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Value, performance and emerging storage tech tested by Digital Foundry.
The price is right. With 500GB external drives now hovering around the £40 mark, there's never been a better time to upgrade the storage capabilities of your PlayStation 3.
For owners of older consoles in particular, upgrading is swiftly becoming an essential requirement. The release of games like Gran Turismo 5 and Mass Effect 2 illustrate that lengthy, massive mandatory installs aren't going to disappear any time soon. In addition to that, downloadable content including full game and HD movie downloads also places demands on the storage you have available for your console.
The PlayStation 3 is designed to run with 9.5mm high, 2.5-inch SATA hard drives - the exact same models found in most modern laptop computers. As SATA is effectively an open standard, you can pair your PS3 with any device that uses the interface. If you want to be particularly insane, you can even hook up desktop drives externally and get a full 2TB of storage. The Xbox 360 uses the same standard of drive, but upgrade options are limited as Microsoft has locked down compatibility to very specific HDDs it licenses.
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The price is right. With 500GB external drives now hovering around the £40 mark, there's never been a better time to upgrade the storage capabilities of your PlayStation 3.
For owners of older consoles in particular, upgrading is swiftly becoming an essential requirement. The release of games like Gran Turismo 5 and Mass Effect 2 illustrate that lengthy, massive mandatory installs aren't going to disappear any time soon. In addition to that, downloadable content including full game and HD movie downloads also places demands on the storage you have available for your console.
The PlayStation 3 is designed to run with 9.5mm high, 2.5-inch SATA hard drives - the exact same models found in most modern laptop computers. As SATA is effectively an open standard, you can pair your PS3 with any device that uses the interface. If you want to be particularly insane, you can even hook up desktop drives externally and get a full 2TB of storage. The Xbox 360 uses the same standard of drive, but upgrade options are limited as Microsoft has locked down compatibility to very specific HDDs it licenses.
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