before connecting or disconnecting the drive.
■ ***Important*** If you plan to disconnect the drive a lot leave the extension cable plugged into
the PS3. If you plan on hooking it up to another PS3 or computer via SATA buy another cable.
SATA connections were not designed to be disconnected and reconnected more the fifty times, it
will wear out. Buying another $6 cable and or $30-50 drive enclosure is much cheaper than
having your PS3 repaired or replaced, so don't screw up your PS3.
■ The PS3 does not have the power to handle most 3.5" SATA drives. It is best that you get an
enclosure like the one I recommend; it has it's own power source. Some people have suggested
that you can use a 22 pin male to female power and data SATA adapter (picture w/link below)
with a 3.5" drive. Your 3.5" HDD will draw too much power from the PS3 and make it freeze up.
These work great if you want to leave your 2.5" drive outside of the PS3 or if you are swapping
drives all the time, otherwise forget it.
■ If you want proof of concept (i.e. pics) don't ask me it works. I used a loose 160GB SATA drive
to test it out. I'm not dumping the change for a 750GB drive yet, though a 500GB is looking
kinda sweet right now.
Thoughts
■ If you want cut, a hole in your PS3's HDD cover and run the cable through go ahead. However, I
may at a later time make a male to male SATA cable. I will likely use the extension cable I
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