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  • dazuk1972
    Digital Video Specialist
    Digital Video Specialist
    • Jul 2005
    • 853

    PS3 Hard Drive

    What is annoying is, when we want to play a PS3 game for the first time we have to install some data in the hard drive as if we're installing a PC game in the PC. I bought Brothers In Arms that took-up 2GB's of my PS3 hard drive.

    I was wondering, would my Friends List, Mail and Trophies be saved in my PS3 hard drive or would it saved on the internet like Yahoo and Google save Mail and Bookmarks on their servers for us?

    When I have to upgrade my hard drive for a bigger one it's annoying enough that I would have to back-up all my game plays to a memory stick, re-install parts of all my games and copy my game plays into the new hard drive.

    So many people run down the XBox 360 but at least we can load games in the XBox 360 without using-up so much hard drive for one thing. I hope the PS3 doesn't get a moment where we have to upgrade our RAM etc like a PC for newer games. We have to remember, the PS3 is a games console not a PC but why did Sony make the PS3 so stupid in some ways.

    Please let me know what's what because I'm new to the PS3 and I feel like a major data headache is coming. Why couldn't Sony have made the game thing in the PS3 like the way Microsoft did for the XBox 360 where we don't have to install parts of a game. The Xbox 360 first-time-game-play is better because what we play is running from the DVD-ROM only, not parts from the hard drive as well that the PS3 does.

    Many thanks.
  • admin
    Administrator
    • Nov 2001
    • 8954

    #2
    Yeah, the forced "HDD install" is one of the things that even hardcore PS3 fans complain about, especially as some games take half an hour to install. The Xbox 360's method of optional HDD installs is better, but then again, there's more data on the PS3's Blu-ray disc and due to memory and loading issues, without a HDD install, some games won't work well.

    The built-in backup utility is helpful for making backups, and you can connect various devices, including external HDDs (as long as it is FAT32 formatted) to make the backup. This is better than the Xbox 360, as there's no easy way to make backups without buying memory units.

    Not sure which of the data you mentioned is local, and which is online. I think trophies are online, but friends lists may be local.
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    • copyless
      Digital Video Expert
      Digital Video Expert
      • Apr 2006
      • 713

      #3
      Or you could do like I did, and go ahead and bite the bullet now, while you do not have a lot of info on the HDD, and buy a new 250GB or larger for $60 or so. The price of one or two games, can install a HDD that you should not have to ever worry about. I installed a 250GB drive in mine just shortly after I bought it for this exact reason, and mine is the original 80Gb version.

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      • admin
        Administrator
        • Nov 2001
        • 8954

        #4
        I've moved this thread to the "PS3/Xbox 360/Wii" forum (yes, we have one )
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        • dazuk1972
          Digital Video Specialist
          Digital Video Specialist
          • Jul 2005
          • 853

          #5
          Many thanks everyone for the info.

          Sorry I posted this in the wrong place.

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