It has been reported that some PS3 will only need to format the HDD and thats it, you don't have to re install the OS. It happened to me. The OS is installed elsewhere not sure but it just works. It worked for me.
@@EzeAsuoha I actually have phat and slim versions. Like I mentioned it's not as easy for OG XBOX well at least for the 1.6 it's super easy. No matter the PS3 version it's still easy
First off - love all these videos. They're so great and they make me super excited to play with my old tech. That said there was an extra step I needed in this process. I needed to have a usb drive with the 4.88 OS file on it before the new HDD would format. This vid is a year old so maybe things have changed a bit. Happy hunting and thanks again!!
I seen another video where the guy also showed that I needed a usb with ps os. He showed that I would have to install it otherwise it wouldn’t work. I know this is a old video but did you ever find out if this is true or not?
I finally found the my answer i been looking for. It's is possible to copy my old data to new SDD drive, without buying another PS3. What a life saver. TIme to up grade my drive 1TB here i come
I should have known you had a video for this - I follow your Nintendo updates, but didn't consider PlayStation. I watched a few before yours and they completely glossed over the backup step. You're thorough as always. Thank you so much!
Watched a video of yours about PSP CFW about a month ago and I'm just now upgrading my PS3 storage. Same style of video, professional and concise, worked like a charm! Thanks again Blaine :)
Thanks for the video, was way easier than i thought to do this, i had an extra 250 gb hdd so put it in my PS3. Just to let people know, if you have rebug installed, you DO NOT have to reinstall it to change out your HDD.
@@mello_man i honestly don't know . But, i just got everything ready for an install and changed the hdd. But didnt need to do anything. I can only say try it, but be ready to reinstall everything. If you don't have to reinstall its a very simple process. Think i had mine done in like 30 min and was surprised it was so simple..because it seems nothing can be simple anymore. Best of luck.
@@michaelthedford yes it works, you just gotta redo your cfw install since the ps3 setup installs the ofw. you can transfer your files from your old drive afterwards
Great tutorial. Can't understand why it only had a few thousand views. I'm going to troll Craigslist and marketplace for some old PS3s to mod. Thanks man, and keep up the awesome videos
Hi Blair, got a question about HDD compatibility. My understanding is that modern HDD's have a 4K advanced format where the physical drive sectors are 4,096 bytes... but that the PS3 OS was actually designed to run on old-school HDD's that have the previous 512 byte sectors. I've read on some forums that folks have experienced stuttering issues when running certain games from their newly installed (modern) HDD's - because no one sells those old 512 sector HDD's anymore! Granted.... even though the HDD's are 4K AF... most will be running on 512e (emulated) so they can work with existing OS's and applications that I/O data in 512 sized packets. Do you know anything / have experienced these stuttering issues? I'm guessing the stuttering come either from the physical and logical sectors not being aligned (4K vs 512), or from the 512e process which is essentially an extra step between the OS and the HDD.... I'm really looking forward to upgrading my PS3 HDD, still using the 80GB on my fat PS3!
@@naughtydog9843 no, and to be honest, work got in the way and I never got around to it. I researched high and low and did not find an answer. I suppose you could try it, but make sure you have a way to revert back to the original HDD if things go wrong....
I love your tutorials but you missed something major. I followed step by step but after installing the new SSD the system didn't recognize the operating system. Figured out and added 4.90 to the flash drive. Created a folder named UPDATE and added to the backup flash drive. And it worked! My PS3 is back in business with a 1 TB SSD.
Did you go OFW 4.90, or reinstall Rebug/EvilNat or something? I'm having trouble with mine - doing the flash, but it gets stuck on Preparing To Update - 98%, not sure where I'm going wrong :/
I've seen a few tutorial that suggest downloading the PS3 firmware onto a USB stick (in folder PS3\UPDATE). You haven't done this step. Is it not needed?
i once took the hard drive out and put it back in just to clean it, i had to format the whole drive and install new firmware and i lost all my saves and all my games
@@badger4512 that's strange, i take the hdd out everytime i clean my console, never lost any data, Never had to format, never had to install firmware.
