Thanks bro because of you I was able to upgrade my slim ps3 to 1tb and have enough space to download the games I ever wanted.🎉

Thank you so much! This was so easy to do, I did this to upgrade to an SSD and it worked just as you described!

Been using 3 x 1.25T HDD in my ps3s for the past 7 years. Only had to do a reinstallation once during that time. PS3s are BOSS. Protect this console at all costs

I just got PS3 Slim yesterday from my friend free as he didn't have any use of it. This will be excellent guide if I ever had to replace it's hard drive. Idk why but when I saw the warning "Do not cover breather hole" in 2:27, my brain misread it as "Do not breathe in cover hole" first. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

thank you bro! minitool partition was not working for a suprise reason! definitly this one works like magic

Thank you Robles for this video

Thank you for this guide! 🙂

Great video mate. Got me out of trouble

For any of you having trouble when you put your ssd in and it doesnt work. I actually put the firmware 4.90 onto my usb backup. Of course you have to put it in your computer. Click on the usb drive. Click PS3 then you should see a folder title EXPORT that has all your backed up games, etc. next to that folder create a new folder titled UPDATE. Then place the 4.90 firmware into that folder and then you should be good to go. I did this like 20 times before trying that so I hope this saves someone some time.

Great ty for information Rob Jr

Nice job robles

great job thanks for this!!

I use to do this with a 1TB Solid State Drive not only on my PS3, but also my PS4. Who knows when a 2TB SSD might come in handy for a PS4?

great video my dude

@md_ez

Жыл бұрын

Slim hdd Laptop hdd or old computer hdd??

Thanks for vid. Upgraded from platter 160gb to ssd 500gb. At first didn't work cuz forgot to rename the firmware file in usb stick. Lol

So did you backup onto the new hdd from usb stick? I’m trying to understand nobody’s video shows the full process you went from ofw to cfw in two separate frames and didn’t explain what you’d done

Why are you formatting the drive before? You’re the only person on KZread who does this and I want to know if there’s a reason.

The Samsung EVO SSD'S are pretty good.💯😊

Did you restore your backup before or after reinstalling custom firmware? Or doesn't it matter?

Im planning to upgrade to 1tb..should i update the system first before replacing it or connect the 1tb then update the system?

im getting a curruption message on the ps3 after pressing select and start together.

Does the quick format button need to be turned off for both the hard drive and flash drive?

Hello! Rally appreciate your PS vita and ps3 video. Juste want to upgrade my ps3 HDD. i'm actually on cfw rogero 4.40 and want to use 4.90 cfw After this upgrade. Can i just install my New cfw when i reinstall my firmware or may i only use ofw to do so??

Making sure it will work with the cecha01

Never really changed my hdd because I always bought discs however it does seem like a good idea especially if you want to use PKGi 👍

@anishps3

Жыл бұрын

And jailbreaking is great option you can fit more games i am currently using 1tb hdd

@RockNRollDad88

Жыл бұрын

What is PKGi?

@LennyQUMFIF

Жыл бұрын

@@RockNRollDad88 PKGj

@ll3yWanTeD

Жыл бұрын

I am using 160HDD about to upgrade to a Kingston 480GB SSD

@brunovieira4630

6 ай бұрын

Discs install data on the hard drive too, some more than others, but they do. Some install around 12 GB of data in the hdd.

Why not the custom firmware after formatting to fat32?

Captain here Only HDDs being used externally (via USB) need to be formatted in FAT32. You do not need to pre-format a HDD you plan to install internally to the PS3. The console will format it during the installation.

i wonder if i can put the firmware in the same external hdd im using for the backups.

after i do that format and install update i remain with black screen . what happen? i have ssd in format fat32

What about cloning the disc?

Hey Robles, do they sell this in stores or do i have to order online like from amazon, i have 149GB on my ps3. I tried looking on amazon for this exact one?

@bogartwilley

8 ай бұрын

You need a 2.5 inch drive, preferably an SSD. 1Terabyte. SATA. They are fairly standard.

What happens if I put a hard drive from a older PS3 into my PS3 what I'm replacing the hard drive on

How do you get your PSN profile back, if you do not want to create a new one?

Done all steps put the hdd in and it seems like when i turn on the ps it just starts up as normal and when i check what storage its using it using the flash memory that’s come with it (12 gb nand) don’t know what I’ve done wrong?

Why didn't you use the debug utility though?

Does anyone know why when I download the file update. It opens via google chrome? Will that affect the ps3 if the file is theoretically getting opened with chrome.

