500GB PS3 hard drive lands

[benstevens]

very nice indeed!!!!

[WHERESMYMONKEY]

or you could buy yourself 1TB buffalo external HDD for less.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/177367
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[only_777]

Waste of time Sony.
If the HDD is not built-in you can only put video/music and photos on it.
And Ext HDD's for the PS3 need to be formated in FAT32 to work. Sony need to get NTFS drives working on the PS3.
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[stedman]

Yes NTFS on the ps3 ! DO IT !

[WHERESMYMONKEY]

did you even read the article. It's obviously to cater for video information from a new service that's being launched in japan. If you want a bigger HDD for game saves just shove a bigger SATA drive in. Its not exactly difficult.
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[goatmms]

WHERESMYMONKEY if you even understood what they were talking about, you'd know that Fat32 has a filesize limit, so NTFS is quite important for storing large video files (:

[ricflair]

Surely nobody should have video files of that size unless they've been ripping/downloading somethings they shouldn't have been??

[backcue]

...like super gay HD 3D porn??

[only_777]

[WHERESMYMONKEY]

NTFS is a much better storage format. but you are completely missing the point. This is for a system that will more than likely be giving content in standard def. your average SD film runs in at about 700 mb a time HD between 3.5 and 4.gb.

Unless you are going to start editing video the bitrates that suff is going to be recorded at on it is simply not necessary.
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[zelamy]

i've already got a 1tb external hard drive that works perfectly with the ps3.
you can get a terabyte for under a hundred quid now.

[Mmmmgrolsch]

To all the people that want a external hard drive supported by the PS3 almost all of them are compatible.

@ the people that say fat32 has a limit of 4GB you are wrong! You can format in fat32 on windows with a maximum size of 32GB but you can use a file manager and format a entire 1TB if you want

its not rocket science!
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[robbo1337]

HFS for the win.

Seriously though, if you are gonna spend £100 on an external 500gb drive then you are a fool. £60 gets you a nice internal £500 2.5" SATA drive which won't be limited by USB 2.0 transfer speeds.
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[hippooo]

@Mmmmgrolsch
Yes, but the previous posters are talking about a different 'limit' with FAT32.
You can format the drive to any size you like as you say, but the actual files you save on a FAT32 formatted drive have to be 4GB or under.
It is NOT possible to save a 4GB+ file on a FAT32 formatted drive. PERIOD.

Try it yourself, or google it.
Its not rocket science!

[hippooo]

[only_777]

[Mmmmgrolsch]

I have no problem backing up my 320gb harddrive onto a external fat32 harddrive, and I have blu-ray films on my external harddrive bigger than 6gb.
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