Burkey's BlogMarch 5, 2008 @ 7:44 pm
PS3 Hard Drive Upgrade
In the wake of seeing PlayTV, and realising I can copy DivX films to my PS3 hard drive, I decided to upgrade my 60gb Playstation 3 hard drive to a new Toshiba 250gb one. After reading a guide on how to upgrade the HDD, I thought it would be a quick 5 minute job. However, as with all things computer-orientated, it ended up taking way more time than expected (around an hour). The reason for the time delay? The screws! I’ve never had so much trouble with screws! Firstly, they were tight as hell. Second, using my torq screwdrivers I managed to strip about 3 of the 5 screws, meaning I had to try all sorts of ways of getting them off. As it happened, the easiest way of removing them was just using a pair of pliars and twisting the buggers off.
My hands were throbbing for quite a while after, and the old hard drive is probably wrecked from the amount of dodgy handling I done on it trying to get those screws out!
Anyway, the system is now up to 250gb, and the data backup and restoration was a breeze using the PS3′s own backup utility. The hard drive does sound a slight bit noisier than the old one, but nothing major, plus this is only noticable when the hard drive is actually being accessed (its not a constant Xbox 360-type noise or anything like that).
This also gave me the chance to leave a partition for another OS when I was formatting too, so I may have a play with linux on the PS3 in the near future.
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Posted by Techy News » PS3 Hard Drive Upgrade
March 13, 2008 @ 8:16 pm
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May 16, 2008 @ 4:28 pm
[...] within Virtual PC. I was lucky enough that I had previously partitioned my PS3 hard drive when I installed a fresh 250gb hard drive a few months back. If you’re interested in doing this yourself, all the instructions you [...]
Posted by Stu
March 9, 2009 @ 2:00 am
do you see any performance changes in the Toshiba ?
hope you left a fair few gig for nix! do you know if you can install linux onto an external hard drive ?
wonder if you can install linux, then vmware and install windows inside the vmware… ps3 with windows :D
Posted by Burkey
March 18, 2009 @ 11:51 am
I haven’t noticed any perceivable change in performance, or noise for that matter. To install linux the PS3 offers a feature to re-partition the hard drive, however as far as I can remember the second partition is fixed at a static 10gb of space. I haven’t toyed about with it much in honesty (since I’m not a big linux user), but I have heard that it is possible to run Windows on the PS3, except it runs at a ridiculously slow pace.