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PS3 1TB Hard Drive Upgrade - COMPLETE Software and Hardware Walkthrough
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- Опубликовано: 5 мар 2012
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This video walks you through the ENTIRE process of upgrading your Playstation 3 Hard Drive.
I realize that the video is a bit long, but I believe it's all-inclusive and provides all the information you'll need to perform a successful upgrade.
A quick outline of the steps are:
• Obtaining software to format a FAT32 external drive to backup your PS3.
• A discussion about what internal Hard Drive to choose for your upgrade.
• Backing up your PC to an external drive.
• Physically swapping the Hard Drive
• Booting the PS3 into a hidden menu to format and system restore to the new drive.
• Restoring your backup to the new drive.
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Helpful Links:
Software to format large FAT32 drives:
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Sony's PS3 Firmware:
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Thanks for watching!
Just wanted to let people know that i followed this video every single step of the way and everything worked exactly as it should have and i installed a Toshiba 500gb 7200 rpm hdd and it works splendidly. I believe it even decreased the loading times a little also no problems with heat at all. In fact it runs cooler than it did with the default drive. (which is a 5400 rpm drive) Any problems people may have with their ps3 over heating are more than likely because they do not have the ps3 laid flat or horizontal on a hard surface with at least 3 inches of open air on all 4 sides of it (also helps to have some space above it). Also don't forget that all electronics with fans used to keep them cool will get clogged with a shit load of dust. So you need to clean out the dust on these bad boys at least once every two years unless you have your ps3 in a very dust free environment. I live in a very dusty environment and actually clean out my computer at least once every couple of months my ps3 i don't clean more than once every 6 months.
Just updated my PS3 from 120GB to a 1TB hard drive. Followed the video, and it worked perfectly. Nothing wrong with the old HD except that I was completely out of room. Since the other took me about 6 years to fill, this should pretty much last me as long as I keep the system or it completely dies. Thanks for the awesome instructions!
i gotta tell ya ...you are the man !!!...had a lil trouble updating my ps3 because i watched some of the older tutorials on you tube and NONE were as helpful as yours...you made the upgrade go smooth as silk...thanks a million
All steps still work perfectly! Just completed the whole process now. Used the same 1TB Hard Drive showed on the video. Had much more data on my system, so both backup and restore took almost 5 hours (for a total of 10 hrs + handling time). Thanks for the help. Very useful!
awesome video, thank you very much! you helped me on every step on the way.
a tip for people who have both ps4 and ps3 - if you want to change your ps3 drive to 500GB don't overpay - buy 1TB drive from Amazon for $67, put it in your PS4 (extra space will come handy with all these games in the future!) and put the brand new 500GB drive that came in with PS4 to PS3! this way you'll save the money and buy one drive instead of two - for ps3 and ps4.
disregard this comment if you don't have ps4 and/or you need more than 500 gb of space on your ps3. thanks again for an awesome video.
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I also did exactly that. I bought a 2tb for the ps4 and put my 500 in my PS3. I also put the old PS3 hdd inside the external hdd case and hopefully I can format and use it with my PS3 as an external
That Fat 32 formatting got me good. i almost threw out my hard drive ! i eventually figured it out. i used Acronis to format it
10Hrs later. Everything went perfect. Restoring the backed up data though is better that actually backing it up. Its approximation says 3hrs. Thank God it wasn't 10 hrs again. Thank you for this video,you helped everyone more than you know. You just got yourself another subscriber. Thanks.
Definitely one of the best in-depth ps3 tutorials I have ever seen. Great job! I will be saving this for later.
you sir
just saved my day
thank you.
I'm about to upgrade my Ps3 slim 120GB to a 1TB HD. And I'm still watching the video, so sorry if you said this at the video, but I wanna know if the external drive needs to be formated for the backup to be done. I mean, if my external drive is already FAT 32 but containing some files, is that gonna be a problem with the PS3 backup? Thx
as long as you have enough space to back-up your files, you don't have to format your hard drive for backing up...the only things you have to be sure of, #1, the drive you back-up to is in FAT32 format....#2 the drive you back-up to has enough space....the drive you put in the console is the one that gets formatted
DvdXploitr thx for the help. Already did the backup, without formatting my external drive (it had enough space) and upgraded the hard drive to 1TB with no problems. Thx!
just upgraded my hdd to a 1tb seagate momentus. could NOT have done without this walkthrough. thanks man. keep up the good work.
