**DIY save money & expand your PS3's HD space**

Here's how to make your own 120GB PS3 and save yourself the extra money of paying for the inferior 80GB version:

step 1: buy a 60GB PS3 for $500

step 2: buy a 120GB 2.5" Western Digital hard drive on newegg for $70

step 3: install said hard drive:

step 4: enjoy your new 120GB PS3 and the warm feelings from saving yourself some $$$

EDIT: It turns out that the HD in the PS3 is a SATA (Serial ATA) hard drive, so make sure you don't buy a hard drive with an ATA-6 connection. The one I link to above is actually ATA-6. Sorry for the mixup, but there are several more HD's further down that others have linked to, so check those out.

I found a 100gb one for $46.

I'd rather use that. :D

Here's how to make your own 120GB PS3 and save yourself the extra money of paying for the inferior 80GB version:

step 1: buy a 60GB PS3 for $500

step 2: buy a 120GB 2.5" Western Digital hard drive on newegg for $70

step 3: install said hard drive:

step 4: enjoy your new 120GB PS3 and the warm feelings from saving yourself some $$$

true_apollo

[QUOTE="true_apollo"]

Here's how to make your own 120GB PS3 and save yourself the extra money of paying for the inferior 80GB version:

step 1: buy a 60GB PS3 for $500

step 2: buy a 120GB 2.5" Western Digital hard drive on newegg for $70

step 3: install said hard drive:

step 4: enjoy your new 120GB PS3 and the warm feelings from saving yourself some $$$

planbfreak4eva

i can understand how this all thing is going on, but how i ll put the PS3's OS to the new HD? Isnt it preinstalled in the 60GB HD?or i dont need to make any transfer,just the music/vids/saves?Johnke

I wondered that myself, but the article I linked to for installation doesn't mention any problems. It does say that upon the first boot with the new HD the PS3 will format it for you, so I would imagine that the OS is stored on a separate back-up. This would also make sense as a fail-safe in case the original HD failed. I'm going to see if I can find a definitive answer to this later.

EDIT: I just found another video here that I think will answer your questions. It shows step by step the installation process and what to expect with the first boot up. The PS3 started normally upon the first boot, prompting me to stick with my earlier conclusion about the OS. Hope this helps. Also, this link will take you to another step-by-step installation (w/pics).

wow that's really great Apollo !!

Am looking forward now to purchase 120gb HD(guess it would be enough space). It looks really easy now that u dont have nothing to do but use a screwdriver and some bucks :D

Ty a lot !

As far as I know, pretty much any external USB HD will work. External hard drives are a great way to add space without worrying about replacing the internal hard drive. Also, when you start getting above 200GB, it gets MUCH cheaper to buy an external hard drive than to find a 2.5" internal one. Heck, if you wanted to you could probably hook up a couple of TB external HD's. With external, the sky's the limit on how much space you want to add. I'll try to find a link that goes into more detail on this topic later.

EDIT: From the looks of this forum posting I found, you have to first format your external HD to FAT32. Also of note: it appears from the linked discussion that the max file size recognizable by the PS3 is 4GB, so unfortunately uncompressed movie files greater than that will not pop up on your HD even if it's formatted properly.

Here is a link to an article that will help you go about formatting an external HD to FAT32 for use with your PS3 (or Mac or Linux).

EDIT: Also, from further investigation it seems like there is an excecutable in windows that will allow you to format a HD to FAT32, but apparently it only works for partitions 32GB or smaller. Sounds like you're better off going with third party programs to format your external HD.

EDIT: Here is another link for Vista users that should help formatting a drive to FAT32 if the first link didn't work.

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