PS3 question

[Justin]

What's the point of having a large hard drive? Before you assume I'm using this for games, I'm not. I could care less about games. I've read it is the best blueray player on the market and there's a good amount of software that will allow it to read from my Windows Home Server which contains all my music and video's. Essentially its going to be a media server, that's it. If I play any games it'll be COD4 and that's it. With the release of Netflix for the PS3 its just adding to the pot.

So, I ask again, what's the point of having a large hard drive?


I'm coming from a very un knowledgeable standpoint, I've never owned a game station before... obviously I'm not very into games

 

[Drake69]

Well, aside from the obviousness of storing downloaded and bought games to it, a large hard drive allows you to download movies and music for play/storage, in addition to any Windows Media Server you may set up. It will also allow for displaying pictures, web-surfing, and MP3 play, and the occasional downloaded inexpensive game or two, of which there are several good titles, old and new. You can also store your own movies, music, webcasts, and pictures from either the Server or from CDs/DVDs that are of varying file formats like MPG and MP3, so that you do not have to constantly connect back to your server all the time (or don't already have backed up there to begin with!). Supposedly, there's a DOC reader that someone is working on that'll read PDFs, DOCs, RTFs, and TXT files on your PS3, so this machine is getting closer and closer to being a full-on media server in its own right.

Or, I've seen people get smaller hard drives, replace the bigger one with them, then sell the larger notebook drives online (since they pull ALL their media from the server), but this doesn't happen very often since they like gaming as well. So it's really a matter of choice.

 

[Mr.PFloyd]

You don't need to have the highest gig for the ps3, but if you end up buying a lower gig one, you can swap out the hard drive with another drive you bought and not even void warranty!

 

[Justin]

Well, aside from the obviousness of storing downloaded and bought games to it, a large hard drive allows you to download movies and music for play/storage, in addition to any Windows Media Server you may set up. It will also allow for displaying pictures, web-surfing, and MP3 play, and the occasional downloaded inexpensive game or two, of which there are several good titles, old and new. You can also store your own movies, music, webcasts, and pictures from either the Server or from CDs/DVDs that are of varying file formats like MPG and MP3, so that you do not have to constantly connect back to your server all the time (or don't already have backed up there to begin with!). Supposedly, there's a DOC reader that someone is working on that'll read PDFs, DOCs, RTFs, and TXT files on your PS3, so this machine is getting closer and closer to being a full-on media server in its own right.

Or, I've seen people get smaller hard drives, replace the bigger one with them, then sell the larger notebook drives online (since they pull ALL their media from the server), but this doesn't happen very often since they like gaming as well. So it's really a matter of choice.

Thanks for the clear, straight up answer. I expected some shit from someone for the basic question. I didn't even know you could download games, or store purchased games to the drive. Don't care about storing movies or anything, they'll be on the server. I guess I just don't care about the HD capacity!

Thanks again.

 

[savannahashlee]

its to store all the data, games, playstation home, internet, bluray updates, etc etc. I have 2 60gig PS3s in my house, and for the money, I would go with one of those. Especially if you like playing PS2 games, since its already backwards compatible. You dont have to download patches or anything