I just updated my PS3 to a 500GB hard drive and followed this video. Everything worked Perfectly, thank you.
Now I've seen the whole video and I have another question. If I have more than one user in my ps3 system, the restore/backup utility does backup those data?
I have just upgraded my PS3 to a 1TB HD and it transferred all 4 user id's in one go
Tim Jones Yeah, I upgraded mine too. All things backed up, all users, saves, settings and stuff. It's all the same! =D
Conrado Lusa 1. how to save trophy collection? just syncing with server?
2. How to backup DLC, downloaded games? (i've got some like dead nation, etc etc)
3. will the backup save games progress? (checkpoints)
pl225 how about friend list?
pl225 DLC, downloaded games, saves, everything is as it was befor the HDD upgrade. Even the friend list. Only thing that isn't backed up are the trophies wich you have to sync with server.
Just updated my PS3 Slim with a 1TB 72000 drive everything seems ok, it doesn't seem that much faster. But I am only bothered about storage. Just hope 1 TB is enough as I have just downloaded Call of Duty Black Ops (Digital Down) which is 18 GB before updates or game saves.
Fantastic .... I followed every single step to the letter ... everything worked fine .... I was not expecting it to go smoothly ... thanks a million from someone who is not going to buy a PS4 anytime soon :)
Followed your steps and everything worked perfectly. I didn't do a backup because I can download my games faster than the backup would have worked (except for copying saves and random files to a few USB sticks), but everything worked the same. Thanks a lot!
Remember that you are only allowed 2 downloads for purchased games. You used up your allowed 2 downloads. Backing up would have saved you one download. Sony don't give 5 downloads anymore.
Bflo23 you can download it again but you'll need to go to the website and deactivate your systems if you did not do so on the system before you upgraded. I shared some DLC with a friend a while ago but when I got a second system I couldn't activate it so I had to go to the website and deactivate all the systems on my account then sign in and activate the systems I wanted on my account. Those sneaky bastards.
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OK. It is good to know. I was under the impression it was only 2 download for 2 different systems and then that is it. I have 2 systems so I am glad that if a system were to break down, I could deactivate the system and download some purchased games again on another system... As long as it is 2 "activated systems". The key word is "2 activated systems".
Just so everyone knows, as of firmware 4.80, the PS3 still does NOT work with 2TB HDDs, no matter what model PS3 your using, and no matter what 2TB HDD you install, they simply don't work as the PS3s just do not recognize them yet. Perhaps with a future firmware update, but it is doubtful.
How many PS3 games does a 1TB hard drive hold? I'm sort of in between buying a 500GB (€40) or a 1TB (€60)
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I have now bought and tested a 1.75TB HDD from ebay from ebay user Memorylabs, and it does NOT work on PS3 FW 4.80. The console's immediately said that the HDD is not compatible and did not even attempt to format the drive, and I tried it on all my PS3 models, fat, slim and super slim all at 4.80 FW.
I returned that HDD, and changed it for the 1.5TB HDD also found from Memorylabs on ebay, (in the auction that states it's made for PS3, which is a bare white drive) and the 1.5TB HDD's work flawlessly, were tested flawlessly using HDD Regenerator, and are from what I can tell ARE the biggest HDDs that can be used on PS3. I tried it on my first gen model CECH-A01 fat PS3, my Slim 2101b and Slim 3006b PS3, and the new Super Slim PS3 400x system and ALL of them accept the drive and format perfectly!
So, if you want the BIGGEST HDD for the PS3, unless a future firmware form Sony allows bigger drives, get the 1.5TB HDD from Memorylabs on ebay! The drive is cheap enough, (like $64 or so), and has decent speed and works like a charm!
I just upgraded my ps4 to 2 tb , and I still have my ps3 slim and we still use it, can I upgrade the ps3 with the old 500g hard drive my ps4 had?
