aside from this, how many of you guys converted the stock hdd to use with normal pc?

put my old one onto an external casing and use it as a portable hdd

Planning to use mine..But need to buy a new casing

500gb now. yea~

dragon ur original hard disk is...??anyone can help me..?? when replacing 40gb ps3 with 500gb hard disk..will there be any prob??sry im a newbie

This post has been edited by SoulRain: Apr 5 2009, 05:43 PM

I have a Question.
Can RE5, SF4 and Demon's Souls save data transfer to new upgraded HDD? back up utility work with these protected game saves?

anyone who have 40gb ps3 already try upgrade it to 500gb yet.???

as long as you back the data with the back up utility withing the machine, its all good

uhh..u cant back up protected game saves..like re5 u will have to complete all the chapter all over again..

back up utility (whole-disk) backs up everyting


protected saves cant be backed up using manual backup (copying to other user/ usb drive)

Yup you can actually...if you use the back up utility...It backs up all of the items in your HDD...even the copy protected save file...

p/s: Just upgraded mine last two weeks (320 GB only)...all is fine except for one day after upgrading when it gave me a msg saying that my hdd data is corrupted and asked me to restart. After restarting, it ran a check..and after that it's all okay...and no more problem.

So anyone verified yet about the heating issues of 7200rpm hdd?

otherwise i might just stick with getting the 5000rpm one instead.

250gb here..... no problem

** Never mind found the answer ***

This post has been edited by ferricide: May 1 2009, 05:37 PM

last week am upgraded 60GB to 500GB ... throw old 60GB to dustbin ... so far no problem with new 500GB

make sure you choose quick format NOT full format ... 500GB full format takes you around 28 hours

next time you want to backup 500GB data ... am believe it will take more than 1 day to backup

last time when i backup my 22gb data from the original 80gb it took 28 minutes. Transfer back into the 500gb also took same time.

if the 500gb is full it might took around 6 hours!

bro, i backup my ps3, only used 40GB to my external hdd..it took 9 hours!!! any idea why? i havent change my hdd yet, scare that to restore will take another 9 hours!!!

also, what program do you guys use to format your hdd to fat32, since windows cannot. Tks.

This post has been edited by fremont88: May 11 2009, 06:04 PM

What issue? Never was an issue to begin with.

The heat produced from a 7200RPM HDD is hardly enough to cause the PS3 troubles. I've been running on a 250GB 7200RPM HDD on my PS3 for half a year now, never cause me a problem and it should not.

The heat increase in from a 5400RPM HDD to 7200RPM is barely noticeable, at the very most 1-3c difference.


No idea why. I backed up my 40GB in 20 minutes.

Use swissknife to format your HDD into FAT32.

using vista, so i used fat32format.exe which i dl from net.....guess it should not be this issue....weird...

update : i tested on another external usb hdd, buffalo sata, and it only took less than an hour...

must be my wd 160GB IDE thats causing the slow speed....

This post has been edited by fremont88: May 11 2009, 09:51 PM

i just delete nearly all my demo and home b4 backup, which using a 16gb thumb drive.. and then re-dload them after upgraded the hdd..