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PS3 External HD question

post #1 of 6
12/12/07 at 11:58am
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can i use a external hd to save all my music and movies onto instead of replacing the original hd. do i need to do any special formatting for it?
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post #2 of 6
12/12/07 at 2:44pm

Re: PS3 External HD question

I haven't done this myself so I don't know first-hand from experience, but I believe the PS3 cannot access NTFS formatted drives. I'm pretty sure FAT/FAT32 are ok though.
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post #3 of 6
12/12/07 at 3:09pm

Re: PS3 External HD question

Yes, must be FAT32. You cannot copy any downloaded games or installed game content to the external drive (game saves and options can be copied), but you can store photos, music and movies for sure. I am using a 320G with mine currently.
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post #4 of 6
12/12/07 at 3:15pm
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Re: PS3 External HD question

i have a 250 gig external i want to use but isnt there a limit for fat32 as far as hd size?
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post #5 of 6
12/12/07 at 3:54pm

Re: PS3 External HD question

Yes there is techincally but there are any number of programs that are capable of doing it. I used fat32format and it is working fine, should be able to find it for free download (google...)
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post #6 of 6
12/12/07 at 3:57pm

Re: PS3 External HD question

According to this site Fat32 limits are 2TB for a volume size, and 4GB for a file size. I know old versions of windows had limits on formatting over a certain volume size for FAT32, but that was a limit imposed by Windows and not by the file system. I have a 160GB external HD which I have formatted as FAT32 (using OSX) with no problems whatsoever.
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