Who knew 40gb would be too small

-null- · 01-01-11, 11:34 AM

I've just spent the morning clearing old data from my PS3 after running out of HDD space. Never though 40gb would be too small, especially since I don't have any music or videos on it, it was all game data and a couple of demos

Anyway going to upgrade the HDD now since I could pretty much quadrupel my capacity for only around £30.

Madex · 01-01-11, 12:20 PM

I reccomend Western Digital (WD) Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT 500GB 2.5 inch Internal SATA Hard Drive (Sony Playstation PS3 Compatible) - Computing at Play.com (UK)

I also got a 40GB but I will probably be getting one of the Slims soon.

-null- · 01-01-11, 02:25 PM

The WD drives seem to be recomended so just ordered one from Dabs.

buckers582 · 01-01-11, 04:01 PM

i was literally just looking around to upgrade from my 160gb,
and i was going to go for that 500gb from play.
Should be plenty ...

buckers582 · 01-01-11, 04:29 PM

Although for the same price this one
Samsung M7 640GB 2.5 inch SATA II 8MB Cache, 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive OEM - Sony Playstation PS3 Compatible: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories
has 140gb more

-null- · 01-01-11, 06:20 PM

Dabs has the WD for £39 plus delivery (bringing it to £43).

Madex · 01-01-11, 07:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by buckers582

Although for the same price this one
Samsung M7 640GB 2.5 inch SATA II 8MB Cache, 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive OEM - Sony Playstation PS3 Compatible: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories
has 140gb more

It doesn't matter about the price, but which works and fits better.

alexjames · 01-01-11, 09:01 PM

I've got the same problem. Only game-saves and demos yet they take up so much room. You can however use a Network Drive(I use Lacey) to add to the drive space, however due to it being a 'wifi drive' it can be quite slow.

**ryan1087** · 02-01-11, 05:24 PM

I have a 50gb model of the phat ps3 and it runs out so quickly its rather annoying, thought of upgrading it but never got round to it.

Nero · 02-01-11, 05:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ryan1087

I have a 50gb model of the phat ps3 and it runs out so quickly its rather annoying, thought of upgrading it but never got round to it.

50gb model? I thought the PS3 Phats only came in 20gb,40gb,60gb and 80gb.

**ryan1087** · 02-01-11, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nero

50gb model? I thought the PS3 Phats only came in 20gb,40gb,60gb and 80gb.

Hmmm might be a 40gb or 60gb then lol

Nero · 02-01-11, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ryan1087

Hmmm might be a 40gb or 60gb then lol

Just go to system settings system information and it should tell you.

Madex · 02-01-11, 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nero

Just go to system settings system information and it should tell you.

It's probably a 60GB, 10GB is used for System etc.

vster2010 · 02-01-11, 11:39 PM

yea "50gb" is the 60 launch. there is so much taken up by system. i updated mine from the 60 to 320. but my 320 is 296.

most of my stuff on there is movies and pictures. i use my ps3 as back up for my pics lol.

buckers582 · 04-01-11, 03:35 PM

thats not the system thats actually the size of the harddrive

Quote:

One gigabyte in binary is 1,073,741,824 bytes (2^30), but in decimal it’s only 1,000,000,000 bytes (10^9), which is a difference of 73,741,824 bytes (~70MB).
So, when we're talking about storage size in gigabytes a hard drive's capacity as reported by the OS will be about 7% less than what is advertised by the hard drive manufacturer.

40GB = 37GiB
80GB = 74GiB
100GB = 93GiB
120GB = 111GiB
160GB = 148GiB
200GB = 186GiB
250GB = 232GiB
300GB = 279GiB
320GB = 297GiB
400GB = 372GiB
500GB = 465GiB
750GB = 697GiB
1000GB = 930GiB

So the PS3 must only take up about 5gb

-null- · 04-01-11, 04:14 PM

I thought the hdd space reported by the PS3 didn't include it's own system files. And the few GB missing was the "table of contents" all drives have (I can't remember the proper name for this

).

As I was typing this I got the dispatch notification email for the new HDD lol

-null- · 07-01-11, 01:41 PM

New hard drive arrived today and is now installed and working

Was really easy to do as well, even when I got a "system software cannot be run error". I just needed to download the latest PS3 update and put it on a usb memory stick. PS3 read it from there and off we went.

SometingStu · 08-01-11, 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ryan1087

Hmmm might be a 40gb or 60gb then lol

Hang on a second, aint the 60GB ones those that can play PS2 games?

They're worth a bomb nowadays!

Nero · 08-01-11, 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SometingStu

Hang on a second, aint the 60GB ones those that can play PS2 games?

They're worth a bomb nowadays!

Yep. The 60GB and 80GB models can play PS2 games. But those models risk the Yellow Light of Death.

Madex · 08-01-11, 03:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SometingStu

Hang on a second, aint the 60GB ones those that can play PS2 games?

They're worth a bomb nowadays!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nero

Yep. The 60GB and 80GB models can play PS2 games. But those models risk the Yellow Light of Death.

Not all of them.

01-01-11, 11:34 AM	#1
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-null- Mini Mac Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 3,143	I thought the hdd space reported by the PS3 didn't include it's own system files. And the few GB missing was the "table of contents" all drives have (I can't remember the proper name for this ). As I was typing this I got the dispatch notification email for the new HDD lol Last edited by -null-; 04-01-11 at 04:15 PM..

07-01-11, 01:41 PM	#17
-null- Mini Mac Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 3,143	New hard drive arrived today and is now installed and working Was really easy to do as well, even when I got a "system software cannot be run error". I just needed to download the latest PS3 update and put it on a usb memory stick. PS3 read it from there and off we went.