sajj316 said:Just went through the install w/o any problems. Now running a 320 MB HDD and loving it!
*high five*
sajj316 said:Just went through the install w/o any problems. Now running a 320 MB HDD and loving it!
Mejilan said:*high five*
Pein said:SO I was trying to replace my hard drive and I accidentally stripped the blue screw, wtf do I know?
Beardz said:
gcubed said:have you tried formatting your new hard drive again, restoring to default, going back to your old ps3, manually copying the saves off of it and copying them onto the new ps3?
This assumes you have access to your old one
It's your external hdd for sure. Happened to me as well. What you should do is when the ps3 reboots after formating your newly installed internal hdd, don't press anything. Just reboot your external hdd. After that, press your controllers PS button and your ps3 should see your backup file.PuMa said:Sooo I just tried installing my new 320 gb hard drive.... and of course nothing is ever as simple as it should be for me. I guess that's just my luck. Anywho, I did a backup to an external hd (formatted to fat32), and everything was going fine. Next, I swapped my hard drives and tried to perform the restore from my backup data and I keep getting a message saying that there is no backup data. This message comes up after selecting my external hard drive and the supposed backup file from the ps3 menu. After several tries, I swapped the ps3 hard drives and tried the backup utility again. Did the swap and ran the restore....same message. What gives???! Any have this happen before? I was really hoping this was going to be an easy process, but of course there are always problems. :-(
mintylurb said:It's your external hdd for sure. Happened to me as well. What you should do is when the ps3 reboots after formating your newly installed internal hdd, don't press anything. Just reboot your external hdd. After that, press your controllers PS button and your ps3 should see your backup file.
This happens because your ext hdd goes into idle mode when the ps3 reboots.
sajj316 said:Thanks for creating the thread! It was the catalyst in me ordering and running with the installation of the new HDD.
Kccitystar said:I know its' a long shot but
sync trophy data
backup data
deactivate the old PS3 from your account
activate new PS3 on your account
restore data on new ps3
see if that works
Bugnology said:Sorry if I'm too lazy to search but how can I deactivate my 20go PS3 before selling it? I'm planning to buy an Euro PS3 soon after selling the US model.
Let's say I shared my main PSN account with 3 people plus my console, so if you add my account that makes four. If I deactivate my main PSN account on MY PS3, that means I will still have 2 PS3s to use with my account?
I hope this post is clear enough. Thanks.
I was worried about the save data since you can't back it up to a thumb drive but there it is that the save data makes the move as well. Awesome.Surprisingly yes. I originally went under the assumption that none of the RB data would be transferred since you can't actually copy the savedata over from account to account on the same PS3 but lo-and-behold, everything was in tact.
All DLC's, all exports, all trophies (resync from website), all accounts, all demos, all savedata, all etc else.
Then what?Beardz said:Go to account management, there you will find "activate system" or something like that, there you can activate and deactivate your account.
bune duggy said:alright, I'm feeling stupid. How do I make my ipod so it will be my backup drive? I have an 80GB classic and the PS3 isn't recognizing it. I did the whole restore thing that was mentioned a few pages ago and that didn't change things. I know it has to be FAT32 but my format options are exFAT and NTFS.
Bugnology said:Then what?
It will count as (-1) activated console or not?
Thnaks for your answer.
Luigison said:I used weaKnees a few years ago to get an upgrade HDD and installation kit for my TiVo and was very happy with the service and hardware.
Has anyone upgraded a PS3 with weaKnees or know anyone who has?
http://weaknees.com/ps3-upgrade.php
If so please post about the experience and if possible, what speed and cache size they used.
I just completed an install of the same type of 320 GB 7200 rpm Seagate HD. Funny thing was that I ordered it before I read your thread. Guess we´ve done a similar market analysis. However, after I noticed that the 7200 rpm hardly improved the startup time of games installed on the hard drive (I benchmarked Burnout Paradise, GT Prologue and SDHD) I kind of regret I didn´t go for the 500 GB Samsung drive which has really good transfer speed but lacks in seek times, it wasn´t that more expensive. Anyways the 7200 rpm drive will probably save me a few seconds here and there during game play, believe.Mejilan said:*high five*
Thanks for reminding, I think that was another thing that I factored in. It was also speced for ambient 65 degree Celsius, which is pretty good.Mejilan said:Seagate drives are typically fantastic. Also, 5 year warranties.
