do i really need a flash drive to change the hard drive for the ps3 if i have all the games saved on the ps plus?
1890888
previous answer was correct if you have it in the ps plus then you just have to redownload. Easiest way though is to back up your existing ps3 drive to an external drive then install your new one then restore from the external drive
1890889
No, you just have to go through the lengthy process of re-downloading everything onto the new hard drive
1046326
You need an internal HDD yes. A flash drive will not work. You need around 6 gb I believe. I would purchase an Xbox with the 200+ GB HDD or grab an external one to plug into yours. Just about any model with enough space should suffice.
2064921
No, its not already formatted. But its extremely simple to format. You just need a flash drive that is formatted to FAT32 which you can do under the properties for the flash drive. Then you create 2 separate folders on the flash drive and download the update from PlayStation website. There are tons of YouTube videos that can show you step by step how to do it.
819549
You cannot save your actual Playstation games to the Digistor - only the saved games data. Anything you save to the PS "cloud," such as saved games, can be saved to the Digistor instead. Hope this answers your question.
264467
No. You will need a 2.5 inch drive, this one is 3.5. There are instructions online for how to replace the HDD in the PS4.
7373
I installed this drive in a PS3, that transferred the PS3 system, you would need to transfer the one system you need.
2220989
Not sure it is formatted for PS3 as a Fat 32 flashdrive. I would just use a 2TB samsung internal drive for a little more $ personally
381663
Yes it does. This was the sole purpose for me purchasing the drive and it works great. As long as you follow the instructions on reinstalling the PS3 firmware onto the drive, you should have no issues. You'll notice a substantial speed increase for system boot and installing/running games. The capacity helps as well.
240456
The maximum drive you can put in any playstation is 1tb. For external drives, it will read up to 2tb. Of course with external, you can partition a 4tb drive into 2x2tb; which will also work. But to answer your question, The drive is 931gb, no matter what kind of format is used on it. After putting a 1tb in my ps3 slim, formatting, and restoring about 25gb of save data, I had a little over 800gb free. So I would approximate about 825gb with a fresh start.
687520
yes works well...no issues seen. follow the directions from sony hdd upgrade and get the larger file...think it was 500mb or so....for new drive install.....do hate how you cant back anything up on ps4 except game saves...so you have to redownload everything....i had a god 60+ gb
556252
Yes because if you installed them and backup the entire system its automatically backup with the rest of the games data file!
1200823
No it should be fine backing up cloud saves, and new saves as well as copy over the saves from your 4gig internal flash drive.. Downside, unless you have your saved games in the cloud or are not corrupt, they are gone forever unfortunately.
251452
Unfortunately you cannot. This is strictly a backup device. You can't even veiw whats on the drive from your PS3 it only shows each save as a file number usually including the date the save is made in with the sequence of numbers. You can delete older saves and apply previous saves through your PS3 backup utility that's about it. MAD
1302902
Yes, I just purchased it for my son and it works. What I didn't know is that if you don't have the casing you need it also as that is what the hard drive sits in. Then you insert the whole thing in the ps3.
173187
What that means is that you need to update your PS3 system software to the latest version. It has nothing to do with your hard drive. Hope I was able to help.
885285
ps3 file system is fat32, i don't know what the ps4 is but when you put it in and follow the install instructions it'll format in the system
953872
It depends what you mean by backup. with the ps3 the external hard drive doesn't work like a second hard drive for it. When you put files on it you can't access these files from the game itself. You have to copy the save files over to it and copy them back before you play it. If you mean to backup the system incase some thing happens to the game yes it will work for that.