I had a 320gb drive from my new laptop sitting here so I threw it in my 80gb PS3. I used the back up utility to save all my data (13gb worth) onto a USB drive. Swapped drives, reformatted, restored data. It says 250/298gb free. If I restored 13gb of data, what the hell is using the other 35gb?
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ps3 disk space use?
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Godmachine
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive
On top of that the PS3 uses a portion of that space for temp files and system files.
On top of that the PS3 uses a portion of that space for temp files and system files.
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Most importantly is that if memory serves me, the PS3 uses a percentage of the total available hard drive not just a certain number of GB for its system files. Enjoy your big hard drive though!
Why did you link me a wikipedia page on hard disk drives?
That's what I figured. Seems rather silly but then again I have zero understanding of how the ps3 file system works.
If I did the sensible thing of checking free space BEFORE swapping drives, I could confirm that. Of course I didn't.
edit: further google searching netted me with 12% reserved, which perfectly explains my "missing" space.
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MrGuvernment
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he linked about drives so you can understand why a 320G drive isnt actually 320G when formated.
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Sure it is.
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1347640
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1347640
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he wasn't complaining about the formatted size, he was complaining about the used space being too high.
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