Just upgraded mine to 320GB yesterday (WD 2.5" SATA 320GB 5400RPM 8MB)

Tips:

1. Make sure you have an external HDD ready (formatted in FAT32)
2. Prepare proper screwdrivers (sharper the better). Those screws are machine-tight!
3. Prepare the latest PS3 firmware file (PS3UPDAT.PUP) because you'll need it for the first installation. Put it into a USB thumb drive or external HDD. Again, must be FAT32!
4. Backup using the Data Backup utility to the external HDD.
5. Replace the HDD
6. After replacing, plug in the USB disk or HDD that contains the firmware and press SELECT+START
7. Then, hold START for 5 seconds to confirm formatting the new drive.
8. Run the data restore utility to restore all the settings, game data, game saves (some games cannot be backed-up) that you have backed-up earlier.
9. Done. Enjoy your gaming on the new HDD.
10. If you have any games downloaded from the Playstation Network, you need to reactivate them again. (No need to redownload and install). Go to your Download History under the Account Management settings in your PSN menu, select the game that you have downloaded earlier, press DOWNLOAD. You will see the screen which says "Activating, please wait...". Once this is done, the download screen will pop up. In this step, you can just skip it because all you want to do is to activate the game. If you don't activate the game after restoring them from the backup drive, you will receive an error saying that the "Copy-protection information is invalid"

This post has been edited by geekster129: Dec 13 2009, 01:28 PM

Forgotten to mention. Laptop SATA HDD (2.5")

Got Q here:

1. What is the max storage?
So far I have only seen people go up to 500GB in practise. Haven't seen any higher than that yet. That being said, I didn't attempt to try getting larger than 500GB just to be on the safe side. 1 tera anyone? But in theory (DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEANS FEASIBLE), since the PS3 supports FAT32, so theoretically it should be able to support up to 4TB (if such HDDs exist)

2. Can we copy the game from BD to hdd?

For BD Games, NO. The PS3 will copy only a portion of the game data in the BD to the HDD to allow the game to load faster.

Games that are stored entirely in the HDD are PSN games distributed in digital(downloaded) format.


Thx in advance.

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Added on December 13, 2009, 3:37 pm

/cabut

This post has been edited by geekster129: Dec 13 2009, 03:41 PM

Yes. Just get a laptop internal hard disk and you're doing fine.

This post has been edited by geekster129: Dec 14 2009, 07:24 AM

No problem bro, as long as it is helpful to any future PS3 owners who want to upgrade their HDD, please do the necessary.

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Added on January 1, 2010, 6:58 pmCorrect me if I'm wrong. One of my friend suggested to me to use 5400RPM on the safe side, especially if you're still on the phat PS3.

Please help me confirm if 7200RPM is safe to be used. Thanks

This post has been edited by geekster129: Jan 1 2010, 07:04 PM

i've read about people trying to put ssd in ps3

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6192258/index.html

With performance stats too.

Use it for video editing or photo editing or speed up your OS, no point putting into PS3

You can refer to this thread which has a comprehensive guide with regards to PS3 HDD upgrade:

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...&hl=upgrade+hdd