New hard drive for ps3

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#1 ecclasius
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I bought the 20gb model (in January) and I am concerned about whether the hard drive space will last after seeing that Oblivion almost takes up 5gb of space by itself, so I now am considering buying a new hard drive with more space.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

Also, does anyone know whether I will be able to copy my saves, etc., to the new drive or will I just have to "start over?"

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#2 bsin94
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You should either delete the things that you no longer use or delete the games installed onto your harddrive. For example, both Oblivion and Resistance are installed to reduce loading times. If you insist on replacing the 20GB with a new hard drive, that is totally fine. Just backup your stuff on some external storage device. Perhaps you can back it up on an iPod? Not quite sure if thats possible.
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#3 crck
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you can copy saves and other files just as long as you have another media device to store them on while you are switching drives like a thumb drive, sd card or memory stick.  Just hit the triangle button on the files to copy.
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#4 plg2307
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I bought the 20gb model (in January) and I am concerned about whether the hard drive space will last after seeing that Oblivion almost takes up 5gb of space by itself, so I now am considering buying a new hard drive with more space.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

Also, does anyone know whether I will be able to copy my saves, etc., to the new drive or will I just have to "start over?"

ecclasius

Really depends of you. Not hard to remove the installed part of game. You'll just have to manage a bit more than if you have a larger size HDD. Yes you can put saves on an external media such as ext HDD or usb devices

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#5 plg2307
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you can copy saves and other files just as long as you have another media device to store them on while you are switching drives like a thumb drive, sd card or memory stick.  Just hit the triangle button on the files to copy.crck

Not SD card or memory stick though. Unless you have an adaptor that plug in USB since you don't have the card reader in the 20 model

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#6 bsin94
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[QUOTE="crck"]you can copy saves and other files just as long as you have another media device to store them on while you are switching drives like a thumb drive, sd card or memory stick. Just hit the triangle button on the files to copy.plg2307

Not SD card or memory stick though. Unless you have an adaptor that plug in USB since you don't have the card reader in the 20 model

Nice catch. 

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#7 ecclasius
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Okay, thank you all for being helpful.
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#8 bsin94
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No problem.
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#9 petrnorth18
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oblivion takes up 5gb's :o