I figured out how to do it I just had to update the ps3 manually and move my ps3 in a way it would work and also had to jam my usb into the slot in order for it to read the update,it took forever but I got it to work
1.5 TB max is what the PS3 can take. PSN digital download cards needed to purchase additional content. Be sure to defrag & clear the dust bunnies frequently (TH-cam how to). My slim is still going strong after 13 years. Original controllers not so much.
Pick up a fat PS3 40gb at bookmans for $80 last weekend and wanted to upgrade the harddrive to a 1tb so when doing this my experience was a little different switch the harddrive was easy as pie but when turning on the ps3 i gave me a message about updating the software even though is was already updated to 4.86 already so i just downloaded the software online put it on the fat32 USB and plugged it in the USB and press select and start as it says to search for the update and worked like a charm i don't know if anybody had to go through the same route as me, Thanks for the video your doing great 😎👍
Please help i just got a 1tb hd for my ps3 and it keeps on saying to install the update,i already installed the update on my other hd but now its making me do it on this one,do i have to format it to fat 32 or something to get it to work?
When you do this does it also back up dlc? For example MGS4 had dlc that they removed from game that's no longer available from Konami unless you backdoor it.
Does this method work with current firmware too or is the process different? Can you do an updated tutorial on this Blaine if so?? Also, does it restore CFW???
Considering backing up and restoring my data on a cheap 500gb team group SSD I got from newegg recently for less than $30. Only pain will be backing up gigabytes of game data and also media files which will probably take ages lol.
Where does the manual update file from PlayStation come in during this process or is that a much older upgrade method? But awesome video and very informative. 👍
Glad that worked for you when I did this all my games were thare but i couldn't losd my saved files they were thare but was saying it was a diffrent pa 3 so I lost all my saved data
What happens if i move one HDD from one PS3 to a different PS3 ? Also what would happen if i put a HDD in a PS3 that isnt jailbroken but it came from a jailbroken PS3?
I bought my ssd last week and replace it for my hhd on my ps3, than i tried to install cfw and something went wrong. Now i have a brick ps3 and a ssd with no use... by the way nice tutorial.
I attempted to install it but it didn’t work for me, when I turned my ps3 on I received message saying “the system software cannot be run correctly press the ps button to try to restart the system if the system cannot be restarted the system partition of the storage must be reformatted” I wasn’t really sure what to do. And also I have cfw on the old hard drive, how do I implement that hardware to my new 1tb ssd? Is someone can give some assistance with this Inwould greatly appreciate it.
You need the updated pup file for the cfw. Create a folder labeled PS3. Click on that and create another folder labeled UPDATE. Then copy the pup file into that folder. Put the USB into the PS3 and follow the steps it asks for by pressing start and select.
I replace the hard drive with 1tb it been restoring forever about 40 hrs how long should this take or is something wrong it’s been stuck at 98% for two whole days
Hi Blaine, I'm currently backing up my data and I'm almost ready to replace the HDD with an SSD. Do I need to install the firmware after? I'm using PS3 PRO 4k custom firmware. Thanks Champ 🥊🥊
Great video! I have a USB to SATA cable that I’ve used for backups and stuff in the past, can I just backup all my games and data onto the new hard drive and cut out the USB stick?
You can straight out clone a PS3 hard drive using debug options on 4.84.2 REX REBUG CFW. As long as you have QA flags enabled you can downgrade to that. Then scroll down settings till you get to Debug. Go into Debug and scroll down till you find HDD exchange utility. Hook up your hard drive to the PS3 using a SATA to USB adapter. Follow the instructions to begin the process. After it's complete, install the new hard drive. When you power it on again, it'll look for an update. Take the CFW you want to use and put it on a USB drive. Update your PS3 from the USB drive and you should be finished.
