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Sony considering external PS3 HDD?
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 8th May 2008
Sony has implied it would be interested in endorsing official external hard drives for the PlayStation 3.
Speaking to Eurogamer, Reeves implied that he personally wanted to see storage expanded in this way and that, after ditching the 60GB PS3 for a 40GB model, the company may want to offer more space to users.
"We launched with 60GB and to reduce the price we went to 40GB. We're not sure we want to stay with that configuration of hard drive, and I think what you're going to see in the future is maybe consumers can choose," said Reeves.
"The PlayStation will stay the same, but consumers can choose whichever size of hard drive they want. They can now, or course, because it's not a proprietary hard drive."
"It might be that we will offer the possibility for people to have a bigger hard drive, but they have that option now. But it does not mean that we have anything in the works to introduce a different model or bigger hard drive built in," added Reeves.
Currently, PlayStation 3 users can attach external drives using a USB attachment or by swapping out the internal hard drive with another 2.5 inch SATA model. Sony has not yet released an official model though.
"We've played the games with the hardware, with different hard drives and things like that, and we want to keep it very, very simple. We know that works. We've got a very, very low return rate on the machines that are out; we've got a great supplier, so we'll keep that simple. We're just going to play the tunes with the games, both at retail and online."
Would you be interested in picking up an external drive, or does the prospect of paying more for an official model turn you off? Let us know in the forums.
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So what's the problem? Who wants insanely overpriced 'officially endorsed' hard drives?
LOL! Totally Argee
As long as the Official drive has a proper 'off' switch. I greatly dislike external drives that don't have the ability to turn them off without unplugging them. :(
Sam
Please don't say that. Nor should you refer to Joe Bloggs, Everyday Joe, Joe Public or any variation thereof.
Asking for a Hot Cup of Joe is also prohibited.
I apologise. It's a phrase I've used for too many years for me to stop completely, however, so it might still occasionally slip through. ;)
That's all kinds of wrong.
Back to the subject at...err...hand, it would be nice if they at least made an enclosure that 'matched' the PS3 in some way - it's got fairly unique styling, and having a square USB HDD plugged into it would sort of ruin it - maybe a 2.5" enclosure in the same shape as the PS3 itself?
The 360 and the PS3 are both such awkward shapes and refuse to stack. I gave up and put mine upright behind my TV. You can't even see the thing!
Also can an external drive be used for saving etc?
As for aesthetics, I have a MyBook which I think will fit quite well next to the ps3.
Joe...what's wrong with those phrases!? You copyrighting them or somethin?!
500GB external, aren't that expensive.......
Ive barely touched the capacity on my 40GB.. It was the same when I had a 20GB XBOX. Until movies on demand actually works and isnt locked down via DRM bull, then I swear the PS3 and XBOX could make do with a 20GB HD for the vast majority of owners.
As for the rest (1%) Im sure an external HD would suffice just fine.
With home coming and perhaps iptv, the latter particularly will eat 40GB in no time. It's dead easy to swap, too. Just got to make sure you at least back up your savegames.
I think Sony knows how to price their products unlike M$.
And why not swap the internal into an enclosure and put a bigger drive in to replace it, its only a few screws. I was going to replace my laptop hd and put the old one in the PS3 and pretty much double the storage capacity in both of them, plus then I can use linux on it and not worry about space. The PS3 native divix support is terrible.
Yep, you can plug a external usb drive into a ps3 and stream video off it. Also I have a 320gb Mybook myself which works fine with the PS3 streaming videos.
Im not sure if you can save games directly onto a external drive. Never really tried it. However you can backup your save games onto one by copying it across. You can basicly transfer any video, music, pictures, games onto a external drive no problem, because sony has not locked the system like MS have with the 360. Anything on your 360 hard drive stays on it.
You also have a option in the system menu to backup your entire ps3 hard drive onto a external drive.
But as Samkillar mentioned, you really wont one of these bad boys in the pc for only £75
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/productinfo.asp?WebProductID=787113
MS would probably charge £300 for the same drive on 360 if they made anything bigger than 120GB.
In many of the PS3 pics, it looks like the PS3 is actually flat.
http://z.about.com/d/playstation/1/7/Q/6/Img3574_tif_jpgcopy.jpg
And man does it look so much better!
Why would a 20GB drop in HD capacity equate to much savings in price? Most of the parts are the same right? So in theory, a 60GB should not cost significantly more than a 40GB drive. Am I missing something here? My girlfriend's IPOD classic has an 80GB capacity and its smaller than a pack of smokes.
Sony are overpriced a lot with most things, but it's the name you pay for.
It'll be just as overpriced as MSes are, look in a shop, the official memory cards for PS2s are still going for £20 or so.
It probably only made a saving of $10 (or maybe less), but if you think about it $10 X 1,000,000 (units sold) = $10 Million so you can see why they might like to save $10 bucks per unit when they are losing money on each console sale.
http://vgstrategies.about.com/od/ps3cheatsandcodes/a/PS3HDDDriveSwap.htm
Marine... that's an excellent walk-through link...
I know a lot of people have trouble with step 7 of that walk through. The screws that hold the HDD in the caddy are right bitches to get out, if you can't get them out don't force them, try different screwdrivers or call Sony for a complete replacement caddy.
I wish the PS3 had USB ports on the back too, PlayTV and external HDDs would benefit from that.
FYI - anyone considering PlayTV buy the largest HDD you can get your hands on, especially if you are like me and tape stuff but don't watch right away, PlayTV records shows in Mpeg2 direct from the transport stream so a hour long proggie on BBC1 can be about 1.6Gb, my 200Gb HDD is down to about 40Gb at the mo :eek:
You can export programs from PlayTV and archive them but again far too many steps for me.
The trick is to 'tighten' them slightly, then they come out a bit easier. I guess it's because they're machined in rather than hand-screwed at the factory, making them a very snug fit!