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ps3 hdd upgrades

by almostheaven83 Apr 13, 2007 10:21AM PDT

i was on new egg and there was a 160gb hdd some one had posted that there was only 130gb avalible now i no that the for matted space is less ect. but that seems outrageous dose any one no about this the person did not say what firm ware version he had.

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Um... not sure exactly what your question was but

by bkchurch Apr 13, 2007 10:34AM PDT

But it shouldn't take 30Gb to format a 160 HDD, if it's being used with a PS3 then the used space may have been a combination of formatting the HDD and installing the PS3 OS.

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Could be a lot of things

by jackson dougless Apr 13, 2007 11:09AM PDT

If Sony does anything like Microsoft did with the Xbox and Xbox360, there will be a number of partitions for different things. On the Xbox, there was a 4GB partition for game saves and other misc stuff like that, there was about a 350MB partition for the dashboard and core system stuff, then there was also a few partitions that were used for caching data off of the game disc to speed up access times.

I wouldn't be surprised if Sony did something similar with the PS3. It makes sense, if you're going to stick a HDD into a game console, to cache data off of game discs onto the much faster HDD. Saves wear and tear on the very expensive blu-ray drives, speeds up game loading times, what's not to love?

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