@@claudeschaller Just found a better solution. On your CFW (you're using EvilNat 4.88 firmware right) go and highlight Network Settings. Hold D-PAD Down, L1, L2, L3, R1, and R2 at the same time. This enables the Debug menu with the HDD Disk exchange utility.
Incredibly convoluted, how I ended up having to do it, but I force-downloaded the playstation update to my phone (it wouldn't active just by clicking the link, so I had to hold it down until a menu popped up, told it to download & when a messae box popped up, click download anyway), transferred it through my laptop to a USB stick with the PS3 & UPDATE folders & then updated my PS3. I'd been led to believe that I could just hook the hard drive to the PS3 with a SATA to USB adapter & do a straight copy transfer. Found out the problem after getting some weird results when plugging it into my computer & looking it up- USB can't supply enough power to an internal hard drive to get it fully running, so it's data can't be accessed the way it can off of a basic flash drive. I guess the only way to do it is doing what the PS3 itself recommended- connecting two PS3's together via ethernet.
Hello, Blaine! I am new to modding a PS3. I am modding my own PS3 Slim for personal use. Can you tell me if Firmware 4.89 will still work with this video? Asking as at the time of this video the most up to date firmware was 4.86. Also, is 1TB the biggest internal HHD that can be read by a PS3?
I think the official maximum drive size for PS3 is 1 tb. Unofficial sixe is 1,5 tb, but since it's unofficial you can guess that a lot of 1,5 tb drives won't work.
Hey Blaine if i dont have any of my physical games saved on my ps3, i only have digital games on it. Would i still have to get a usb drive to transfer my digital games or can i just install new hard drive, and just reinstall my digital games after install? once new hard drive is in do you have to install new system update to new hard drive?
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it's 2021 and i needed this since the PS3 store is closing in July. thank you sir!
Not anymore
Go get far cry 4 from psn
If you want to play it
Not anymore luckily
What? When exacly?
@@thejojofamilyssecrettechni3824 you just can’t use credit cards anymore. You have to load the money to your PlayStation wallet.
Thanks for the easy to follow video! Got my PS3 HDD upgraded from 60GB to 320GB!
Bro its important to use fat32 harddisk
@@veeradhunna7835 why?
@@broughton1835 Late asf because PS3 can only read files if it's Fat32
This is missing a MAJOR step. How you could skip over having to do a fresh os install is crazy
It has been reported that some PS3 will only need to format the HDD and thats it, you don't have to re install the OS. It happened to me. The OS is installed elsewhere not sure but it just works. It worked for me.
@@LlamaRoyal how u know which ps3s tho?
Yes specially with phat and the slim it needs a fresh instal.
@@LlamaRoyalwhat ps3 did u have
@@EzeAsuoha I actually have phat and slim versions. Like I mentioned it's not as easy for OG XBOX well at least for the 1.6 it's super easy. No matter the PS3 version it's still easy
First off - love all these videos. They're so great and they make me super excited to play with my old tech. That said there was an extra step I needed in this process. I needed to have a usb drive with the 4.88 OS file on it before the new HDD would format. This vid is a year old so maybe things have changed a bit. Happy hunting and thanks again!!
I seen another video where the guy also showed that I needed a usb with ps os. He showed that I would have to install it otherwise it wouldn’t work. I know this is a old video but did you ever find out if this is true or not?
He completely skipped multiple parts
I finally found the my answer i been looking for. It's is possible to copy my old data to new SDD drive, without buying another PS3. What a life saver. TIme to up grade my drive 1TB here i come
Now i can finaly install mgs 4 on my ps3
I'm so glad I had this video I went from 40gb to 500gb I had some hiccups but it works perfectly now
I like how slowly and simply you tell everything it’s realy just impossible to not understand.
