With a sleek, brushed cover, this self-powered hard drive works with both USB 3.0 and 2.0 connections. It's also available in capacities from 120GB to 1.5TB. Maxone 500GB Ultra-Slim External Hard Step 1: At first, try to connect your ps3 external hard drive with your PC. But in the meantime, the file system will resist the external hard drive from being compatible with PS 3. Here the problem is unlike Windows, PlayStation can’t read NTFS and it demands to format all external devices with FAT or FAT32. Step 2: Needless to say, most disc based games do not require storing parts of the game onto the hard drive. Those that do generally only do it during run-time (e.g. textures left on the swap space). This means most of the game data is loaded from the disc. The PS3's USB 2 speeds blow the Blu Ray's 2X speed out of the water -- even if you were to Just to clarify- USB is fine for backing up saves and storing music/video files, but games are limited to the PS3 system drive - ie. the internal one. If you want to upgrade the internal disk you need an SATA 2.5" drive of 5400rpm (some have reported heat issues with 7200) with a 9.5mm depth. This is basically a bog-standard laptop hard disk. It doesn't work that way. The PS3 uses the backup utility in its settings and can only make hard drive backups on a USB stick, it allows you to create a clone of the hard drive like a recovery point. What you are attempting to do is not any of the ps3s options presented in its manual. You can't connect your ps3 to your PC, it's not an option as You don't need to pre-format the Hard Drive. Delete the FAT32 partition on the drive and just slap that sucker in. The PS3 will format it to the proper file system that the PS3 uses. A PS3 can READ FAT32 but doesn't use FAT32 for it's operating system. deep1986. qF4Xq.

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