What if the system is new and no games are on it do u need this frimware

Any tips on what to do if the Backup didn't work? It says it can't be found on the usb drive. would be nice not having to install everything all over, don't even have the Package manager now :/ E: tried putting back the old hdd to backup again but the box dont show anything on screen after powering on with old hdd inside.

Hello, i just want to know if it is ok to buy used hhd from facebook marketplace. Is there a lot that can go wrong?

I don't get it, is the FAT32 formatting mandatory? I've watched/read a lot of other tutorials, they just swap the old HDD with the new HDD and it works

@josephhall7317

10 ай бұрын

I don't know if it's this ps3 slim I have if it's the GPU, but I first had a 1tb Western digital blue SSD in it, now a 500gb Samsung Evo SSD and it slows down horribly, a technician I talked to said it could be the GPU or CPU going bad but I'm wondering if it's because it's not formatted, I just downloaded the 4.90 firmware on a USB drive and installed it that way, the ps3 says it's formatting the hard drive to operate with the system itself

@DJGamingBonanza

5 ай бұрын

The ps3 formats to fat32 itself when you add a new drive ssd or hdd. The only reason youd need a pc is to install the system firmware to a thumbdrive to add to the drive after its formatted otherwise you got a paperweight cause the ps3 doesnt have its operating system anymore

@DJGamingBonanza

5 ай бұрын

Also people saying ps3 ssd go bad quick is no longer true atleast for modern drives. When the ps3 came out ssds were expensive and not worth it for a console but now a 1tb can be like 50 bucks and most ssds have garbage collection now which keeps an ssd healthy when it doesnt have trim running which the ps3 cant use.

@SyamDaRos-EndoManno

5 ай бұрын

@@DJGamingBonanza I've installed an SSD and it works fine. Install times are a bit quicker now. There is one thing, I've heard SSDs lose speed after 70% capacity, is that true?

@DJGamingBonanza

5 ай бұрын

@@SyamDaRos-EndoManno from what I've read ssds that dont have garbage collection drastically lose speed after some months but most ssds now do. When ps3 came out ssds were expensive. So cheap ones didn't have garbage collection. But even expensive ones from ps3 time are like 50 bucks now

cant you just clone the old hdd to ssd?

is 1tb the max?

After formatting the HDD 1tb do you have to install the update on your PS3 if you're already if u already have evilnat 4.89 or can I just put in the newly formatted HDD into the PS3 and everything runs

@onaroad2riches736

9 сағат бұрын

you have to install latest evilnat version instead of sony update like he did

Great tutorial, however... Is the whole formatting to fat32 thing a useless exercise on the disk? The PS3 initializes it to its own wacky filesystem, which is probably Linux of some sort, and definitely not FAT32 due to the 4gb limitation it imposes on files.

@RoblesJunior

Жыл бұрын

The process is used just to clear your HDD, I found some of these new and especially refurbished HDD, they are not formatted correctly or have some weird files due to a program they may have used to essentially clean the disk. I typically add this step in all my upgrades just in case. Not too long ago I received a 4TB HDD Refurb from eBay, trying to upgrade my bosses PC and it had all this crap on it. Not sure why these resellers allow this to happen

@hypersonicfalcon6802

Жыл бұрын

@@RoblesJunior That's fair. Followed your guide to the letter and it worked perfectly though!

Kinda sucks that it's only limited to 1TB while you can use up to 2TBs externally. I got a Samsung 870 EVO SSD for my slim model PS3 which I jailbroke and I'm almost out of space and I have a lot of PS3 games that I backed up and I still have more to back up. Guess I'll have to get an external drive.

@rutgerb

4 ай бұрын

Isn't it because of the thickness of the drive? I just tried installing a 1.5tb drive but it won't fit in the bay. I now ordered some sata extension cable, to have to drive outside the ps3

How do I get all my movies and games to the new ps3 hard drive

@agent_mc

3 ай бұрын

Backup to usb and restore using system settings

Doesn't the PS3 format it to FAT32 for you? How come you pre-formatted the drive and reinstalled OFW? I heard it was possible to do this with your CFW on the USB. Is it better to go back to OFW first?

@Balmung5150

2 жыл бұрын

I think rebug has a debug hard drive transfer utility. All you need is to connect the new drive via usb

@nyaa104

Жыл бұрын

@@Balmung5150 perhaps he cloned the hard drive

@josephhall7317

10 ай бұрын

I need to know this too because I used a 1tb WD SSD first, and now a 500gb Samsung Evo SSD, installed the latest update 4.90 from a USB stick I downloaded right from Sony, but with both SSD's the system starts running horribly slow after about 40 minutes, it says formatting storage device when you start so I don't know if it's something I did or didn't do or something in the system itself going bad but it doesn't even get hot

When first booting with the new SSD installed, is there any reason a HFW won't work?

