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Cyberskunk
09-05-2010, 08:42 AM
As I don't have my AT90 yet I can't try this but would it be possible to:

1) Install a game onto a larger 2.5inch HDD which you have swapped into your PS3..

2) Swap HDD back to your original PS3 drive..

3) Connect larger 2.5inch HDD as External Drive and load back up..

Just a thought.. It's worth a try.. :)
ThreeDog
09-05-2010, 09:28 AM
No that will not work.
Midnightkilla91
09-06-2010, 11:58 AM
i am confused what your trying to say here, but i still dont see how it would work
wrathchild
09-07-2010, 08:11 PM
I don't own a PS3 yet so I'm just wondering. Can't you simply swap hdd? What I mean is, for example: take a 500gb hdd, insert it into the PS3, format it and install games, take it out, insert a different 500gb hdd into the PS3, format it and install games, and switch back and forth with them? That way all the games should run fine because both hdds are being used as internal ones, just not at the same time.
ash1471
09-07-2010, 08:29 PM
I don't own a PS3 yet so I'm just wondering. Can't you simply swap hdd? What I mean is, for example: take a 500gb hdd, insert it into the PS3, format it and install games, take it out, insert a different 500gb hdd into the PS3, format it and install games, and switch back and forth with them? That way all the games should run fine because both hdds are being used as internal ones, just not at the same time.


Yep that works fine.

ASH
wrathchild
09-08-2010, 03:15 AM
Yep that works fine.

ASH


Sweeeeeeet!!! Then I'm good to go.
fartman
09-08-2010, 02:48 PM
Hmmmm, would be nice if someone could build another casing for the PS3 which has room for the original HD as well as some extra HDs.
I imagine that if you start normal, it would boot from original HD and block the first USB-port (just to be on the safe side).
But if you start in jig-mode (with eject button pressed), it would block the network-port and boot from one of the extra drives.

Man, I wish I had the skills to build things like that :rolleyes:

But I guess weŽll be seeing some homebrew-enabling solutions that donŽt need the jig-mode startup process in the near future, so my idea would become kind of redundant...
(Well an HD-switch would still be nice, I guess :p)