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    Sony Gaming Here's the place where you can discuss and catch up on the latest news for everything to do with Sony's PSP, PS2, and PS3 ** Mature Discussion only - no Flaming*

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    Old 20-03-2007, 01:42 AM   #1 (permalink)
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    Commodity hard drives?

    Is there anything preventing you from putting a larger off-the-shelf HD into PS3? Paying for the bigger drive seems a little silly considering that for the price difference you can get a much bigger one...
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    Yeah, they're are guides on this one on the net.. one here:

    http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-ente...ive-216612.php


    They're laptop-style 2.5" ones, so dunno if they're the same price as normal HDD's but it'll certainly be worth changing. Especially with the 'openness' of the console allowing linux installation and that.
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    Sony have already confirmed that the HDD can be upgraded, just follow the above and make sure its a 2.5" laptop drive
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    Originally Posted by darkened_fetus View Post
    Is there anything preventing you from putting a larger off-the-shelf HD into PS3? Paying for the bigger drive seems a little silly considering that for the price difference you can get a much bigger one...
    the "bigger drive" box is a) the only one to be available in .uk b) also has wifi, hdmi, and a memory card reader whilst the basic model doesn't

    hard drive size is the smallest of differences

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