Ps3 .. Umm.. Problem Of Some Sort

[oweban]

USB 3.0 uses a different chip on the board, IIRC. it's possible that routing through that board is making the PS3 not understand.

It's like a WD external I got recently, the 2.5" 1Tb: the board on that goes direct to USB 3.0, so it has something called WD SES that needs to be installed, basically a SCSI interface driver of some sort. Maybe the PS3 doesn't like that at all..?

[EeLeYe]

You could be right. It's a Samsung and it likes to launch Kies every time I hook it in. I don't allow it to but yeah.

So by using a USB 2.0 cable, I'm guessing it bypasses the USB 3.0 functionality... Seeing as the 2.0 cable doesn't plug into the extended section of the port.

[oweban]

All good, considering PS3's can't run USB 3.0 anyway (well from memory anyway). Wish I could have taken pics of the one all pulled apart in Sony's demo room in tokyo...

[Spurdo]

getting back to the YLOD fixes, this happened to me last year with my original 60gb phat console and it sat around for 4-5 months before i learned how to fix it.

the re-flow method worked for me but only lasted another 2 weeks, then the 2nd time i fixed it it lasted 2-3 months and i had cranked the heat gun up way hotter that time, the mobo was actually bending under it's own weight but straightened back out as it cooled.

from memory it only lasted a couple days the 3rd time and then didnt work at all after the 4th so i cut my losses there and bought a new slim.

what really shits me is how sony have made it absolutely 100% impossible to back up your data manually by taking the hard drive out to get the data off. the ONLY way to read your save games etc is using the EXACT console that that the hard drive was formatted with.

any other PS3 other will not read your hdd.

you cannot read it using a PC.

the only real way to guarantee your stuff gets backed up is to:

A: regularly back up all your saves to a usb flash drive (my favourite option) or external hdd.

B: get a PSN Plus membership, which lets you back up your saves online so sony holds all your data for you.

thats about the only potentially valuable feature of plus if you ask me. other than that its just a few free themes/avatars (lame) and waste of time really small discounts (5-10%) off SOME dlc items/games. for what it costs.. total waste of money IMO

[DivHunter]

You seriosuly can't just move the HDD to another PS3? That's harsh and I was annoyed when I found out my brother's original version xbox wouldn't read the USB stick I use on mine. You can just swap the HDDs though.

[EeLeYe]

Yeah I agree. The backup process in the ps3 is of the ghey.

If anything, allow it to be swapped into another ps3 and just have some sort of password security rather than being forced to back up into portable storage and having to format the hdd...

[QWK32]

Is there anyway to setup an auto backup of saves to a networked drive? The only way I've seen to get the saves to external drive was from the save manager and manually selecting copy to USB.

[EeLeYe]

That's the only way to back up to another medium.

A way to use the network is if you have two ps3's and transfer the data from one to the other. This then deletes everything off the original ps3. And it's also the only method where EVERYTHING copies over.

I installed everything into my new ps3 from the back up and all of my demos and games stored on it are no longer there. Videos n music remains though.

[QWK32]

edit: double post

Edited October 21, 2011 by QWK32

[QWK32]

That's the only way to back up to another medium.

A way to use the network is if you have two ps3's and transfer the data from one to the other. This then deletes everything off the original ps3. And it's also the only method where EVERYTHING copies over.

I installed everything into my new ps3 from the back up and all of my demos and games stored on it are no longer there. Videos n music remains though.

Yeah thought as much. I suppose it would take away from the ps plus feature of saves being backed up automatically if you could do similar for free.

Demos and games aren't really an issue as you can just re download them, albeit a waste Internet usage. But it would suck to loose all my saves.