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#1 janson2185
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i am running out of space on my ps3 and i was wondering if there is anything i could do. i do not want to delete any of my game saves. i thought about upgrading my hard drive but i dont know how or what to do. please help.

i have a 40g and i dont have any music or demos or anything like that only game saves should it have taken away that much memory already?

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Well first off you you can store all your gamesaves onto a flashdrive.Then once you get a new Harddrive then you recover your profile and redownload any DLC,game add ons,videos etc,etc you had from the PS Store

Instructions

Here is a guide on how to upgrade your PS3 Hard drive from Gamespot.

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#3 DaMattGuy-360XL
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Well first off you you can store all your gamesaves onto a flashdrive.Then once you get a new Harddrive then you recover your profile and redownload any DLC,game add ons,videos etc,etc you had from the PS Store

Instructions

Here is a guide on how to upgrade your PS3 Hard drive from Gamespot.

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You just took all the fun out of being a technologically minded helpful soul (i.e. I was gonna say that! GRR!) lolol
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#4 K1LLR3175
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[QUOTE="DaMattGuy-360XL"][QUOTE="K1LLR3175"]

Well first off you you can store all your gamesaves onto a flashdrive.Then once you get a new Harddrive then you recover your profile and redownload any DLC,game add ons,videos etc,etc you had from the PS Store

Instructions

Here is a guide on how to upgrade your PS3 Hard drive from Gamespot.

You just took all the fun out of being a technologically minded helpful soul (i.e. I was gonna say that! GRR!) lolol

Well you can always add your own personal spin to being helpful.
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Well first off you you can store all your gamesaves onto a flashdrive.Then once you get a new Harddrive then you recover your profile and redownload any DLC,game add ons,videos etc,etc you had from the PS Store

Instructions

Here is a guide on how to upgrade your PS3 Hard drive from Gamespot.

K1LLR3175

This. Just remember to get a 2.5" SATA laptop hard drive and you'll be fine. There are installation videos online if you can't figure it out yourself (just unscrew, and slide in).

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[QUOTE="K1LLR3175"][QUOTE="DaMattGuy-360XL"][QUOTE="K1LLR3175"]

Well first off you you can store all your gamesaves onto a flashdrive.Then once you get a new Harddrive then you recover your profile and redownload any DLC,game add ons,videos etc,etc you had from the PS Store

Instructions

Here is a guide on how to upgrade your PS3 Hard drive from Gamespot.

You just took all the fun out of being a technologically minded helpful soul (i.e. I was gonna say that! GRR!) lolol

Well you can always add your own personal spin to being helpful.

Yeah, but all there is to say is "Move your saves to a portable USB device then swap drives and put saves back." which you already said. Not exactly rocket science. Besides, I'm too lazy to get descriptive. lol
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#7 janson2185
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what would be the best external drive to get???

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#8 DaMattGuy-360XL
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I got an 80gig and have several saves and add-ons, and even reserved 10gigs for trying to set up other operating systems, and it's not even half used. Though, if all you're ever going to use it for is game saves, then 60gigs ought to do ya just fine.
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#9 btlgearx
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western digital 320 gb i have that on my ps3 and if you have an external hard drive or an 80 gb i pod with a 50 gigs of space that will do then for more details go to you tube. go to the computer shop and ask for a SATA 2.5" hdd they know what to do after that

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#10 janson2185
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i figured that with 40 gb i would be good for a long time with memory cuz like i said i dont download games or have any music on there....so where is the memory going??i have 21 games if that means anything.

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#11 DaMattGuy-360XL
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i figured that with 40 gb i would be good for a long time with memory cuz like i said i dont download games or have any music on there....so where is the memory going??i have 21 games if that means anything.

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Hm. Well one thing you could try is formatting the hard drive. Of course, you need to move any files you care about (game saves) onto USB devices first. If afterwards you still don't have much space, it means the updates are saving onto the hard drive with the save files (and I really don't see why it would do that...)
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#12 janson2185
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i found a 120gb hard drive 2.5'' 5400 rpm on ebay. would that be a good one to get and what does the rpm mean??

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i found a 120gb hard drive 2.5'' 5400 rpm on ebay. would that be a good one to get and what does the rpm mean??

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I think that is a good hardrive.How much is it?And RPM means Revolutions per min...I think.
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#14 janson2185
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34.99 buy it now with 5.99 shipping.

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#15 DaMattGuy-360XL
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Think of rpm as the important part of Random Access Memory. It's what keeps the hard drive from crashing once the RAM is full, so of course having a big rpm is a good thing.
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#16 K1LLR3175
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34.99 buy it now with 5.99 shipping.

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Cool.That sounds like a deal.