External Hard Drive for PS3?

[andrew r]

I've got my fingers burnt once with my beloved PS3, and lost all of the data. Just wondering whats the best external hard drive out there to get to back up my game data? I'm looking for ones that are already converted to FAT32, so I only need to add the folders for the saves. Any help please?

[mced]

I've just bought a 500GB Seagate. It's too early for talking about durability, I guess.

Anyway, "external" hard drives are exactly the same units as the internal ones (2.5'' or 3.5''), but with an USB (and/or Firewire or LAN) interface. So there are only three or four brands: Seagate-Maxtor, Western Digital, Hitachi and Samsung.

I guess all modern drives are formatted in NTFS; just connect it to a Windows machine and re-format it as FAT32. Five minutes.

Keep in mind that FAT32 doesn't allow files bigger than 4GB (Wikipedia).

[andrew r]

Thanks man. So there maybe a game I may not be able to save then? Hmmm. I'll look at the Seagate one then.