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what's up guys it's Lou from unbox therapy I want to show you how to put one terabyte of storage into your Playstation 3 this is a standard laptop size harddrive two and a half inch drive I'll put a link to the model I used down in the description you're also going to need an external hard drive to backup the data that's already on your ps3 so you don't lose your game data game saves so on and so forth after you've got those two items you want to turn on your ps3 and scroll over to settings followed by system settings from there you want to scroll down until you see backup utility that's going to allow you to backup all your game saves and all your game data from there you've got a couple of options you want to select the top option which says backup it'll warn you whether you're about to to and then you click yes it'll say connect your storage media that means it's time to connect your external hard drive after you've done that and done them back up successfully you want to install your 1tb drive of course as you guys can see I'm working with the old-style PlayStation 3 these are the ones you're really going to want to upgrade because they have small hard drives you're going to want to get a quality Phillips screw driver because these screws are really well set in there and you don't want to strip them which I pretty much did anyway and then you got to lift this little panel here this HDD panel that's your hard drive panel you can use your fingernail just to flip it up and out of there and the first thing you're going to notice is this little blue screw the blue screw and that's the one that's got to come out actually pretty straightforward stuff spin that little baby out and after you've done that you're just going to have to slide the drive over there's a little tab there a little metallic tab that you can see on the top you flip it up grab hold of it and then slide away and just like that you'll notice a little gap there after that you can pull it up and out and you'll notice your old hard drive inside of this little cage in my case this is a really old hard drive a 20 gigabyte drive this was the very basic first ps3 saw really in need of an upgrade as you guys see there's four screws that are holding the drive into this cage those obviously need to be removed so you can get the drive out of this adapter once you've done that you can put this piece of crap 28 off to the side and grab this new beast the 1tb beast and slide it the same in the same fashion back into that cage zip those four screws back on in and then reverse the steps slide it down into the ps3 and then lift that tab and engage and from there you'll notice that that screw hole lines back up you want to grab your blue screw and slide that baby in there and then put that HDD panel back on the top it just clips into place very easy very simple now all you've got left to do is boot up your ps3 from there it'll ask you to format the drive I've already done that you're basically just clicking yes and then yes and then scroll back over to that backup utility the exact same place you were before this time you want to select restore instead of back up and this will warn you you're about to restore everything you click yes and then from there it's the same deal you just got to connect your external hard drive it will ask you to connect it and then you click ok a couple more times it'll take a little while depending on how much data you've got and once that's all said and done then you can go into your settings and check how much storage you now have you see in my case I got a lot more than I did before there's about eight hundred and sixteen gigabytes of free space I don't know why it says slash 931 I guess that's of 931 so that's all my game saves and of course the system data everything that's necessary so lots of head room to store whatever I want if you guys do this then you can do the same thing you can basically never have to worry about running out of space again anyway guys if you enjoyed this content then hopefully you can like and favorite this video as it does help me out a bunch I also want to mention if you haven't checked out my new channel yet it's called the beast feed it's my news channel I'll put a link to visit it down below I really would appreciate you guys support as you guys know you guys make this content possible and I really do appreciate your viewership anyway guys until next time and as always thanks for watching see you around you