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General discussion (archive)PS3 Hard Drive upgrade questions...help needed(19 posts)solved(19 posts)solved
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Posted May 23, 2012
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EC-: Any 2.5" internal SATA HDD will work.

External USB drives must be formatted to FAT32 in order to be read.
So it'll format the drive to whatever format it needs out of the box(The SATA drive I mean.)? Good. Thumb drives need to be FAT or FAT32 to be read or written to by PS3 though?
Posted May 23, 2012
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EC-: Any 2.5" internal SATA HDD will work.

External USB drives must be formatted to FAT32 in order to be read.
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GameRager: So it'll format the drive to whatever format it needs out of the box(The SATA drive I mean.)? Good. Thumb drives need to be FAT or FAT32 to be read or written to by PS3 though?
Yeah the PS3 firmware has a format utility, but you must format the external drives yourself. It won't even detect them unless they are FAT32.
Posted May 23, 2012
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GameRager: So it'll format the drive to whatever format it needs out of the box(The SATA drive I mean.)? Good. Thumb drives need to be FAT or FAT32 to be read or written to by PS3 though?
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EC-: Yeah the PS3 firmware has a format utility, but you must format the external drives yourself. It won't even detect them unless they are FAT32.
Thanks.
Posted May 24, 2012
looks like all the bases were covered here, all i can say when backing up make sure you got something to do, when i did the back up it took well over an hour
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