ccs says:

I have connected a 300GB External HDD to the PS3, but it is not get recognised like a USB flash stick or Mem. Card!



Does it need to be formated specially?

04/15/2007 Brisbane

pirarefunk says:

why are you doing that

04/15/2007 Harrison

piti says:

Hmm not sure my friend said to me he has hooked up his 120g Hard drive to his PS3 with no prblems or anything by Usb.

Thread Moved to PS3 Hardware

04/15/2007 Sydney

mateo1 says:

isnt 60gigs big enough?

04/15/2007 Brisbane, QLD {PSN = aimar120}

piti says:

Nope, I have so much stuff I think I'm going to buy a external 300g Hard drive

04/15/2007 Sydney

pirarefunk says:

What the hell are u guys putting on it..

04/15/2007 Harrison

mateo1 says:

pirarefunk said: What the hell are u guys putting on it..

04/15/2007 Brisbane, QLD {PSN = aimar120}

hijakkk says:

yea!! 60gig is just to good what yah guys gonna put on 300g damn!!!!

04/15/2007 SyDnEy!!! west side!!!

piti says:

Alot of music, Heaps of movies, Prison break season 1 and 2 and stuff like that

04/15/2007 Sydney

ccs says:

I have a large 4GB+ file (video) I wanted to watch, so External HDD would be the only option. But it doesn't show as being connected.

04/15/2007 Brisbane

Entice says:

Hmm is it formatted in FAT32 or NTFS?

04/15/2007 Sydney

ccs says:

HDD is NTFS, because if it was FAT32 the file wouldn't even go onto the drive.

04/15/2007 Brisbane

mateo1 says:

how much does an external 300gb 1 cost neway?

04/15/2007 Brisbane, QLD {PSN = aimar120}

pirarefunk says:

Why would you fill it up..i burn 2 dvd watch then write over.i have 45 gig still

04/15/2007 Harrison

mateo1 says:

when i see how much i have its says 43gb/55gb, i thought the ps3 was 60gb?

04/15/2007 Brisbane, QLD {PSN = aimar120}

zfishes says:

thats because
60 000 megabyte = 58.59375 gigabyte
and you lose a few GB for formating ect so you get around 55GB

04/15/2007 Sydney, Australia

Entice says:

ccs said: HDD is NTFS, because if it was FAT32 the file wouldn't even go onto the drive.

04/15/2007 Sydney

mateo1 says:

zfishes said: thats because
60 000 megabyte = 58.59375 gigabyte
and you lose a few GB for formating ect so you get around 55GB

04/15/2007 Brisbane, QLD {PSN = aimar120}

ZOIDBERG says:

let us know if you got it working or not

04/16/2007 Planet Earth, New New York

ccs says:

Not yet.

04/16/2007 Brisbane

exatoy says:

I havent see people using HD (by using USB) yet, but I've saw the magazines mentioned people use bigger 160G HD, they take off the original HD and replace 160G in. (Original PS3 HD using Seagate brand)

Another one I saw is they used 3.5inch Hd (original PS3 use 2.5inch), they extended the SATA cable out and connected to a 250G 3.5inch HD, and run external power on it. Coz they dont wanna put extra power on the PS3.

But 1st few times, PS3 wont recognised the bigger HD, but after been reset for few times, then its fine.

04/16/2007 Sydney

maaddog says:

Hi Guys,

I have a 300GB external connected to my PS3 with no problems, its a:

320Gb Western Digital "JB" 7200 RPM ATA/100 IDE Hard Drive, 8mb cache (HD-WD3200JB) formatted as FAT32 in a generic enclosure.

This works with no problems at all with the PS3, great for backup or heaps of encoded vids.

I have installed Linux on my PS3 and will test the external drive with this too, should be fine.

peace
mAAddog

04/16/2007 Sydney

ectozar says:

Well that about sums it up, looks like you'll need to format the HDD as a FAT32 partition ccc. I doubt the PS3's operating system can recognise NTFS, although you'd think they allow for it to be used..

04/16/2007 Sydney

antman1011 says:  

60GB is fine for me, i have movies music and games on mine and still got HEAPS of space.

04/16/2007 Melbourne, Victoria

ZOIDBERG says:

Can any external Hard Drive brand work by using Fat32 or is it only Maaddog's one "Western Digital"

Anyone confirm ?

04/17/2007 Planet Earth, New New York