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Diesel Phreak · 12-24-08

I wish you could do this on the 360.

pow3rtr1p · 12-24-08

Are there any aftermarket Slot-Loading Blu Ray Drives for the adventurous modders? I'd love to see someone swap it for like an 8x drive, and a 7200 RPM HDD, just to see how much faster the game installs are.

Argh, I just looked it up, and the only Slot-Loading Blu Ray drives on Newegg are Sony 2X Drives, lol. Talk about a useless upgrade.

Vaughn · 12-26-08

When I placed my new hard drive into my ps3 it stated "Cannot start. The correct hard disk was not found." Can anyone help me with this problem? Thanks in advance

KANJIBANKERS · 01-07-09

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Originally Posted by Vaughn

When I placed my new hard drive into my ps3 it stated "Cannot start. The correct hard disk was not found." Can anyone help me with this problem? Thanks in advance

I replaced mine last night with a new Seagate Momentus 5400.6 ST9500325AS 500GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive - OEM drive.

Mine did the same thing after I started it up and formatted. But I restarted the PS3 by holding the power button and then it worked fine.

Does anybody know why this might happen and is there any need for concern?

Its working fine now, I installed the most recent system update and all seems well.

**stanrc** · 01-07-09

There was a comparison that showed the gains from a 7200 RPM drive was minimal.

Art0_Saar1 · 01-09-09

A 1Tb external HDD??? iv seen a 1Tb drive go for $150 and an enclosure for $20
Could i just buy the 1Tb drive put it in an external enclosure and plug it into my ps3 threw usb, WILL IT WORK?

What do i need to do to make it work?

**stanrc** · 01-10-09

Yes you can hook up external HDDs, but they have to be fat32 which has a smaller partition size limit I believe.

Art0_Saar1 · 01-10-09

K, im guessing 32Gb a partition but will the ps3 see all the partitions as one or will i have 100 32gb partitions...

Also i saw something saying ps3 cant edit files on an external drive... is this true?

**stanrc** · 01-10-09

Well I can see that being true, usually if you are hooking up an external drive you are just using it to view and play media files, or backup/upload saved game files. I'm not sure what else you could really do with it.

Art0_Saar1 · 01-14-09

Does it matter if i get a 5400 or 7200 RPM hdd??

I see a few posts before mine mention theres little difference

01-09-09	#86 (permalink)
Art0_Saar1 New to Overclock.net Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5 Rep: 0 Unique Rep: 0 Trader Rating: 0	How about A 1Tb external HDD??? iv seen a 1Tb drive go for $150 and an enclosure for $20 Could i just buy the 1Tb drive put it in an external enclosure and plug it into my ps3 threw usb, WILL IT WORK? What do i need to do to make it work?

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Art0_Saar1 New to Overclock.net Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5 Rep: 0 Unique Rep: 0 Trader Rating: 0	Does it matter if i get a 5400 or 7200 RPM hdd?? I see a few posts before mine mention theres little difference Last edited by Art0_Saar1 : 01-26-09 at 03:18 PM Reason: DUH

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How To: PS3 Hard Drive Swap

12-26-08	#83 (permalink)
Vaughn New to Overclock.net Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1 Rep: 0 Unique Rep: 0 Trader Rating: 0	When I placed my new hard drive into my ps3 it stated "Cannot start. The correct hard disk was not found." Can anyone help me with this problem? Thanks in advance

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Art0_Saar1 New to Overclock.net Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5 Rep: 0 Unique Rep: 0 Trader Rating: 0	K, im guessing 32Gb a partition but will the ps3 see all the partitions as one or will i have 100 32gb partitions... Also i saw something saying ps3 cant edit files on an external drive... is this true?

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