Hard Drive Xtender allows for any IDE or SATA HDD to be used in PS3

[zewone]

http://www.mrmodchips.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=451&osCsid=78b53ad7a946b9e19bda3f7ab526174b

I just saw this posted at Engadget.

Apparently, with this installed in your PS3, you can use any IDE or SATA HDD (2.5 or 3.5) to upgrade the harddrive.

This is great since 2.5 SATAs are very expensive.

[guyver2077]

would it be treated as an internal drive? im wondering what's the diff of just using an enclosure

[zewone]

Yes, it is treated as the internal HDD.

[guyver2077]

interesting... may have to keep an eye on this.. assuming something happens soon to warrant the big hd

[seanr1221]

Cool, thanks Zew.

[evanft]

Dude, isn't a 250 gig drive something like $75?

[dallow]

Everytime I've used a regular HDD, with an enclosure.
It's died. 3 fucking times.

I'll never use this.

(however my prefab external HDD works great)

[zewone]

Dude, isn't a 250 gig drive something like $75?
I picked up a 250GB 3.5 drive for $50 a couple of months ago.

A quick search on 2.5 250GB HDDs are in the $180 range.

[TimPV3]

A quick search on 2.5 250GB HDDs are in the $180 range.While you can get a 3.5 hard drive for twice the size for less than 2/3 of the price. 500GB at tigerdirect for only $109.99. I remember rushing to get a 300GB drive for that price 3 years ago.

[babycarlitos]

bringing this back, .. anyone in the community owns this? Im planning on getting one to connect my 500 gig sata and dump all my movies so i dont have to stream them anymore. Is been about 1 year since the last person ( TimPV3 ) posted. anyone owns this ? looking for some feedback.... yes I check around and all I found so far :

1- it might not work with some 40 gigs as the HD is in placed differently
2- some TBS ( terrabytes ) will lock up/not boot the ps3
3- the connection is sata not e-sata
4- found a pic of someone that made their own... but no instructions

[V4oLDbOY]

Dont use an exclosure, they seem to cause the hdds to fail. That happened to me once, but a very small drive, I think only 24gb. But now I bought another 3.5 hdd enclosure, and gutted the internal parts, so now I just 2 hard drives on my desk with a small chip, and cords of course. I've had it this way for about a year now, no problems. I also bought another 250gb drive and have the both hooked up tot he same cable, I just switch the power cord between them, one is fat formatted for the ps3. I just bought the cheapest enclosure I could find, and took out the chip, its only 1'x3' maybe.

[The Mana Knight]

I remember seeing a story where someone did this at the PS3 forums, using a 500GB HDD.

[VipFREAK]

Hmm... gonna have to keep an eye on this for later. xD :cough: DVR hopefully :cough:

[babycarlitos]

Dont use an exclosure, they seem to cause the hdds to fail. That happened to me once, but a very small drive, I think only 24gb. But now I bought another 3.5 hdd enclosure, and gutted the internal parts, so now I just 2 hard drives on my desk with a small chip, and cords of course. I've had it this way for about a year now, no problems. I also bought another 250gb drive and have the both hooked up tot he same cable, I just switch the power cord between them, one is fat formatted for the ps3. I just bought the cheapest enclosure I could find, and took out the chip, its only 1'x3' maybe.


so you have this or did you make your own out of an enclosure?

[Vanigan]

Enclosures causing HD failures is probably just anecdotal. Another thing to remember is that people often put their older drives (such as that older 24GB drive) into enclosures, which means they're more likely to fail simply because the drives are older.

There's other factors like the type of enclosure, whether the enclosure is stationary on the desk or moved around a lot, etc...

At first I didn't think anyone could really use all that extra HD space, but for those using the PS3 as a kind of media center, putting in a big hard drive, letting the PS3 rip all their music, then putting on a bunch of ripped DVDs onto the system sounds like a good way to go.

[V4oLDbOY]

Ok this is what I'm using

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/9640/dsc03125il0.jpg

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9634/dsc03128iv6.jpg


The original enclosure was pretty much two pieces of metal, four walls of metal, and a small chip with usb-out and power-in. It came with a usb cord (the silver one in the picture), and a power supply (similar to 360s, but a lot smaller).