@RoblesJunior

Жыл бұрын

Never tried an SSD to be honest but I am looking to get one for testing purposes.

@GoodGuyGaurav

Жыл бұрын

@@RoblesJunior what if it was an HDD ? To elaborate - I'm trying to upgrade storage and jailbreak. When you first insert a fresh drive into a ps3 you're supposed to install the firmware right? At this stage, can I directly install the Hybrid Firmware (HFW) and not OFW ?

ofw links??

Question, if i have a sata to usb cable, can't i just format the new hdd to fat32 on my computer, then tranfer all data from the old hdd to the new one, and just put it in?? Will that work?

@RoblesJunior

Жыл бұрын

Yes in theory it should work. You can plug it into your ps3 as an external device and make the transfer that way!

@RockNRollDad88

Жыл бұрын

@@RoblesJunior never thought of using the ps3 to transfer, i am all new to this stuff and does as much as possible on my laptop 😂 thank you so much, you have been a major help the last couple of months!!!

@RockNRollDad88

Жыл бұрын

@@RoblesJunior if i transfer all files to the new hdd before installing it, will my cfw then be on there and work without being updated or reinstalled?

@davidjames3259

Жыл бұрын

​@@RockNRollDad88 did it work for u with this method ?

@RockNRollDad88

Жыл бұрын

@@davidjames3259 never tried it

my ps3 slim 4.89 on pendrive update dont work ... help bro... fat 32 pendrive and dont work

@fugedaboudit

Жыл бұрын

Try one that doesn't go over 16gb.

@ll3yWanTeD

Жыл бұрын

same here even backups gives some errors

Is it possible to use CFW instead of OFW initial install of new HDD?

@dreki-brawlstars

Жыл бұрын

If you previously flashed your nand/nor and you previously i think its possible😊

Could you not just clone the old disk to the new disk and then extend the partition? That way you don't have to backup, load the firmware again and then still restore

@fugedaboudit

Жыл бұрын

I have same doubt, how to extend the partition space after?

@Sean_Cockrell

Жыл бұрын

@@fugedaboudit I have not tried it but perhaps a partition manager like parted after the clone completes?

@fugedaboudit

Жыл бұрын

@@Sean_Cockrell I was thinking of Gparted from Linux.

@aroh

Жыл бұрын

I tried this, cloned my 500gb HDD to a 1TB SSD, it turned my 1TB into a 500GB SSD...kinda disappointing now I just formatted it to start over and whenever I turn the ps3 on it turns automatically off...what do?

@DatGuyWithDaGlasses

Жыл бұрын

@@aroh Pretty sure you need add the OS for anything to happen, Sony provides downloads for the latest version

What is the largest ssd capacity you can install?

@RoblesJunior

6 ай бұрын

Currently like 1.5 TB but there is a way to pass that. It has to do with partitioning the drive a certain way to by pass it on the pS3

although i've given up. put in new hdd, formatted fat32, and when it tries to load firmware from USB it says data corrupted....idk...downloaded it from playstation, ....sigh...

@lolloramone9638

Жыл бұрын

Just remove your pad from USB right after pushing the start + select.

@ll3yWanTeD

Жыл бұрын

@@lolloramone9638 GAMEPAD???

@lashawnhampton32

10 ай бұрын

Do u really need to firmware if ur hacking.But just want more space

i dont have a ps3 but why not lets wathc this

Connecting the new hard drive to PC and formatting is unneeded extra work and can skip that process all together.. install the new hard drive in ur PS3 with a USB device plugged in with correct firmware and the firmware does all the work for u. .both formatting and installing

@josephhall7317

10 ай бұрын

That's what I did with 2 SSD's now, the Samsung Evo SSD I just bought yesterday and did this, but it's slowing down terribly after about 35-40 minutes of use, is that from not formatting or something with the system possibly? Because the ps3 formats the storage device on it's own

@doi2017

7 ай бұрын

@@josephhall7317it sounds more like a temperature issue. Formatting your drive in pc or ps3 will have the same effect

@josephhall7317

7 ай бұрын

@@doi2017 another Samsung SSD ended up fully fixing whatever issue I was having, was frustrated because I bought one from Japan the scarlet red one so I paid like $220 with box

Where can I buy this 1tb hdd?

@RoblesJunior

Жыл бұрын

Check my description!

Can I use my internal ps5 hard drive for my internal ps3 drive

@BaloneyBoy7

Жыл бұрын

as long as the specs line up with the ps3 hdd, yes. they have to have the same rpm and be the same size, but If they are you can.