I should have known you had a video for this - I follow your Nintendo updates, but didn't consider PlayStation. I watched a few before yours and they completely glossed over the backup step. You're thorough as always. Thank you so much!
Watched a video of yours about PSP CFW about a month ago and I'm just now upgrading my PS3 storage. Same style of video, professional and concise, worked like a charm! Thanks again Blaine :)
Exactly me rn lol
Thanks for the video, was way easier than i thought to do this, i had an extra 250 gb hdd so put it in my PS3. Just to let people know, if you have rebug installed, you DO NOT have to reinstall it to change out your HDD.
Does the same go for evilnat and hen ?
@@mello_man i honestly don't know . But, i just got everything ready for an install and changed the hdd. But didnt need to do anything. I can only say try it, but be ready to reinstall everything. If you don't have to reinstall its a very simple process. Think i had mine done in like 30 min and was surprised it was so simple..because it seems nothing can be simple anymore. Best of luck.
Depends on your model of ps3. Some you don't have to, some you do
@mello_man u find out?
@mello_man u find out?
Couple years ago I put a SSD in my PS4 Pro and decided to keep the hdd. It’s gonna come in handy!
Dude, your comment made me remember that I still had my old 500GB PS4 HDD lying around so thank you! I was about to buy a new one!
My 20GB went to 1TB, thank you for the instructions
Any chance, you could make a video on how to upgrade a hard drive on a PS3 that's already been modded?
Yes plz
Is this going to work on a modded ps3?
@@michaelthedford yes it works, you just gotta redo your cfw install since the ps3 setup installs the ofw. you can transfer your files from your old drive afterwards
Thanks. I might give this a try. My 80g storage was a nightmare.
Watching this because I'm planning to start up a collection of playstation. Thank you!
Great tutorial. Can't understand why it only had a few thousand views. I'm going to troll Craigslist and marketplace for some old PS3s to mod. Thanks man, and keep up the awesome videos
Ey I still got ps3 interssted?
@@joshuaortiz5141 how much?
Awesome guide this deserves more likes thanks man I’m doing it right now I got the same HDD u got in the video
I have a 1TB SSD in NY PS3 slim. 30 games and DLC 710GB left. PS4 has 1TB SSD and 8GB external. 95 games on that.
Hi Blair, got a question about HDD compatibility. My understanding is that modern HDD's have a 4K advanced format where the physical drive sectors are 4,096 bytes... but that the PS3 OS was actually designed to run on old-school HDD's that have the previous 512 byte sectors. I've read on some forums that folks have experienced stuttering issues when running certain games from their newly installed (modern) HDD's - because no one sells those old 512 sector HDD's anymore! Granted.... even though the HDD's are 4K AF... most will be running on 512e (emulated) so they can work with existing OS's and applications that I/O data in 512 sized packets. Do you know anything / have experienced these stuttering issues? I'm guessing the stuttering come either from the physical and logical sectors not being aligned (4K vs 512), or from the 512e process which is essentially an extra step between the OS and the HDD.... I'm really looking forward to upgrading my PS3 HDD, still using the 80GB on my fat PS3!
Uhhhh trick question?
Did you ever find out the answer to this?
@@naughtydog9843 no, and to be honest, work got in the way and I never got around to it. I researched high and low and did not find an answer. I suppose you could try it, but make sure you have a way to revert back to the original HDD if things go wrong....
@@ianl.4470 hm so does size matter, if i use something like a 512 or 256 Gb hard drive, do they all have that 4k bytes issue?
@@IIIISai I don't think so....
Please if you can make also one "How to upgrade your internal HDD of PS3 after jailbreak"
Thanks in advance
Man, I got the same problem. New HDD just arrived but I’ve already jailbreak’d my PS3 and filled it to the brim with games. Any help, pls?
@@rodrigoarguetaalba2526 Same here fellas, did you ever find out?
