Biggest HDD I can put on the PS3?

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#1 Gue1
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How much it'll be? Can I install 1TB HDD or the PS3 has a limit for the size?

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#2 Furi-Kun
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I haven't heard about anyone doing a 1TB, but I hear 500GB works fine.

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#3 Gue1
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So 500GB is possible? That quite a lot of space! Thanks. :shock:

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#4 kate_jones
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I have a 500gb wd scorpio blue in mine, not even sure if 1tb laptop drives exist yet?

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#5 Furi-Kun
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I've seen it. I couldn't believe it. It's still very new though.

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#6 kate_jones
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I've seen it. I couldn't believe it. It's still very new though.

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ah cool, still best to let someone else try it first :p

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#7 metalmasterW
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ive only heard of people going to 500gb...which i plan on doing some day as well...

but i hear i can go up to 1tb...never really heard of anyone doing so yet though

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#8 deactivated-638d165ba095d
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There is a WD 750GB notbook drive now. But I heard it won't fit the PS3 So 500GB is the sweet spot for now.

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#9 ShootingPwnage
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Yes you can, a friend of mine did it

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#10 codezer0
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Well, I personally haven't seen, read nor heard of any physical limitation on the amount of storage that a PS3 would recognize for an internal hard drive. But right now, I've not seen any hard drives that would physically fit in the ps3 being larger than 500GB, either. WD just made a 750GB one, but that one is in a non-standard size, and may not exactly fit inside the ps3.
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#11 monkeyd_93
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at the moment 500GB is the max, any bigger and only one can question what the hell you have on there :|
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#12 coughlanio
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As of now, 500GB is the biggest. There are 640GB and 750GB drives, but they are slightly thicker than normal 2.5inch drives.
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#13 l-laxor
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I have a 500gb wd scorpio blue in mine

kate_jones

I have this one too

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#14 MUSICMIKEG
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any size will do as long as it is a 2.5 inch sata laptop with a fata format stlye. The biggest one i'v seen is the 500gb, there is no 1tb for laptops yet, unless if you want to get a 1tb that you can plug up thur usb but it wont save your games on there unless you copy from your hdd to the 1tb you can put music,movies,pics, and downloads on there witch can free alot of your ps3 hdd.

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#15 SGTiD1NG0
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How much it'll be? Can I install 1TB HDD or the PS3 has a limit for the size?

Gue1
1TB works, my friend has it in his PS3 and it works fine. Anything over and it's pushing it, I'm guessing.
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#16 anotherone10
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Maximum internal HDD you can have is 500GB, works fine. 1TB 2.5" drives don't exist yet, maybe in 2010.

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#17 Solid_Cipher
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Heck I got me a 320GB which I think its enough. As far as I know, 500GB is the biggest for a PS3...that I heard....
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#18 spawnassasin
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man i got to get me one of those 500 ones. how much do they cost?

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#19 SGTiD1NG0
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man i got to get me one of those 500 ones. how much do they cost?

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Around £100-$150 maybe more or less.

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#20 zoidsj
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Technically you can connect ANY HDD to the ps3 but most HDD that are bigger than 500GB will then have to sit outside of the system

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#21 Ospov
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[QUOTE="Gue1"]

How much it'll be? Can I install 1TB HDD or the PS3 has a limit for the size?

SGTiD1NG0

1TB works, my friend has it in his PS3 and it works fine. Anything over and it's pushing it, I'm guessing.

Can you provide a link to what HDD your friend has? The only 1TB 2.5" drive that I know of is Western Digital and I've heard before that it actually doesn't fit in the PS3 since it's taller than regular HDDs. It says it's taller than regular ones on the official website so I know that much is true. I don't have one so I haven't been able to test if it can fit into a PS3 or not.