I wonder if this was a calculated move by sony to get us all to buy the slim when it comes out, lol. I mean I thought it was just mine but this seems to be about the life span of the 60GB

Why did the YLOD take so long to hit on Vgchartz?

I have considered doing this myself although I have come to the realization that I actually prefer playing PS2 games on the PS3. Unlimited memory cards, upscaling and image smoothing (often better turned off though) as well as being able to use the wireless DS3.

Of course thinking of it as a really expensive PS2/BD player doesn't exactly help. 

The pros for the slim would be better portability, lower heat and lower power use, but those aren't worth trading a 60GB SKU away.

I may well end up with a third PS3 when the slim drops price in another year or two.

What about if I bought a HDD 6 times the size of the Microsoft one and at the same cost for the same size for a PS3 one?

Computer store, Im ordering a 120GB WD HDD for my 360 and im going to flash the firmware.

Teh C3LL is indestructible and infallible. Just sometimes it gets annoyed and refuses to work. A $150 spa treatment puts it in a good mood again, or you can just buy a new PS3, and the old C3LL is sent to power Sony's fleet of Star Destroyers.

There should be a poll to see how many PS3 users actually

a) regularly back up their PS3

b) regularly copy their latest game saves

c) occasionally back up their PS3 (six months ago. once)

d) occasionally back up their game saves (holy crap, I have to start back WHERE on all my games?)

e) "back the what up now?"

Unfortunately, doing a full back up is the only way to copy "protected" game save data that cannot be copied by any other means. It's one of the issues I'd like to see addressed in future firmware updates although it's probably deemed low priority as I'm going to guess most users have never used the PS3 back up function at all if they even know it exists.

Once I have over 300GB on my main PS3, I may have to pick up another larger external drive to fully back it up (may well just buy a multi TB NAS eventually to back up all my computer systems). Many would also be less likely to do back ups on high cap drives due to the length of time it takes (200GB+ took hours to back up and restore).

But a cheap 500GB external drive will handily back up any current size 2.5" SATA drive that fits in the PS3.

^Oh great, you just reminded me I haven't backed up saves in AGES. Why isn't there an option to copy ALL the saves instead of doing it one by one?

SONY STOP GIVING US USELESS FEATURES THAT NOBODY CARES ABOUT AND MAKE A USEFUL FIRMWARE UPDATE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE JUNE LAST YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If mine dies FML

I've had 2 60gb's YLOD. I'd advice you to wait for the PS3 slim (like I am) instead of getting the 160gb but then I have the ps3 of someone who doesn't use it at all while you may have nothing to fall back on. It's up to you..