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How do I transfer memory from one hard drive to another?

My 80gig ps3 is almost out of memory and i want to get a new hardrive with a lot more memory without losing all of my memory on my old hardrive. is there a way i can transer memory from one hardrive to another? or is there a place i can take it where they do it for me? Also if you know what kind of hardrive i need for a ps3 that would be helpful too.

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Answer #1

You cannot transfer memory from one hard drive to another. The hard drives storage capacity is limited by physical magnetic platters. You can transfer the DATA thats on your PS3 hard drive.

The PS3 has a backup option. You should be able to backup you profile(s) to a usb drive, or several usb drives then recover them once you have installed the new hard drive. I recommend reading this guide (from start to finish) before starting then following it while replacing the hard drive. (There are lots of guides out there, most pretty good - this one just seems to be very comprehensive, going over backing up, choosing a new drive, and restoring your data) http://funadvice.com/r/bk6b70pc339

The PS3 will take just about any 2.5” SATA Laptop hard drive, preferable 5400RPM (thats the the stock one is).

Answer #2

He obviously wants to transfer the information on his current PS3 drive to a new larger one. His terminology while awkward isn’t entirely wrong. You are probably too young to have heard it this way but it used to be common to refer to the CPU’s main memory as “primary memory” disks and drums as “secondary memory” and automated tape storage as “tertiary memory.” Reports are that high performance drives do little good in PS3s. Even users who installed solid state drives report that games are still painfully slow to load. The disk does not appear to be the bottleneck.

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