Gaaah... my grip sucks or something, they won't move. Seems like i am stripping the outside of the screw with the pliers now.....Mejilan said:Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey. Pliers are definitely the way to go.
Okay.. well, this picture shows that I don't know how to use pliers... got two of them to move (the semi-stripped ones) two more to go! Thanks!Beardz said:With some pliers you can use THIS PART to unscrew them, for me, it was easier this way.
I never buy anything else. Seagates are the most reliable drives in my experience and I've dealt with a LOT of drives.rkenshin said:man, I hear Seagate HDDs are dying left and right these days.. I hope my Seagate 320gb hdd won't die in my ps3 in less than 3 months
In the wake of freezing issues with Seagate's 1.5TB drives comes yet another problem with the Barracuda 7200.11 series. Failure rates of the 1TB drives in particular are abnormally high, but Seagate has not acknowledged the problem.
Now 11 pages long, the "official" problem discussion thread on the Seagate support forums is full of users reporting problems with the ST31000340AS, the 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 drive.
One user built a 6TB RAID array three months ago. In two months, one of the drives failed. A second drive failed about a month later, and a third eight days after that. Another user had four out of five of their drives fail within 12 days of purchase. Reports of failures can also be found on other forums as well. Some data recovery and RMA centers have reported failure rates of approximately 30 to 40 percent, but Seagate has not released any official information.
The issue lies with faulty microcode in firmware version SD15, found on drives manufactured in Thailand. Generally, the drive will operate normally until the time of failure and at some point will lock up and prevent detection by the BIOS, rendering it completely unusable.
While Seagate has not publicly acknowledged the problem as of yet, they have reportedly updated the firmware on all newly manufactured drives, however the firmware cannot be update on drives that have already failed because the BIOS does not even detect them. This means that owners of affected drives require data recovery services to save their critical data.
No recall on unsold drives with the affected firmware has been issued.
Update: Seagate has acknowledged the problem and is providing firmware updates through customer support. Additionally, if your hard drive has already failed, Seagate will provide free data recovery services, since the data is not actually affected.
Yeah. The backwards compatibility stays with the system, not the HD.cann3dheat said:So, question: If my girlfriend has a PS2-BC PS3, and I have one of the new 80GB models, if I swap the hard drives and take her PS3, will I now have PS2-BC?
Awesome, once she gets hers back from Sony I'll swap it out.Schrade said:Yeah. The backwards compatibility stays with the system, not the HD.
And by the way.. how in the hell did you let your girlfriend get a PS3 before you?
I always use what space that is available. It´s really neat to keep videos, pictures for slide shows as well as my music library right on the disk and avoid the hassle of dlna and USB disks. Nice to have it available everytime I turn on the PS3. (Well, from now I will have my music library there).Mejilan said:I expect a future firmware update to more properly make use of faster drives. Also, I believe currently, the increased cache has a more tangible effect than the higher RPM value. I too hesitated over getting a 500GB drive (as I did for my PS2), but frankly, I'll never use the 320. Until the PS3 gets 360-like full installs, 320 is more than enough, and any additional speed gains (however minor right now) are a nice bonus. As was the cheaper price.
That ain't even half a sandwhich!sajj316 said:Just went through the install w/o any problems. Now running a 320 MB HDD and loving it!
YoungHav said:PS1/PS2 virtual memory cards backup, amirite?
Spy said:I installed the SSD and I can definitely notice how load times went up.
Meant down, sorry.avaya said:
The current SSDs are much faster and at a budget price. Gamespot tested an older model that was 120MB/s read and 40MB/s write. Mine is 150MB/s read and 100MB/s write.Luigison said:How do the current SSDs compare to the one tested here: http://www.gamespot.com/features/6192258/index.html
MrTroubleMaker said:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152114
SAMSUNG Spinpoint M6 HM500LI 500GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
works great, been using this drive for a few months now