I love your tutorials but you missed something major. I followed step by step but after installing the new SSD the system didn't recognize the operating system. Figured out and added 4.90 to the flash drive. Created a folder named UPDATE and added to the backup flash drive. And it worked! My PS3 is back in business with a 1 TB SSD.
Did you go OFW 4.90, or reinstall Rebug/EvilNat or something? I'm having trouble with mine - doing the flash, but it gets stuck on Preparing To Update - 98%, not sure where I'm going wrong :/
I've seen a few tutorial that suggest downloading the PS3 firmware onto a USB stick (in folder PS3\UPDATE). You haven't done this step. Is it not needed?
i once took the hard drive out and put it back in just to clean it, i had to format the whole drive and install new firmware and i lost all my saves and all my games
I needed to do this step.
@@badger4512 that's strange, i take the hdd out everytime i clean my console, never lost any data, Never had to format, never had to install firmware.
Does the back up require you to download all your digital games from the PS store again?
No you don’t as long as they are backed up on a flash drive
I finally did it, and it worked perfect now to jailbreak it😈
I liked the way you did this tutorial..
Awesome video thankyou, and your blowing me out Madden 25 , 25? Its 24 now and this vid 3 years old😮
I figured out how to do it I just had to update the ps3 manually and move my ps3 in a way it would work and also had to jam my usb into the slot in order for it to read the update,it took forever but I got it to work
You just earned a new subscriber, great video! Thank you
Yo mama
I appreciate that it’s 2022 and I wanna play red dead redemption but thanks to this video I can finally download red dead redemption
Is a Hen Backup possible?
I'm glad it doesn't require any os installation unlike ps4, just got myself an 80gb model and I'm going to install a 500gb drive and then jailbreak it
Thankyou for this video, really enjoyed it, and it is so helpful in everyway possible, well done for that.
Your way doesn’t work with a brand new hard drive you have to go to the PlayStation website and download a file to format it
1.5 TB max is what the PS3 can take. PSN digital download cards needed to purchase additional content. Be sure to defrag & clear the dust bunnies frequently (TH-cam how to). My slim is still going strong after 13 years. Original controllers not so much.
Now I can complete my back log
Pick up a fat PS3 40gb at bookmans for $80 last weekend and wanted to upgrade the harddrive to a 1tb so when doing this my experience was a little different switch the harddrive was easy as pie but when turning on the ps3 i gave me a message about updating the software even though is was already updated to 4.86 already so i just downloaded the software online put it on the fat32 USB and plugged it in the USB and press select and start as it says to search for the update and worked like a charm i don't know if anybody had to go through the same route as me, Thanks for the video your doing great 😎👍
had the same issue and did the same with the USB and installed the update. Works fine
How much GB should the drive be that use to transfer over the update file?
I think i'm having the same problem...little help?
Oh it's so nice when something is designed to be serviceable.
thanks mate
You're welcome! Glad the guide was helpful. :)
easier than i thought thank u !
Please help i just got a 1tb hd for my ps3 and it keeps on saying to install the update,i already installed the update on my other hd but now its making me do it on this one,do i have to format it to fat 32 or something to get it to work?
I got it to work I just had to jam it in my ps3 and got it to work
can anyone help me i cannot get this to work it says no applicable update data was found connect storage media that contains update 4.87 or higher
did you find the solution? Same thing happened to me
ME TOO
Thanks for showing man! :)
You are awesome, ty!!
When you do this does it also back up dlc? For example MGS4 had dlc that they removed from game that's no longer available from Konami unless you backdoor it.
You make ps3 nodding so much easier
Does this method work with current firmware too or is the process different? Can you do an updated tutorial on this Blaine if so??
Also, does it restore CFW???
Any luck?
guess the update on the usb wasn't picking up on my ps3 oh well was a nice thought
Considering backing up and restoring my data on a cheap 500gb team group SSD I got from newegg recently for less than $30. Only pain will be backing up gigabytes of game data and also media files which will probably take ages lol.
what's the max size we can upgrade to?
