80GB dah ckup for me

I think, MO = Mass Order/Bulk kot

excuse me, 5400 or 7200rpm?

oh sorry for not being more clearer, which one must be used for the ps3? 5400 or 7200 rpm hdisk? or either one can?

Oh, right. Thank Ciper. Hehe! Nak cari satu hard disk, 320GB kt PC Fair JB, Mintak2 ada yang murah

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Added on August 1, 2008, 2:48 pm720p/1080p MKVs

This post has been edited by TheUndead: Aug 1 2008, 02:48 PM

erm.. it's a video format.. like .avi, .wmv

seagate momentus ok tak? planning to get this brand

you need to get an external casing with sata and then connect it to ur lappie's/desktop usb port.

New 500GB user, reporting in!

Finally, after delaying it for so long, I have successfully upgraded my PS3 Slim's stock hdisk
from the old 120GB -> to a new 500GB. Now I'm going to share my experience with you guys.

This 500-gigger is a Seagate Momentus, and it's specs are 2.5", 5400RPM w/ 8MB cache.
It's model is ST9500325AS. Bought for cheap2, just RM135, with FREE poslaju summore!
Pic:


Well, first thing I did after I received the 500GB hdisk is of course, examined it to see if it it's working properly.
I connected the hdisk to my PC by using a SATA-to-USB bridge that I took from an external casing I had.
I noticed that the file system is NTFS but there was no need to format it to FAT32 because that will be taken care of by the PS3 when
I plug it in later on. After a few file transfers, I can safely say that the 500GB is in perfect working condition so off we go!

The next step in the process, backup. To complete this task, you need to have a spare external hdisk or a *thumbdrive in FAT32 system.
Either borrow one of your friend's or go buy one. Backup is important to ensure all your trophies, gamesaves, DLCs, PSN games from the old hdisk are intact.
I whipped out my my trusty ol' Seagate FreeAgent Go 320GB for this.
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*(actually, an ext. hdisk is better for this job unless you can find a 120GB thumbdrive or you're PS3 backup data is small enough to fit in a thumbdrive).

For backups, you need the hdisk to be in FAT32 for it to be recognized by my PS3. For this, I used the most useful
EASEUS Partition Master, which you can get the "Home Edition" for free here: http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm
The formatting was real easy and took only about 1 to 3 minutes. (you can forget about swissknife, or all the other knives oredi )

(!) REMINDER: Sync your trophies for 1 last time b4 u proceed to backup. Do this by going to: Game > Trophy Collection > press Triangle > sync with server (!)
I connected my external hdisk to the PS3's USB port and then accessed the backup utility, by going to go
Systems > System Settings > Backup Utility from the XMB menu.
Chose Back Up, and just followed the on-screen instructions. The backup took a good 4hrs to complete so I took a quick nap
(I did encounter some probs at first. The error msg "The USB device cannot be accessed." would come up every time the backup
reached 3 to 5%. After a bit of googling, I managed to solve this problem. So if you have a FreeAgent, make sure to
TURN OFF the Power-Saving mode & LED Lights from the Seagate Manager. Link: HERE).

After that was done, it was time to change the hdisk. Took the old one out and put the new one in. Like eating kacang cap tangan!
Vid:


Beforehand, I had prepared a thumbdrive with the latest firmware in it. (v3.60). (FW must be put inside E:\PS3\UPDATE)
I think you can also put the FW inside the ext. hdisk/thumbdrive that you used for the backup earlier but just to be safe, please get all this done before backing up.

Finally, I powered on my PS3 for the first time with 500GB installed.
It asked for me to connect the controller with a USB cable and press the "PS" button so I did just that.
Next, it will say something about the new hdisk needs to be formatted and installed with FW so I plugged in my thumbdrive,
pressed START + SELECT at the same time and the formatting/installation began.

Then all that was left was to do a restore of the backed up data. Again, go to
Systems > System Settings > Backup Utility from the XMB menu.
This time, I chose Restore. I sat back, waited a good 2hrs or so and voilà! Everything is there.

So there you go, a walkthrough of my experience. Enjoy your shiny new PS3 hdisk upgrade!

going 500GB bro?

well, you will never know if scorpio blue hdisks causes problem or not until you try it yourself because some say no prob, and some say got prob and revert back to factory hdisk.

but what i know is that there are like 3 people already that's been pm'ing me and ask me hows the performance of seagate hdisks, and all i can say is, everything is perfect! no lags, probs whatsoever

so, seagate momentus da best!

bravo bro! hahahaha!

berkat doa dan usaha, dapat jugak kawan aku ni meng'upgrade' hdisk nya sendiri

kita ber'dlc sampai muntah ijau!

choosing seagate momentus too? naiss

PSN so full of controversy.. hopefully we can enjoy it once again

hmm.. this one is weird.. iinm, the ps3 takes about 10 to 15% of hdd size for system usage.. but yours detect only 300gb?

u sure u bought 500gb? or maybe its the 320gb?

That's a good HDD to use for ur PS3 but if can get seagate momentus better because i use that

sounds like hard disk issue. err.. if you still keep the backup data, reformat the hard disk (don't quickformat) and restore it again?

stick to 5400rpm as that is the spec used by sony on their stock HDD

This post has been edited by TheUndead: Jun 28 2011, 09:26 AM

Hard disk upgrade for PS3 Slim
- This is how you do it



Watch 'n' Learn!

get the hard disk from here bro: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1943835

i oso bought my seagate momentus 500gb from there

Eh, how come I can perfectly understand it?