think?) but I missed it. Now it's $30 for them. :(

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And I don't think Forbidden Siren 2 is available NTSC, unless I'm mistaken.

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It unfortunately isn't. PAL region did a lot better for the series, getting the second game when North America didn't, and getting a physical release of the PS3 game (though it just installs data to the hard drive like other physical collections of digital games, like the Journey collection).

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Well I got a couple PSN cards as well. Didn't get everything I wanted because, well, it would be quite a chunk of change and I have them from Steam/GOG already so no need to really get them from PSN anyway. I would have loved to have gotten the Rayman, other Prince of Persia and Thief games.

  • Blowout
  • Castlevania Chronicles
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert
  • Digimon All-Star Rumble
  • EA Sports MMA
  • Fatal Frame
  • Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
  • Fatal Frame III: The Tormented
  • Flashback
  • Heavenly Guardian
  • Madden NFL Arcade
  • Manhunt
  • Medal of Honor Frontline
  • Pac-Man World 20th Anniversary
  • Prince of Persia Classic
  • Silent Hill
  • Strider 2
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Closed 7 years ago by guppy44.