Yes
+KnifeParty510 R does the ps4 hard drive nee to be reformatted for ps3?
+Pseudo Name sorry question was for you. does it neet to be reformatted?
+jav75 yes you can't use data from a ps4 In a ps3 sorry for late reply.
Yeah of course you can
Your instructions are fantastic. Just upgraded to a 1TB on my PS3. Thank you from Middle Earth.
Been looking for some info on the whole software section all night, finally found your video. Helped me out a lot. Good job!
if I put a new hardrive in my ps3 and didn't do any of that flash drive stuff and booted it like normal, would it boot like a brand new ps3 where you have to chose all the settings?
+Theo Clement nope, ps3 hasn't the firmware built in, you need to install it via usb flash drive, otherwise it will not boot. It's like turning on a computer with a blank hard drive, there is no operating system to boot..
+Co So it depends if you have a basic system I think the new Super Slim model. They have a basic 12GB flash drive, so if you install another drive it will format it. However if it's a original or slim then if you put a new drive in it does need to be formatted.
Nope.You need the update otherwise the ps3 wont be functional.
son many things wrong with this video
1. RPM doesn't matter you can have a 5,400 or a 7,200 it wont matter
2. you use SATA 2 otherwise known as SATA 3 GBp/s, SATA 3 otherwise known as SATA 6GBp/s will also work fine you just wont see any benefit
3.ALL 2.5" drives will work as long as they are just a standard hard drive and have nothing added on them
but if you are worried on what hard drive to get then just search PS3 hard drive on ebay =) but i prefer western digital blue 2.5" drives and they have great warranty
dont assume, and do your research. its been stated in a lot of places that 7200rpm can cause heat issues. 7200rpm = spinning faster = more temps. not hard to figure out
Aren't you a big dope? He was very specific that he had done his research and the issues of overheating were widely reported for 7200 RPM drives and yeah, it does matter with ANY PS3 as they, in the past have been notorious for overheating. Does that mean that it will always happen? Depending on how well-ventilated the unit is, how cool the room is and yes, how cool the HDD itself runs (they don't all run at the same temperature depending on the model, genius), no, not necessarily, but you're taking a risk and why you want to take a risk with the biggest killer of computer hardware (that is, heat), I have no idea.
Also, dopey, he stated, again based on actual research, that the HDD had to be BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE with SATA 1.0. He didn't say it had to be SATA 1.0. And not for nothing, everything this guy did WORKED so where do you get off saying "so many things wrong with this video?"
1. Of course it will work, the question is if it will last. Heat is a problem for any electronic device, take your chances if you want. Others have found out about the problem the hard way so why do you want to ignore their lesson?
2. All sata devices should be compatible but there is always some dickhead drive that just won't work.
3. NOT all 2.5" drive will work. I found this out when my 2TB drive wouldn't fit in my mini PC because it was 12mm thick. Same thing applies to the PS3. You are going to be quite upset when your shiny new drive won't fit inside the slot just because you assumed that all 2.5" drives are the same.
***** Obviously you have a PS Slim. If you have the older verisons of PS3 (like model CECHJ02) and you plug in a SATA 3gbs HDD, it won't recognize it.
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Hey mate, I'm just finishing my restore of my data onto my new 1 tb hdd now. Gotta say, ot worked like a charm, only taken me one evening to do my whole backup restore of 160 gb to the new one. I literally cudnt have done it without ur guide, it was my first time and all. Other guides leave out sooo much, I wuda bin screwed if I followed any other one. You are the man and have my eternal thanks. Cheers bud.
I just moved the 500gb Hard Drive from my PS4 to my 160gb PS3, after upgrading the PS4 to a Terabyte. Thanks for the vid, whole process was more complicated than the PS4, but your vid made it easy.
Thank you! Like you stated in your intro, there are so many videos with some of the steps, but no full walk through. This helped us a LOT. We are forever in your debt.
I've done the entire process you explain here, and it really works, the only thing I didn't do, was when you have to press the power button of the ps3 to get in the secret format menu, I only turn on my ps3 and I did it there. Thanks for your help, You are really a great tutorial maker!!!
updated my ps4 to a 1TB solid state and put the old HD from it into my ps3 slim with this video, awesome, thanks!
