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Upgrading the Hard Drive
TheVoid
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Hi, I'm thinking of buying a 1TB hard drive for my PS3 slim.
Had a couple of questions though....
If I take out my current hard drive and install my new one - let's say my new one became faulty, if I pop in my old one that still has all the downloads I had on it, would it work?
i.e. could I have a spare backup drive with all my games on it?
Had a couple of questions though....
If I take out my current hard drive and install my new one - let's say my new one became faulty, if I pop in my old one that still has all the downloads I had on it, would it work?
i.e. could I have a spare backup drive with all my games on it?
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Ah ok thanks Ash.
I've been looking at the Samsung HN-M101MBB which has 5 out of 5 on Amazon. Would you say this is ok?
Also, would I need to bother keeping my 320GB hard drive that came with my console? I supose I would as part of my warrenty right?
I think it needs some serious defragging, I've had it for 2.5 years and it has been used a lot.
Yes you need to keep your 320GB HDD. You could use it as an external HDD (use a prog called Fat32Format) for now but you need it for warranty purposes.
You can do restores of the File System and Database which should tidy things up but won't delete any data. There are guides dotted around if you google it.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0053YLTBC/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Also bought a cheap caddy to go with the 320GB drive from my PS3.
Anything I should be aware of before doing this? Last time I attempted this was in 2011, and there was a problem with the current firmware 3.56 which prevented you from changing the hard drive... and I'd already wiped my PS3 hard drive before starting so I was screwed!
Plug play and away u go
Thanks, but I needed to get it from Amazon as I had credit, and this went over my budget as it is. 5 out of 5 stars in the reviews so can't be that bad.
I will also be able to better test its reading/writing speeds once it's connected.
If you need to transfer data off the old drive you have to use the backup utility from within the XMB and save the backup to a USB drive (which has to be in FAT32 format). This can then be imported onto the new system when it has been set up.
Depending on the model of PS3 you may also need a copy of the firmware on a USB flash drive for the initial setup.
I want to see how my HDD is performing outside of the PS3 as I know it's not currently 100%.
SeaTools will let you perform a DST and a SMART health check - these are low-level tests on the drive itself (which ignore any data that may or may not be on it) and can tell you straight if the drive is failing.
Losing the data on it isn't a problem. I've been backing up save data since the day I got it and I can download 10GB in 25 minutes from the PSN.
Whilst I'm doing that on the PC, I can put one of my older smaller HDDs back in the PS3 and carry out some tests to eliminate/highlight a possible failing Blu-ray drive.