SlashGear Japan
By now we’ve all pretty much figured out that Sony will just slowly keep upping the capacity by 20GB until the end of time. That’s why Hori has decided to make their own external drive for the console.
Hori will be releasing an external 160GB 5400 PS3 hard drive in August. The drive will be specially designed for use with the Playstation 3 and will get its power from the USB port, so you only have one cord to worry about.
The only thing is that this is really just an external hard drive that they are calling an “external PS3 drive” so that people will pay extra for it. The 160GB drive is going to set you back around $240, now that’s salty.
PS3 Gets 160GB HDD [via kotaku]
2 Responses to “Hori to release 160GB external drive for the Playstation 3”
Ray November 26, 2007
I can understand the need for an external hard drive but $240 for ONLY 160 GB’s. They need to fire the guy who came up with that idea! I am currently looking for a way to make regular external hard drive ($79) compatible with the ps3.
NeutralNick November 24, 2008
@Ray Any external drive will work with PS3, you just need to make sure it is formatted in the FAT format, not NTFS. NTFS stands for (Windows NT Format System) which is why it won’t work with PS3. I have a 500gb on mine for all my photos, music, videos etc… Cost me about $70
Neutral