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you know you can use your USB Drive for transferring files and storing data but if you care one of these guys with your gaming console you can do a whole lot more I'm Sharon Vaknin for Cena and today I'll show you three ways you can use a flash drive with your ps3 first up media playback instead of burning your media on a CD just to play back with your ps3 you can put music videos and photos on your USB Drive the trick is to make sure when you're moving them from your computer you organize your files into individual folders labeled music video and picture then when you plug the drive into your ps3 you'll see your media show up under each of those categories from there you can play your music watch a slideshow of photos or fire up a video say you want to pick up where your friend left off in a game or maybe you want to bring your own MLB franchise over to a friend's ps3 with your USB Drive you can backup and transfer your game saves to another ps3 plug in your USB Drive and from the game's menu go to your game saves find the game you want to transfer and hit the options button then hit copy and move it to your flash drive when you plug your drive into another ps3 you'll find the game save in the saved data utility just load up your saved file and play away finally one of the most practical and time-saving ways to use your drive is for updating your console the ps3 is notorious for making you wait while the latest software version downloads and installs before you can do anything else with your system to speed things up download the update while you're at work from the PlayStation site make sure you put it in a folder titled update on your USB Drive then when you get home all you have to do is plug it into your ps3 go to settings system update and choose to install it from your flash drive trust me it's a lot faster this way so there you go three quick tips for using a USB Drive with your ps3 and four more USB fun be sure to check out my other video on five cool uses or USB flash drive if you have any questions hit me up on Twitter and subscribe to my facebook profile for more tips like this for cnet.com I'm Sharon Vaknin