Just now finished doing this same process with my PS3. I bought the WD Blue 750GB. Worked like a charm and this video helped me tremendously,
Awesome.
So many online tutorials are missing the information regarding the service menu access step.
Thanks for that! I was just missing that step to format and then update the drive.
I'm at the restoring process. 3hrs to go. I have a lot of content. Thanks for making this video. It was really helpful.
Thank you. I followed the tutorial step by step and upgraded my 120 gb to 500 gb Blue Scorpio. Took 2.5 hours to back-up and 2.5 hours to restore my 100 gb drive. Everything is exactly as it was on the old drive.
I followed your instructions and I upgraded my 120GB to a 1TB. You should also note that you also need to back up your PSX and PS2 save data to USB hard drive/USB flash drive. When I did it the only thing that didn't recover was my PS2 save. Not sure why but not a big deal to me. But I followed you all the way and it worked! Thanks!
You are Sir, a total gentleman. Saved lots of reading of fluff on the Sony site. Very slowly explained, just what us techno numpties need. Many thanks.
I have seen other videos that weren't either in depth or that made me think I needed buy more things,yours is the best,thank you so much
I didn't even know you can do that with the PS3, seems very easy to do... man, you're awesome.
Actually how the man in this video has his ps3 laid out is an excellent example of how much space you wanna provide your ps3. No less than he's got if you want to make sure your ps3 stays cool under heavy load for multiple hours.
Absolutely wonderful! I have a 500GB digistor external hard drive and I watched the video you have here. I took apart the digistor and its basically the same hard drive as the 160GB that came with my slim. I didn't even need to format it to FAT32 because it already was formatted that way. I swapped out hard drives and downloaded the 4.55 firmware to a flash drive as directed, followed the rest of your steps and now have a ps3 with 412GB! I am a plus member and with so many great games for free to download I was running out of space. Unfortunately I have to download those games again but it was totally worth it. Thank you so very much for this video it was extremely educational!
This entire method worked flawlessly. The only other thing I would add is that when I had to format my external hard drive to FAT32 I was prompted to pick the 32768 option instead of the 4096 option because I was using a larger 2 TB drive. I believe most larger drives these days would use the 32768 option for formatting them. Excellent video!
This was the best instructional video I have ever seen. I did everything and now I have a new hard drive in my ps3. I was very nervous in the beginning, but your tone and instructions made it stress-free. Thank you very, very much.
Thank you so much for this! Once my back-up finished (which took a few tries) it was easy.
All of the "This is how you do it" videos that go for 3 mins do not cover the whole process, especially the important bits if you don't want to lose all of your stuff!! This is the real deal.
Thank you again!
Did mine using a 320 GB 7200rpm seagate hard drive and this instruction video is flawless. Used a 4.65 firmware upgrade.
i have found your film to be more informative than most of the other how to films for replacing the ps3 hard drive, thank you very much.
I just wanted to say thank you for this video! My PS3's 120 GB drive was full to capacity & by following you step by step I now have plenty more space! Thank You very much! Keep up the good work!
This was very helpful. My PS3 crashed. Don't know if it was from heat or if one of my family member spilled something. I replaced the Hard Drive thanks to this video and so far so good. Thanks.
Just wanted to say thanks. Was worried about upgrading to a TB HD, as I wasn't sure it would fit properly in the system. You've helped a lot. Keep up the good work.
Sincere Thank You, I've just upped my system with 500 gig SSHD drive. P.S. All tuturials should be as thorough as this one, thank you once again!!
Thank you.
I used this as a guide. I used the formatting program. And it works. I'm running a Crucial BX100 SSD from Amazon in my PS3. That is a solid state drive in a PS3 and everything is working great.
note: The ssd does not come formatted in any way. The formatting program does not see a drive if it's not formatted. That is another process.
I want to thank you so much for making this video and taking the time to go through each step. Because of this video I feel confident enough in upgrading my memory that I have bought the necessary items and will begin this process myself next week. Thank you again for going through this process, I myself greatly appreciate it.
