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Add a bigger hard drive to your PS3
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Posted by: Warez Monster

I always wondered why Microsoft and Sony added hard drives with such low capacities to their gaming systems. HD Movies, game trailers for instance, use so much space that the hard drive will sooner or later be filled to the rim with the only solution to delete files to free up space. Someone on myspace posted a solution on how to add at least one 3,5БН SATA drive to your Playstation 3. The 3,5БН will not fit into the PS3 obviously because it is using a 2,5БН internally.

You will need the following hardware:

1 medium Phillips screw driver.
1 3.5БН SATA HDD
1 3.5БН SATA HDD enclosure.
1 Male SATA 7-Pin DATA to Female SATA 7-Pin Cable. (IБfm using a 20БН)
You may need a set of needle nose pliers or a pair of snips.

The author has linked to websites that aid you in the process. He recommend an external SATA case to add the 3,5БН SATA drive to it. The case needs an external SATA connection as well as its own power supply to work flawlessly.

I do not own a PS3 yet which means I could not try this little hack on my own machine. It seems to me that you have to use the internal SATA connector to connect the external SATA drive. Here is what he is saying about this, rather vague unfortunately:

If you want cut, a hole in your PS3Бfs HDD cover and run the cable through go ahead. However, I may at a later time make a male to male SATA cable. I will lilkely use the extension cable I already have and a cable from a SATA cable bracket like in the following pics. I will cut a hole of the appropriate size in the HDD cover and attach the bracket end to the cover. Figure this part out yourself. For now IБfll keep the PS3 in a vertical position with the cable hidden running through a hole below to the drive enclosure.

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