M'kay, the only thing I really care about transferring over is my gamesaves, which I already have copied to a SD card. So, when you put the new hard drive in the PS3, can you recover your profile, account, and system settings, or do you have to back up all that and the OS too? In other words, am I going to have to go back and reset all those video, audio, system, etc. settings to where I want them? Also, will the PS3 automatically format the drive to FAT32, or do I have to do that myself somehow? I've heard about some people putting in new hard drives and the PS3 not recognizing it. I want the Seagate 500 Gig, but I can only find one at 7200 RPM. Will that overheat or damage the PS3?
That's the main thing I don't like about my XBox 360. We have to use their special made, rediculously overpriced first party hard drives, and it doesn't look like they will be making anything above 120 Gigs. They won't even make a memory card over 512MB. I also hate not being able to transfer saves, music, pics, and movies back and forth from my PC with a SD card, and not being able to download other people's saves.
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Your PS3 should prompt you to format the new hard drive to FAT32 cause that's the only thing it recognizes. As for saving your system's settings, that you can save onto a jump drive for example. At least I think cause that's what I do. Just remember that you have to deactivate your PSN account before you swap drives then reactivate it afterwards otherwise you could run into trouble. Also back up your trophies to the servers because those you cannot save on external memory! 
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