So my PS3 is on the way. I have a question. Is there any difference between using the internal HDD or using an external USB HDD? I'm asking because I can get a 500GB USB HDD for about the same price as a 200GB 2.5" internal drive.
So is there anything I CAN'T use the external drive for? What's are the pros to the internal drive?
The external drive is useful for storing videos, pictures, and music. You can also make back-ups of some data like game saves and I think the PS3 can backup all it's important data to an external hard drive (or pen drive) if you want to reformat it's hard drive. It can't store your game demo's or PSN games or stuff like that.
For example, I can have my internal hard drive store all my demo's, PSN games, and such while I can hook up mine or my room mate's external hard drive to watch some videos or something like that.
Thx. I'm thinking I'll probably just upgrade the internal drive.
One of my problems with the PS3 is the way it accesses the external drive. Now it is a nice feature which not even the 360 can do, but the drive has to be FAT32, and you can only access files that are two file levels deep at most. I organize my stuff very well (by seasons, subfolders, etc.), which doesn't translate well to the PS3 interface. It makes them inacessible unless i go back to my PS3 and dick around with it.
Regardless, it is still useful, although I must say the Divx and Xvid support hasn't been as good as I hoped. Better than nothing though and I expect it to only get better.
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No problem,
I forgot to mention that you can get an external hard drive pretty cheaply too, but I guess the trade off would be you'd have to plug it into the wall for power (there are probably USB powered ones though, but I have no idea of their cost). You also have to format either the entire hard drive (or a smaller partition) to FAT32 for the PS3 to see it, which isn't really a negative but important to note if you do ever try to use/get an external hard drive on the PS3.
Then again, you could just get the 2.5" hard drive to replace the internal one and do the exact same thing very easily. Just make sure you backup your data.
| akuma587 said: One of my problems with the PS3 is the way it accesses the external drive. Now it is a nice feature which not even the 360 can do, but the drive has to be FAT32, and you can only access files that are two file levels deep at most. I organize my stuff very well (by seasons, subfolders, etc.), which doesn't translate well to the PS3 interface. It makes them inacessible unless i go back to my PS3 and dick around with it. Regardless, it is still useful, although I must say the Divx and Xvid support hasn't been as good as I hoped. Better than nothing though and I expect it to only get better. |
I believe you can connect an external HDD to a 360 as well and do similar things. My room mate says he does it and many of the movies he has on his hard drive play on his 360 while they don't on my PS3.
Thanks everyone.
I'll likely get an internal 250 GB drive. Looks like they can be had for around $140 or so.
I guess I'll see ya on PSN sometime. :)
I'll likely be playing Oblivion for a while as that is the only game I've go right now for the PS3. I'm sure once SSBB comes out, my PS3 time will decrease substantially for a while.
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