Update: Completed the process today, right now working on restoring all my data but everything went through flawlessly! Thank you so much for walking through each and every step, it helped me so much!
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I just want to thank you so much for creating a video on changing a hard drive for the PS3 Slim, and how to format the new hard drive in the PS3. I had followed your steps verbatim and it worked fantastically! I am not going to lie, but I am still a noob at doing all of this Tech stuff. I have a friend that does this kind of stuff for a living and I just thought that I would try it out for myself. But thank you so much and please continue making amazing, "In Depth," videos such as this one! One Love!
Work perfectly. Sony playstation should hire you. the person I spoke with had no idea what they were talking about. Thanks again bro
Excellent video, I've followed it step by step and now my 1tb drive is installed and currently restoring the files from my external hard drive, thanks for this, you've been a massive help.
I've had several playstations though out the years. My current PS3 slim I rarely use anymore, downloaded a couple of movies which I hardly do through playstation network. Sure enough went to watch them and the factory hard drive locked up. Went to local retailer bought what they had, SEAGATE 500GB, 7200 RPM, followed your instructions and got it!! Hope it won't burn up, but ? Thanks for posting this.
I'm in the middle of this process and I'm being serious here. My approximation time is 10 hrs. The first time I tried to back up my data it presented failure to back up. Second time it actually started to back up. So far so good. 5-31-14
*Update*
All completed with no issues after following your video. Thank you very much!!
I formatted the usb pen drive to fat 32 which could be done within windows without any third party software as I'm sure your aware!
Just upgraded to a 1 TB drive. Thanks a lot!! I was panicking because I has a SATA 6 GB which was only backwards compatable to SATA 3 and you noted that it only worked if it was SATA 1. Luckily for me they must have done something since you made the video because mine worked just fine.
I have a 120GB PS3 which a few months ago stopped working & I was wondering what had happened so I turned it on & the message 'Unable to start up check if your hard drive is compatible', in the meantime I had purchased a new 320GB hard drive & I came across this video so I had replaced the 120GB hard drive with the 320GB hard drive & followed the steps on this video & the PS3 is working again so thank you for providing the information needed to get my PS3 working again.
my backing up on a 160 gb i had 129 gbs used took 23 hours and 23 minutes and i have the old uncharted 160gb fat ps3 all the steps are working exactly the same thanks so much for the help man appreciate it
It did help me out a lot. I was so skeptical and scared since, well, I don't "open" a lot of electronics. Very detailed guide. I didn't backup my system though as it was showing 86 hours for my 250 gig original drive.
well, thanks! I FOLLOWED ALL THESE STEPS AND I REPLACED MY 80GB WITH A 250B HARD DRIVE! EVERYTHING WORKED FLAWLESS!
THANKS!
REALLY EASY!
Great step by step instructions! It worked flawlessly for me on my second attempt. On my first try I ran into a problem on restoring the PS data back to the PS3. I formatted my 1TB WD Elements drive (FAT32) and backed up the data to the drive but when attempting the restore it could not find the data. This portable WD drive has a mini USB3 connector on it so I was using a USB3 cable. On my second try I used a USB2 drive and cable (again formatted FAT32) and it worked like a champ. Thanks for the great video!
This is the best and most in depth guide I have found. Absolutely brilliant.
Nice video, just after upgrading my 60GB original to 120GB Samsung Evo 840 SSD. Backup first took under an hour onto my portable HDD. Installed new SSD - worked instantly - no need to download firmware, user accounts already recognised - now I'm simply restoring my old gamesaves etc across. I should mention my PS3 is now virtually silent (!) No more whirring noises from the HDD, and the instant speed difference is absolutely incredible. A very simple process.
so what did you do after you screwed in the hard drive? same 'secret' boot up and it just didnt ask for udpate info(the start+select)? or did you just turn the ps3 on like it had never been fiddled with and it went straight to your home xmb page?
Thanks dude. I just repurposed a 750Gig drive from my laptop and placed it in my ps3. this video made it so easy to do.
