I'm curious how many of you have had to upgrade to a larger Hard Drive. With the seemingly larger and larger install files games require; 40, 60 and 80gb seem to fall behind and get filled retardedly fast, especially if you download demos, addon content, vids, music etc.

So have you? If so, how large?

I upgraded my 60gb model to a 250gb. I hope it's enough for a while.

i haven't yet, but will be when i get the money to and a lend of an external hard drive

How does getting  your data to the new hard drive go to with that process btw? I have yet to need to upgrade it,i'll but after a few more full dlc downloads i'll need to very soon.

"How does getting  your data to the new hard drive go to with that process btw? I have yet to need to upgrade it,i'll but after a few more full dlc downloads i'll need to very soon.
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"How does getting  your data to the new hard drive go to with that process btw? I have yet to need to upgrade it,i'll but after a few more full dlc downloads i'll need to very soon.
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No and I never will! I hate the reasoning behind having to upgrade it...

"No and I never will! I hate the reasoning behind having to upgrade it...
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Upgraded my 60GB to a 250GB. I used an external HD for the back-up/transfer of data. Extremely easy to do and well worth it. It was such a smart thing for Sony to allow users to use a standard laptop HD to upgrade their PS3.

Not yet, but when I do, I'm going straight to 500GB, or 750GB's if available. Why? Because I can.

"Upgraded my 60GB to a 250GB. I used an external HD for the back-up/transfer of data. Extremely easy to do and well worth it. It was such a smart thing for Sony to allow users to use a standard laptop HD to upgrade their PS3.
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I still have 30 GB left on mine, so I haven't needed to.

Ah thanks for the help,its funny you can find a HD nowadays thats near 1 terabyte  from newegg for less than the 360's 120 gig HD attachment.

yeah its pretty poor... and its one argument i hate about the 360... "its cheaper than the ps3" yes but the cost with the ps3 is one lump sum you dont have to buy everything afterwards

"pause422 said:

"How does getting  your data to the new hard drive go to with that process btw? I have yet to need to upgrade it,i'll but after a few more full dlc downloads i'll need to very soon.
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you need an external hard drive and you connect it to your ps3 then in the settings there is a "backup system" feature you go on this and it copies your saves etc. onto the external hard drive.. then you just copy it all back over onto the new one when you install it
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"grainger said:

"pause422 said:

"How does getting  your data to the new hard drive go to with that process btw? I have yet to need to upgrade it,i'll but after a few more full dlc downloads i'll need to very soon.
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you need an external hard drive and you connect it to your ps3 then in the settings there is a "backup system" feature you go on this and it copies your saves etc. onto the external hard drive.. then you just copy it all back over onto the new one when you install it
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Ahh, I didn't have one thus I didn't do that :P
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No, but I plan on upping my hd to 320gb, only $120 off newegg.com

"No, but I plan on upping my hd to 320gb, only $120 off newegg.com
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if i upgrade my hard drive and i want to play all of my games again. if i sign into my id will all of my friends be there or do i have to add them again? and does my rank in online games get lost or are they saved into my id?

"if i upgrade my hard drive and i want to play all of my games again. if i sign into my id will all of my friends be there or do i have to add them again? and does my rank in online games get lost or are they saved into my id?
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"shadows_kill said:

"if i upgrade my hard drive and i want to play all of my games again. if i sign into my id will all of my friends be there or do i have to add them again? and does my rank in online games get lost or are they saved into my id?
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your ranks and friends are saved with your psn account which is stored online for a start, to play your games which you have saved from the point at whch you have saved them you will need to back up your ps3 hard drive using an external storage device"

"grainger said:

"shadows_kill said:

"if i upgrade my hard drive and i want to play all of my games again. if i sign into my id will all of my friends be there or do i have to add them again? and does my rank in online games get lost or are they saved into my id?
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your ranks and friends are saved with your psn account which is stored online for a start, to play your games which you have saved from the point at whch you have saved them you will need to back up your ps3 hard drive using an external storage device"

but if i dont do back up ill only lose my saves and installed games? cause i want to go through them again for the trophies (like uncharted).
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"shadows_kill said:

"grainger said:

"shadows_kill said:

"if i upgrade my hard drive and i want to play all of my games again. if i sign into my id will all of my friends be there or do i have to add them again? and does my rank in online games get lost or are they saved into my id?
"

your ranks and friends are saved with your psn account which is stored online for a start, to play your games which you have saved from the point at whch you have saved them you will need to back up your ps3 hard drive using an external storage device"

but if i dont do back up ill only lose my saves and installed games? cause i want to go through them again for the trophies (like uncharted).
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you don't lose them but they wont be on the new hard drive, they'll still be on the old one"

"grainger said:

"shadows_kill said:

"grainger said:

"shadows_kill said:

"if i upgrade my hard drive and i want to play all of my games again. if i sign into my id will all of my friends be there or do i have to add them again? and does my rank in online games get lost or are they saved into my id?
"

your ranks and friends are saved with your psn account which is stored online for a start, to play your games which you have saved from the point at whch you have saved them you will need to back up your ps3 hard drive using an external storage device"

but if i dont do back up ill only lose my saves and installed games? cause i want to go through them again for the trophies (like uncharted).
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you don't lose them but they wont be on the new hard drive, they'll still be on the old one"

ok cause i dont want to lose anything important. idc reinstall all of my games or playing them again cause thats what i want to do :P
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is there any thing i need to do while putting in the new one? like not doing that while doing ?

"is there any thing i need to do while putting in the new one? like not doing that while doing ?
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like if i do something will it kill the hard drive or the ps3? i have a step by step but im not sure if it includes all of the warnings :P

lol, when putting the new one i you have to make sure it goes back all the way and snaps it place i think, dont lose any screws... really just the basic common sense stuff

"lol, when putting the new one i you have to make sure it goes back all the way and snaps it place i think, dont lose any screws... really just the basic common sense stuff"

well i havent done it yet lol... so... you know. :P

I haven't yet, but i probably will

One hundred million GB's...

Upgraded to a 250gb for about 100 bucks.

Screw you microsoft!

"Kush said:

"No and I never will! I hate the reasoning behind having to upgrade it...
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what reasoning is that??? im curious"

I have. It's a must. It's cheap too.

I haven't yet. Had my PS3 over a year, and still have plenty of harddrive space.

500GB baby!!

Not yet 60GB for me seems fine for right now.  Maybe if i started downloading movies and putting all my mp3's then maybe I will upgrade my HD.

"Upgraded to a 250gb for about 100 bucks.

Screw you microsoft!
"

"Lingxor said:

"Upgraded to a 250gb for about 100 bucks.

Screw you microsoft!
"

That's pretty cheap!
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No, but I will have to if these installs keep up.

I'll probably upgrade it sometime next year. HDD prices are going down, so I'm just waiting.

Nope, I likely won't either.

Haven't seen the need, still plenty of space left on mine.

I probably will as well...

i haven't yet but i can't wait to upgrade so i can partition the drive and install linux

I want to but HD TV's are expensive.

"I want to but HD TV's are expensive.
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no i haven't but hope to do soon.

How big?

Nope, but I want to, when a better wifi enabled version of linux comes out for the PS3 i will update it then.

I have like 10-13 GBs left which is enough for right now. And I can delete game data for games i dont play nemore (AC, NGS, UT3)

But i want to and will someday upgrade

Yup, I upgraded from a 40GB drive to a 250GB one.