1tb max
@@LmaoImSaucy technically 1.5 TB.
Thanks for the tips, sir.
The upgrade from 60gb to 500gb Is for sure going to be worth it
Now I have the red light of death
Will the back up work on saving my PS3 hen jailbreak with all my PS3 iso files I’ve installed or will it just save the original PS3 files ?
I need help, the backup utility is stuck on "Preparing... Please wait"
Mine is stuck on this too
@@vintagepennies6899 I had to bite the bullet and restart from scratch.
is 1TB still the max internal memory we can go into the PS3 or can we use a 2TB?
Where does the manual update file from PlayStation come in during this process or is that a much older upgrade method? But awesome video and very informative. 👍
Hi i have subscribed today👍
The 80GB model does not have a ps2 Chipset. It is software emulated. The 20gb and 60gb have PS2 hardware inside them
You're amazing! ✨
Great video! Is the process the same for replacing the HHD to SSD?
Glad that worked for you when I did this all my games were thare but i couldn't losd my saved files they were thare but was saying it was a diffrent pa 3 so I lost all my saved data
What happens if i move one HDD from one PS3 to a different PS3 ?
Also what would happen if i put a HDD in a PS3 that isnt jailbroken but it came from a jailbroken PS3?
If it's already formatted for PlayStation, it'll work fine , don't know about the jailbroken question
Just installed my 1tb western digital hdd. Now i have to jailbreak again 🤦🏾♂️ oh well let me get started 👌🏾
You forgot where you need to put the PlayStation update from their website onto a thumbstick drive then insert that onto the ps3.
What an amazing guy 😊
Thx now I'm going jailbreak it
Thanks man💪💯
When I did that I didn't get the ps3 screen. My screen was blank.
I bought my ssd last week and replace it for my hhd on my ps3, than i tried to install cfw and something went wrong. Now i have a brick ps3 and a ssd with no use... by the way nice tutorial.
@@blainelocklair it was a chech 2001A
Did you flash memory bin before installing cfw? Check out an eflasher
@@blainelocklair how much space does it have and if I buy the hard drive on link and I choose 2 TB can my ps3 install lots of games
@@ShadowMods221 1 tb is the max official size but there are some 1.5 drives that are said to work unofficially.
@@naughtydog9843 1tb is plenty and a safe bet
I attempted to install it but it didn’t work for me, when I turned my ps3 on I received message saying “the system software cannot be run correctly press the ps button to try to restart the system if the system cannot be restarted the system partition of the storage must be reformatted”
I wasn’t really sure what to do. And also I have cfw on the old hard drive, how do I implement that hardware to my new 1tb ssd? Is someone can give some assistance with this Inwould greatly appreciate it.
You need the updated pup file for the cfw. Create a folder labeled PS3. Click on that and create another folder labeled UPDATE. Then copy the pup file into that folder. Put the USB into the PS3 and follow the steps it asks for by pressing start and select.
I love Ton Legacy!! :)
Just speechless! Question, faster performance?? Loading times shortened?
Unless its sdd i dont think so. Ps4 does take advantage of sdd's
@@lucasjerez2137 your limited on BUS speeds. SSD performance is negligible.
I replace the hard drive with 1tb it been restoring forever about 40 hrs how long should this take or is something wrong it’s been stuck at 98% for two whole days
is this the same method for jailbroken systems? I want to keep it jailbroken with the custom firmware.
Hi Blaine, I'm currently backing up my data and I'm almost ready to replace the HDD with an SSD. Do I need to install the firmware after? I'm using PS3 PRO 4k custom firmware. Thanks Champ 🥊🥊
@@astraldrifter777 see my content Champ 👀🥊🥊
Im doing this right now
Great video! I have a USB to SATA cable that I’ve used for backups and stuff in the past, can I just backup all my games and data onto the new hard drive and cut out the USB stick?