The folded up/clipped cord that connects the two hard drives is from a very old dell pc I gutted and threw away about a year ago (you can buy much shorter ones, but I'm just too lazy/cheap to). The one that comes with the enclosure is for only one hard drive, the ones in pcs are meant for 2.

Then I had to format one of the drives to fat32, i think, so that the ps3 would recognize it. Only problem is that files can only be 4gb or less, so a lot of HD video files I have wont fit. But DIVX files work great with it.

But this is only useful if you want 2 external hdds for cheap. If you only want 1 to use with the ps3 or a pc, just buy an external hdd like the seagate I have, or just buy and use the enclosure, dont take it apart. So hdd #1 is for my pc, normally formatted. And hdd #2 is for my ps3 (fat32 formatted).

This probably wont help anyone...

[babycarlitos]

each mkv is about 4 gigs for a 720p and about 9 or more gigs for a 1080p ... so my 40 gig cant hold anything really and i dont feel like buying dual layers and have massive amounts of blanks just laying around , i rather hook up a big drive ( 300- 500 ) gig and have it all in one
an external hd wont help cuz it would be fat 32 and it has the 4 gig limit, and splitting movies is a pain not to mention bad , since you are into a movie and it just stops to then load the second part

[V4oLDbOY]

each mkv is about 4 gigs for a 720p and about 9 or more gigs for a 1080p ... so my 40 gig cant hold anything really and i dont feel like buying dual layers and have massive amounts of blanks just laying around , i rather hook up a big drive ( 300- 500 ) gig and have it all in one
an external hd wont help cuz it would be fat 32 and it has the 4 gig limit, and splitting movies is a pain not to mention bad , since you are into a movie and it just stops to then load the second part

yeah, HD movies are a pain in the ass to get to play. I dont use the ps3 for that anymore. I use to just convert them and then put them on a dvd (4.7gb) and use that. but now I just play them off my laptop which is connected to a hd monitor. But I still use the ps3 to play divx movies. I tried the streaming route, but it was just too slow.

[babycarlitos]

Ok this is what I'm using

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/9640/dsc03125il0.jpg

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9634/dsc03128iv6.jpg


The original enclosure was pretty much two pieces of metal, four walls of metal, and a small chip with usb-out and power-in. It came with a usb cord (the silver one in the picture), and a power supply (similar to 360s, but a lot smaller).

The folded up/clipped cord that connects the two hard drives is from a very old dell pc I gutted and threw away about a year ago (you can buy much shorter ones, but I'm just too lazy/cheap to). The one that comes with the enclosure is for only one hard drive, the ones in pcs are meant for 2.

Then I had to format one of the drives to fat32, i think, so that the ps3 would recognize it. Only problem is that files can only be 4gb or less, so a lot of HD video files I have wont fit. But DIVX files work great with it.

But this is only useful if you want 2 external hdds for cheap. If you only want 1 to use with the ps3 or a pc, just buy an external hdd like the seagate I have, or just buy and use the enclosure, dont take it apart. So hdd #1 is for my pc, normally formatted. And hdd #2 is for my ps3 (fat32 formatted).

This probably wont help anyone...

thanks for the pics , and that would be perfect for divx, pics n music but not for HD movies... unless they are under 4 gigs [like tv episodes (lost, heroes etc) ]
.. i guess ill buy it and then post my pics, i would rather make my own but it has to conn to the internal conn of the ps3...

[babycarlitos]

yeah, HD movies are a pain in the ass to get to play. I dont use the ps3 for that anymore. I use to just convert them and then put them on a dvd (4.7gb) and use that. but now I just play them off my laptop which is connected to a hd monitor. But I still use the ps3 to play divx movies. I tried the streaming route, but it was just too slow.

yea ima try the conn, it all can be solved just connecting a pc to the tv and get it over with , but i dont have a laptop and the pc is way too far from the tv
as far as converting , I use mkv2vob and it only takes minutes and it keeps the 5.1

[V4oLDbOY]

yea ima try the conn, it all can be solved just connecting a pc to the tv and get it over with , but i dont have a laptop and the pc is way too far from the tv
as far as converting , I use mkv2vob and it only takes minutes and it keeps the 5.1

mkv2vob works, but most of the movies ate originally 4.7gb, so converting it to vob with mkv2vob makes them over that somehow. When I used to burn them to a dvd I had to first lower the audio bitrate so it would fit.