Awesome video! Just upgraded to a 500 gig. Wish I had bought a TB though not bad for 52 bucks. Couldn't have done it without you. thanks so much.
I was just getting ready to get rid of my playstation 3 because the hard drive was so small, Thank you for showing me how to put a 1TB DRIVE IN MY PLAYSTATION
I was having issues with my download games freezing and having texture issues since I upgraded my hard drive from the stock 250 to a 500 that I had lying around. I was looking for a new hard drive but I was wondering about the RPM speed and if I should go with 7200. Glad I saw this video. Thank you sir for making it! Why I love RUclips. Was about to go research hard drives for PS3 and I like always turn to RUclips first for multiple sources. Going for a 1TB now.
Thank you to your short simple step by step video, it made upgrading my PS3 an actual option because it opened my eyes to how simple it is, :) I now have a PS3 with a 1TB drive, alas I'm still waiting on the restore working, it failed 4 times, it's no big deal i had already backed up all of my game saves to a flash drive, so i might not bother with the restore i can re-install all of my games and get there updates it might take a while but it's better than keep trying the restore when, i only had a third of my stuff in the back up anyway as i deleted all my big digital games cause i knew i could re-download them anyway. I would recommend this Upgrade to anyone it's kool having a PS3 with a much larger hard drive, never will i have to worry about running out of space, My PS3 now has 750GB more than my laptop lol. Others might have problems with the restore feature too, you should make a video taking people step by step without using the back up/restore feature, especially if people have a rather new system and don't have much stuff on it yet they could easily skip the back up/restore option, just back up there game saves to a flash drive and they will be good to go, ya know :) again good video,
Good job man! I never even knew about that menu @20:40. I would have been lost without this video!
This is a great tutorial. I (and many others form what I've read) were going crazy with the 1st step of the FAT32 large capacity format. Most of the other videos neglected to touch upon the entire process the way that you have here. Thanks again.
I would have to agree with Nestor. Thank you for making this video. I have been trying to update my PS3 hard drive for a month now But for some reason my PS3 was not recognizing the update on my USB flash drive. Thanks for the detailed instructions and me RETRYING the steps over about three times. I finally got it to work tonight. THANK YOU AGAIN!!! I'm going from 120GB to 320GB :-)
Thank you sooooo much for making this video. I followed it step by step with you and everything came out great!!! When I used my USB Thumb Drive with the Firmware on it, it did take like 10 minutes or so which sorta worried me at first - I thought it had locked up but I waited and it worked fine. Oh! And if you had Multiple Users, it restores everything for all of them!! Yippee! Thanks again!! :)
your the realest dude I was having so much trouble I didn't realize you had to have your folders set up a certain way
This is a great video, it made a GrandFather like me have a 1TB hard drive on my PS3. thank you, now me and son and grandson have alot more room to do things on our PS3.
I love this guide, I can't even begin to tell you how much this helped me.
After I replace my HDD to 1TB it wouldn't boot and I was lost. I watched about four videos before yours and by far every single step was exactly as stated in the video.
The flash drive I use had about 1GB of files on it but PS3 found the folder and ran the update 4.11
Thanks a lot your a life saver.
YOU ARE AWSOME FOR DOING THIS VIDEO, IT IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED. Thank you so much I feel like this is what everybody needed, the button pressing thing I never even saw once during my weeks of off and on research great vid.
Very well done and informative. A lot of RUclipsr how to guides either presume too much of the viewer ("oh, they'll know what I mean..."etc.) or talk down to the viewer with some serious over simplification. Your video was well balanced and extremely entertaining to boot...I'm planning to swap out my PS3's 160GB drive for a 1TB so this was perfect. I will whiz beforehand as well! Concentrate! Lol...
This was very helpful. I upgraded to 1 TB & it worked like champ!!
Just upgraded my PS3 following your video, works perfectly, thanks for your help...
Thank you so much sir . I’ve followed each step of yours and it worked . I’ve tried several ways but it wasn’t updating on my new hard drive but when I tried your way . I formatted from safe more then tried it and it worked right away . God bless keep up the good work .
i didnt even do the second option but i watched it anyway because it was such a great tutorial. Thank you so much!