@angelolima4811

Жыл бұрын

@@BaloneyBoy7 just same rpm doesn't matter if its ssd or bigger

Can u use a seagate

@Hardeepkauramloh

8 ай бұрын

He used SEAGATE

Is it possible to back up the PS3 data to an external HDD or SSD

@Karlenk0

2 ай бұрын

yes

@speedplayz214

2 ай бұрын

@@Karlenk0 Alright thanks

What if I am already running custom firmware? Must it be OEM firmware?

@onaroad2riches736

9 сағат бұрын

no. you install whichever cfw you want

Will sshd work with ps3?

@Karlenk0

2 ай бұрын

yes

Can skip to 8 min

I Just Upgrade my Ps3 Hard Drive 128gb to 1tb but somehow 828 GB / 931 GB I only have 100plus space on my HDD The HDD Is Second Hand

@dmer-zy3rb

Жыл бұрын

you can free up 8% of hdd space with either a special app you can download for the ps3 or if you are using the newest evilnat there is already an option integrated in the special options.

@miguelricoramos3428

Жыл бұрын

@@dmer-zy3rb is that jailbreak because I'm not going to jailbreak my ps3

@dmer-zy3rb

Жыл бұрын

@@miguelricoramos3428 yeah it is but i can really recommend it. You can even easily overclock your ps3 if you want, but i didnt do it i just stuck 1 tb ssd in it.

Where gone 103gb after install!? 1024gb -> 828gb !?

@onaroad2riches736

9 сағат бұрын

ps3s store 8% of storage as reserve but its not neccessary. you can get the 8% back with homebrew

Why is this mid part like rocket science 😭😭

It would have been much quicker and easier to buy a cheap SSD, take out the old HDD and clone to SSD direct.much quicker. Update. I've tried that and you can not clone the HDD with PS3 content.or at least I have not found a way.

@wilhood6475

Жыл бұрын

I'm having a nightmare installing my new drive, ps3 can never see the update file 4.89.Is it possible to clone the hhd I have to a larger ssd?.If so, is there any guides anywhere.Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

@catod0_

Жыл бұрын

nah

@josephhall7317

10 ай бұрын

I didn't do any type of formatting, I let the system do it itself and it does in this video near the end but I've used 2 SSD's now, first a 1tb Western digital blue and now a 500gb Samsung Evo that I bought just for this but it starts slowly down terribly after around 35-40 minutes, but it formatted itself in the system so is that just something in the system itself going bad?

Can I put a 4tb on a PS3? 🤔

@RayLuvsCats64

Жыл бұрын

nope, the highest a ps3 can support is 1TB

@jenovaizquierdo

Жыл бұрын

@@RayLuvsCats64 thank you, I try 2tb 😞😔 and it doesn’t work thank god I did not buy the 4tb. I have now a 1 SSD

@RayLuvsCats64

Жыл бұрын

@@jenovaizquierdo no problem, Next time please do your research. I'm glad I could help tho!

@jenovaizquierdo

Жыл бұрын

@@RayLuvsCats64 thank you, I did research there was some Google search saying they try 1.5tb but they never mention how they did it, most likely it was not true. Thank man.

Don’t even look at it lol

I’m not doing all that

@SyamDaRos-EndoManno

Жыл бұрын

Nobody forces you

Thank you Robles! It worked I was stuck on this for a week or so. I recommend not downloading from sony idk why but I kept getting this code 8002f225

Yo all of you guys make this way to harder then it needs to be. You could really just right click your drive in windows quick format it to fat32. You don't need an hdd program unless your doing something special.

@johnguecia7490

Ай бұрын

No you cannot. Windows does not offer FAT32 format to drives over 32GB in size.

@Mitchellc0123

Ай бұрын

@@johnguecia7490lol what? Seeing I just formatted my 4tb hdd to fat32 and use it for my Xbox one I beg to differ.

@johnguecia7490

Ай бұрын

@Mitchellc0123 You can do so, but not through Windows. You have to use other software like GUIFormat in order to do that and make it a Large FAT32 Drive. Not saying it isn't possible, just not possible through Windows

@AG2-fukumean

Күн бұрын

Only HDDs being used externally (via USB) need to be formatted in FAT32. You do not need to pre-format a HDD you plan to install internally to the PS3. The console will format it during the installation.

@onaroad2riches736

9 сағат бұрын

@@AG2-fukumean its safer to format it on pc first, but not completely neccessary

Is the operating system on the hdd ?

@dmer-zy3rb

Жыл бұрын

yes.