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[Dr Frasier Crane]

So due to having had PSN Plus for 4 years and the awesome deals you can get my lowly PS3 is reach the limit of it's 1TB hard drive I have in there.

I'd like to upgrade it to 2TB but I've heard/read inside the internet that the max size you can use is 1TB.

Does anyone know the answer? Has anyone slid a larger hard drive into their PS3's slot?

 

[Creaking]

So due to having had PSN Plus for 4 years and the awesome deals you can get my lowly PS3 is reach the limit of it's 1TB hard drive I have in there.

I'd like to upgrade it to 2TB but I've heard/read inside the internet that the max size you can use is 1TB.

Does anyone know the answer? Has anyone slid a larger hard drive into their PS3's slot?

There have got to be some games you haven't touched in 4 years. What's wrong with deleting a couple? They'll still be tied to your account.



In other words, I can't tell you, I'm still several hundred gigabytes away from filling my 750GB HDD

 

[mthw]

2TB is fine, check out the reviews
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-9-5mm-SATA-Internal-Drive/dp/B00I8O6OQ4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409217892&sr=8-1&keywords=2.5-inch+9mm+hard+drive

 

[Donos]

There have got to be some games you haven't touched in 4 years. What's wrong with deleting a couple? They'll still be tied to your account.



In other words, I can't tell you, I'm still several hundred gigabytes away from filling my 750GB HDD

dat 1080p pron ...

 

[Dr Frasier Crane]

2TB is fine, check out the reviews
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-9-5mm-SATA-Internal-Drive/dp/B00I8O6OQ4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409217892&sr=8-1&keywords=2.5-inch+9mm+hard+drive

Those reviews only cover up to the 1TB version of that not the 2TB.

 

[Dr Frasier Crane]

There have got to be some games you haven't touched in 4 years. What's wrong with deleting a couple? They'll still be tied to your account.



In other words, I can't tell you, I'm still several hundred gigabytes away from filling my 750GB HDD

I like to have them all available. Also with over 2000 items on my download list I've completely forgotten what I've actually got.

 

[mthw]

Those reviews only cover up to the 1TB version of that not the 2TB.

ah shit, sorry

 

[Brad Grenz]

The 2TB drive Digital Foundry recommends for upgrading the PS4 should also fit in a PS3 since it is a 9.5mm tall, 2.5 inch laptop drive.

 

[Dr Frasier Crane]

The 2TB drive Digital Foundry recommends for upgrading the PS4 should also fit in a PS3 since it is a 9.5mm tall, 2.5 inch laptop drive.

Yeah I saw that. Whilst it may fit I want to know if it'll work. I've seen unconfirmed reports around the internet that it doesn't and before I spend £65 on one to tear it open (which I can't then return) I want to know it's going to work

 

[mrklaw]

Yeah I saw that. Whilst it may fit I want to know if it'll work. I've seen unconfirmed reports around the internet that it doesn't and before I spend £65 on one to tear it open (which I can't then return) I want to know it's going to work

why wouldn't it? its a 9.5mm 2.5" HDD.

 

[jediyoshi]

Those reviews only cover up to the 1TB version of that not the 2TB.

Were you just looking for reviews? Everything about the actual product listing is explicitly saying it works with the PS3.

 

[Fitts]

Yeah I saw that. Whilst it may fit I want to know if it'll work. I've seen unconfirmed reports around the internet that it doesn't and before I spend £65 on one to tear it open (which I can't then return) I want to know it's going to work

You can't return it after opening? That's ludicrous... try a different retailer.

Unfortunately, I have only read unconfirmed reports on a 2TB working in a PS3 myself. 500GB has done the job for the generation for me, but I tend to delete what I no longer play/watch.

 

[Dr Frasier Crane]

why wouldn't it? its a 9.5mm 2.5" HDD.

If you do a google for "PS3 2TB" you'll see a load of people saying that they connect them and they don't work. So I'm trying to see if anyone here has done it.

 

[Dr Frasier Crane]

Were you just looking for reviews? Everything about the actual product listing is explicitly saying it works with the PS3.

Not the 2TB version, all the reviews refer to the 1TB.

 

[andshrew]

Don't think that 2TB drive works unfortunately, I looked into doing the same. 1.5TB is probably the biggest if you can find one that physically fits.

 

[MNC]

I like to have them all available. Also with over 2000 items on my download list I've completely forgotten what I've actually got.

Yeah, about that. Is there a way to view only purchased items and not every fucking demo as well?

 

[Creaking]

I like to have them all available. Also with over 2000 items on my download list I've completely forgotten what I've actually got.

I guess I can't fault you for not wanting to deal with the awful unorganized download list with 2000+ items.

 

[Dr Frasier Crane]

Yeah, about that. Is there a way to view only purchased items and not every fucking demo as well?

Nope and when your PSN Plus renews it fucks up the ordering for all your PSN Plus things bringing them all to the front.

 

[Brad Grenz]

If you do a google for "PS3 2TB" you'll see a load of people saying that they connect them and they don't work. So I'm trying to see if anyone here has done it.

Have you looked at the dates for those reports? There used to be a size limit to what the firmware would recognize, but that was removed a couple years ago AFAIK.

 

[Dr Frasier Crane]

Have you looked at the dates for those reports? There used to be a size limit to what the firmware would recognize, but that was removed a couple years ago AFAIK.

Restrict it to posts in the last month and you still see it come up.

I guess I'll just ask Sony!

 

[Fisty]

Yea max size PS3 recognizes is 2tb, but thats external, dont know about internal. No idea why it would be different tho, they did raise the HDD size limit many times over the years.

I just put a 1tb Samsung EVO in my ps4... really wish an SSD would make more of an impact in the ps3

Also, dont bother asking Sony, they cant say it works without official testing each drive, which they wont do

 

[Bowl0l]

@Dr Frasier Crane, whats the largest HDD you have installed in your PS3?

 

[kamorra]

Yeah, about that. Is there a way to view only purchased items and not every fucking demo as well?

Use this: http://repod.github.io/psdle/

 

[Glasshole]

I can only speak for my experience: I tried a 2tb drive, and it didn't work. I then bought the 1tb version of the same drive, which worked flawlessly.

Now, which drive that was, I have no idea.

 

[Bowl0l]

I can only speak for my experience: I tried a 2tb drive, and it didn't work. I then bought the 1tb version of the same drive, which worked flawlessly.

Now, which drive that was, I have no idea.

Noted. Now I will upgrade my PS4 HDD instead..

 

[Dr Frasier Crane]

1TB was the most I ever got to work. The 2TB promised land never happened.

 

[REDSLATE]

When I looked into this a couple months ago, I couldn't find anything explicitly stating that 2 TB would work internally. The largest confirmed working, internal HDD I found was 1 TB.

 

[LogicGoat]

I can confirm that a 2TB drive won't work. I tried two different 2TB drives on my PS3 (slim) and both were incompatible.

I don't know if a 1.5 TB drive would work.

 

[Parfait]

Has anyone slid a larger hard drive into their PS3's slot?

 

[Imbarkus]

why wouldn't it? its a 9.5mm 2.5" HDD.

Pretty sure that shit is formatted FAT32. Any external backup drive has to be...

Still not sure why it wouldn't work but goes a long way towards explaining the funkiness therein.