After many evenings spent trying to download a demo or save an MP3 to my Playstation3 and being prompted with the message that the flimsy 60GB drive is full, I'm upgrading the hard drive.
I still remember when I bought the system and 60GB sounded so vast. Surely, I'd be able to copy countless saved games/videos/photos to the PS3 and never run out of space. Then I got home and discovered just running the system used up 10 Gigs of that space.Now I've moved on from the early 8MB saved files of "Need for Speed: Carbon" to the whopping 5GB save files of new games like "MLB: The Show 09" and "Fallout 3".
So, now, I run the Playstation's backup utility with the hope that all the games, family photos, and Rock Band songs I've paid for will be backed up safely and I'll be able to replace my hard drive with minimal fuss or muss. The utility itself seems kind of sketchy as it offers no confirmation of exactly what its storing. I'm only greeted with a taskbar telling me it should be done in two hours.
I'm a little nervous about performing the actual hard drive removal. Ironically, I used to do network administration and computer repair for large international companies and never batted an eye during an upgrade. Now faced with the potential of having to earn all those trophies again in "Uncharted Drake" or (heaven forbid) trying to buy a new PS3, I'm having heart palpitations!
I still remember when I bought the system and 60GB sounded so vast. Surely, I'd be able to copy countless saved games/videos/photos to the PS3 and never run out of space. Then I got home and discovered just running the system used up 10 Gigs of that space.Now I've moved on from the early 8MB saved files of "Need for Speed: Carbon" to the whopping 5GB save files of new games like "MLB: The Show 09" and "Fallout 3".
So, now, I run the Playstation's backup utility with the hope that all the games, family photos, and Rock Band songs I've paid for will be backed up safely and I'll be able to replace my hard drive with minimal fuss or muss. The utility itself seems kind of sketchy as it offers no confirmation of exactly what its storing. I'm only greeted with a taskbar telling me it should be done in two hours.
I'm a little nervous about performing the actual hard drive removal. Ironically, I used to do network administration and computer repair for large international companies and never batted an eye during an upgrade. Now faced with the potential of having to earn all those trophies again in "Uncharted Drake" or (heaven forbid) trying to buy a new PS3, I'm having heart palpitations!