I was just wounding the same thing. For some reason I can’t get the usb file right??
You can straight out clone a PS3 hard drive using debug options on 4.84.2 REX REBUG CFW. As long as you have QA flags enabled you can downgrade to that. Then scroll down settings till you get to Debug. Go into Debug and scroll down till you find HDD exchange utility. Hook up your hard drive to the PS3 using a SATA to USB adapter. Follow the instructions to begin the process. After it's complete, install the new hard drive. When you power it on again, it'll look for an update. Take the CFW you want to use and put it on a USB drive. Update your PS3 from the USB drive and you should be finished.
@@davidgill7412 Awesome, I’ll try that out. Thanks!
@@claudeschaller Just found a better solution. On your CFW (you're using EvilNat 4.88 firmware right) go and highlight Network Settings. Hold D-PAD Down, L1, L2, L3, R1, and R2 at the same time. This enables the Debug menu with the HDD Disk exchange utility.
@@davidgill7412 Mine was on CFM4.83 or so. Would the Debug clone work from a native 120GB HDD to a new 500GB HDD?
Incredibly convoluted, how I ended up having to do it, but I force-downloaded the playstation update to my phone (it wouldn't active just by clicking the link, so I had to hold it down until a menu popped up, told it to download & when a messae box popped up, click download anyway), transferred it through my laptop to a USB stick with the PS3 & UPDATE folders & then updated my PS3.
I'd been led to believe that I could just hook the hard drive to the PS3 with a SATA to USB adapter & do a straight copy transfer. Found out the problem after getting some weird results when plugging it into my computer & looking it up- USB can't supply enough power to an internal hard drive to get it fully running, so it's data can't be accessed the way it can off of a basic flash drive. I guess the only way to do it is doing what the PS3 itself recommended- connecting two PS3's together via ethernet.
keren videonya
moga bisa terus update gan
I’ve bought the wrong tray twice so I give up now trying to
Nice guide, but you forgot to mention that you need an update file to install the os in the new drive.
Nah dawg, that aint it
Thanks boss!
Nice 80gb model!
Can i just put in a new hard drive
Is this the same process if I have installed Ferrox?
I followed your advice, and all the screws got stripped. Is there a replacement caddy?
Wish I could send you mine for that upgrade
Does this work with seagate internal hdd’s, i wanna use a 1tb one that i have leftover
Hello, Blaine! I am new to modding a PS3. I am modding my own PS3 Slim for personal use. Can you tell me if Firmware 4.89 will still work with this video? Asking as at the time of this video the most up to date firmware was 4.86. Also, is 1TB the biggest internal HHD that can be read by a PS3?
what if my ps is jailbroken, what will happen?
No worries. Since your system is already jailbroken, you can just install the most recent custom firmware onto the new drive and you'll be good to go.
Can you add a 2tb HDD or more to the ps3? And if you replace the HDD do you have to re-jailbrake it?
I think the official maximum drive size for PS3 is 1 tb. Unofficial sixe is 1,5 tb, but since it's unofficial you can guess that a lot of 1,5 tb drives won't work.
No I tried it I have fatt 60gb ps3
I have a 1.5 tb installed in my ps3 and it works without any issues. I honestly wouldn't go any higher than that tho
I have a CECHLO2 Phat model PS3 which does not have the extra ports.
the 20 gig is the 1 with all original ps2 and ps1 chips inside
Now i can change my ps3 hard drive to a 1tb thank you sir
Question: what's the HD size limit?
1,5 TB
@@newbielol5119 what about 2tb
@@ShadowMods221 nope
What’s the name of the 1 TB Hard drive you used?
Hey Blaine if i dont have any of my physical games saved on my ps3, i only have digital games on it. Would i still have to get a usb drive to transfer my digital games or can i just install new hard drive, and just reinstall my digital games after install? once new hard drive is in do you have to install new system update to new hard drive?
Not any more the ps3 store is still hear