I have no intention of upgrading my PS3 HDD, especially with PS4 around the corner, but this was a fantastic video.
I like when people are meticulous with a process like this, which scares us all. :)
I just changed my HDD for a 500 GB Seagate SSHD by following your video, thanks!!
I'm a hardcore gamer.I got the 320gb.I'm working on getting mine like urs.thanx for the video.I will talk to soon
I happen to have had an old 320 Laptop HD laying around from a project I never finished years ago, and thanks to your guide here I fearlessly swapped it out with the 120... IM SO happy OMG i was tired of deleting things to add new content! THANKS for the best install I could find.... You are the RUclips version of : Installing HD on ps3 for Dummies" lol Thanks dear.... Keep up the good work...
just finished my 1tb upgrade thanks for the info had no problems best video ever thanks guy!!!!!
Thanks Bro Worked like a charm! I actually bought a ps3 with a 500GB HDD and didn't quite use it much so i used your tutorial to downgrade it to a 230GB HDD to use the 500GB in My PC because i needed more space on it and I use the PC more and i only use the PS3 for watching Blue Ray DVDs and i don't Really Game on It anymore, thanks again this was really helpful and if anyone needs to do the same procedure i did, just follow this dudes awesome tutorial carefully and it works!! ( I have a super slim btw so it works well on this system too)
you are right, he was doing just fine until he started talking about firmware and restoring the ps3! It does it for you!!!!!
Great video. I purchased the exact make/model hdd you did from Amazon for 65.00.And following your steps I am now enjoying the massive increase in space far from my old 120GB.Well worth it.And thanks a lot. You made it simple.
Thanks for the detailed video!! Just swapped my 250GB to 1TB hdd without any problems. I used the WD Scorpio Blue WD10JPVT 1TB 5400RPM SATA2/SATA 3.0 GB/s 8MB Notebook Hard Drive (2.5 inch)
OMGoodness HUD you are the MAN !!! This video was incredible insofar as it addressed my problems.I successfully got through a 350 GB to 1 TB upgrade thanks to you. . . .and Marvin the Martian, my 4GB thumb drive. . .BTW I am thinkin', with a tag like HUD, you GOT to be a Philly guy, am I right? C'mon, now . . . .fess up!
This process went just like you said. Great video; well put together. Easy Peasy. Went from a 160 gb to 320 gb.
Thank you so much. I did everything the tutorial said and I got an upgraded PS3. From 80gb to 827gb :D
Thanks again dude!
Best video. I was lost and tought I couldn't fix it. Followed your video step by step and got it right. Kudos! :-)
Great video, I had an issue on the setup. I was unable to get the update to take from the usb drive to reinstall the PS3 OS, and wake the system. I thought it was the hard drive till I remembered how do I update my blu-ray player. The updates are done by burning the update to a disc yes may be a waste of a disc, but the update took without the usb drive. The system is working now. The main issue for the upgrade was the games were not being read properly. I really thought it was the hard drive it turned out to be the laser lens was off track weird start up error.What I did to get the drive laser lens to align again just put a blu-ray disc in the player. The lens aligned itself now the games read fine may have been a little dust who knows.
Now the player has a new better 500gb from a 120 which was almost completely used up. Thank you for the good work.
Thanks Bro, Restoring to a 1TB drive now, I had 120 Gig to begin with! Subbed because you're awesome
Thank you so much for taking the time of doing this video! I just swapped my PS3 HD and this video was an amazing guide! Ready now to download all those games from PS Plus. Thanks!!
Top Jolly Video cos I been on the verge of throwin this PS3 through the window.Managed to do it first time no fuss with your Guide 10/10
Very well spoken and informative. Posted for someone else that had a question installing.
EXCELLENT video, as you say all videos have parts and pieces but none is as detailed as yours. Hats of for this great video :)
Just ordered my WD 1TB disk so i'm just preparing for the upgrade myself. I have the 320gb version but the PS+ games eat up my drive so 1TB will be a great upgrade.
Dude thank you so much for this video. I would of gone nuts trying to figure this all out.