Want To Enhance Your Ps3 Difficult Drive To 250gb? Heres How

Initial issues initial that you are going to will need a difficult drive, your present difficult drive is likely a 40gb 2.5 sata 5400rpm so you'll want to look on places like amazon, misco and so on for any hard drive that is 2.5 sata 5400rpm and has the size in GB that you want. Sony recommend that you dont go quicker than 5400rpm, so dont, in case it has adverse effects your shiny new ps3, and you'll find lots of 5400rpm to choose from at the best price.

Secondly you might be going to require an external difficult drive or USB memory stick to backup your game saves, downloads etc To see how much space you might need to have on an external device go to Settings>System Settings>System Facts, this will then display how much totally free space you might have on your program so you've to use some maths to work out how much space you have applied, e.g. free space 30GB/40GB usually means you've 30gb free space out of 40gb so you have utilised 40gb - 30gb = 10gb

you can find two techniques of backing your info up, the cheaper way is to use a USB pen drive, to back up your game saves, an 8gb needs to be enough and is usually bought for around 10 should you dont have one already. To do, this insert your USB drive into a USB slot on your ps3, then go to Game>Saved Data Utility> then highlight the game save data you want to back up e.g. COD4> press triangle to bring up the menu> choose copy> you will then be asked to choose destination and your USB pen drive needs to be listed, Highlight the USB drive and press X, the game save data will now be saved on your USB. Repeat this technique for all your game saves. If you have enough space left following this is accomplished on your USB then you may also back up any media you may have on the ps3. If you have only employed around 7gb on your ps3 (highly unlikely!) you may do a full program back up which is explained below

The other approach is to do a program back-up on an external difficult drive, which must be within the FAT-32 format, attach your external hard drive to your ps3 and go to Settings>System Settings>Back up utility>Back up this will then back up all your facts to your external tough drive.

The initial method is possibly the most beneficial in the event you dont already have an external tough drive for price issues, as your user account and PSN account info and updates are stored on the ps3s internal flash memory. It really is only your media, game saves and downloaded content/media that is stored on the HDD, so in case you do a backup of all your media and game saves you'll be ready to go, once the PS3 formats your new HDD. But if you are making use of a wireless router make sure you know your WEP key as you are going to have to put that back in when your new hard drive is in.

Also downloaded games like Tekken 5 cant be backed up, so you will have to download them once more, this is just not a dilemma as you get 5 downloads of every single title you purchase, just go to the playstation store and go to download history where all the games/media you might have ever downloaded is going to be listed, then just press download on the highlighted game.

For the next bit you may need;

A little flat head screwdriver
A tiny Philips screwdriver
Somewhere flat and free of charge of dust/dirt to work

O.k. So we have our nice new tough drive, and we have backed up all the data we wish to, it is now time to remove the original hard drive. 1st turn off the ps3 and remove all power cables for safety, now locate the difficult drive cover on the left hand side of the program, it need to have a HDD sticker on it or a label saying detach this cover when removing the hard drive get your modest flat head screw driver and prise off this cover, this will then reveal the hard drive.

You must now see your difficult drive and a metallic BLUE screw, get your Phillips screw driver and eliminate the blue screw, this is the screw that holds the HDD in location on your ps3, once this is removed flip up the metal handle that's to the left of where the screw was and slide the HDD towards the FRONT of the ps3 to dislodge it from the internal connections, you are able to now pull the HDD carefully towards you and it will slide straight out.

You now have access to your HDD out side the ps3, you may now need to eliminate the tray that's attached to your original HDD, you will find four Phillips screws, two on either side, that must be removed, once this has been done remove your old ps3 HDD out of the tray and put in your new 2.5MM SATA Notebook HDD then replace the 4 screws to hold it in place.
Now your new HDD is within the ps3 caddy, you now have to install it into your ps3, which will be the reversal of removal. Initial push carefully the new caddy into the HDD space, but keep in mind to keep it to the correct hand side of the slot (or the front of the ps3), when it touches the back of the HDD space use the deal with to push it to the left (or back of the ps3) to locate the HDD connections on the PS3 connections, you are going to know when this has been performed properly when the space where the blue screw goes lines up with the hole on the ps3. Once it is lined up you'll be able to now put the Blue screw back in to secure the HDD to the ps3 key, replace the HDD cover and turn your system on.

Now as soon as the console boots up you are going to presented with a screen asking you to format your new HDD, as your ps3 has realised there is a new HDD installed, you must choose yes twice as a ps3 safety precaution in case you erase your difficult drive by accident!

This will take around 2 minutes and you will then be asked to reboot your program. Once you've got rebooted you'll be able to now check if your mod has been productive (fingers crossed!) Go to System>System Settings>System Data, this will display your totally free space that ought to reflect the size of the replacement HDD you may have just installed, but dont start worrying if it's 15 - 20GB short of what you expected as this is taken up by the ps3 for system use.

You now have a new bigger hard drive video Games Accessories all you'll want to do now is put your game saves/media back on, simply connect your USB/hard drive go to games>saved data utility>USB device(or what ever you utilised to back up your data) you may now highlight the game you want to copy onto your new tough drive, press triangle and select copy repeat this for all your game saves and media and away you go, you now have a bigger tough drive and your ps3 is back to standard. Its fairly simple truly, it just takes time to save all your games and put them back on, but well worth it for all that extra space!

Should you pick to perform this modification then ps3offer.co.uk accepts no responsibility in case you harm or break your PS3 Break although performing this job. If you're not confident you are able to do this procedure then please leave it to an individual who can.