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PS3/Xbox 360 External Hard Drive
Can anyone tell me if there are any external hard drives that are compatible with the 250gb version of Xbox 360 and 500gb PS3?
I'm running out of space on the hard drives of both consoles and do not want to delete my game saves and everything else.
I'm running out of space on the hard drives of both consoles and do not want to delete my game saves and everything else.
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not sure about Xbox though.
Why?:mad:
I thought that the sole purpose of the Xbox 360 and the PS3 would be that to save your games, you need a hard drive.
You can also store and use music, videos and pictures from an external drive.
Games you have downloaded to your PS3 can be deleted and redownload from the "Download list" in the "Account Management" section of the XMB as many times as you want.
If you want to keep every game you buy and download on the PS3 you would be better off with an internal drive which is pretty easy to install.
I have no experience of this on 360.
I have the same problem as you FIFA, running out of space but don't want to delete anything.
It seems MS and Sony want us to download all our games but they limit our games collection to the size of the internal drive.
Very annoying indeed.
You can buy 1.5TB and 2TB 2.5" SATAs but they are 12.5mm thick (which is too big for the PS3). It takes time for that technology to be fabricated on a smaller scale to be used in 9.5mm and 7mm HDDs.
The largest capacity 7mm 2.5" SATA I have seen is 500GB so this is of little use.
In terms of an external HDD, as it has been mentioned above, you cannot store games or game data on it, only save data and other media (music, video, photos). As it has to be formatted to FAT32, the largest capacity HDD you could use is 4TB (currently £180 - £270) as that is the maximum single partition capacity supported by the FAT32 standard.
If you need a bigger hard drive for your PS3 you can switch them. I found a video on youtube showing you how to do it a while ago.