Yes, yes I know. It’s a travesty that anyone could bring oneself to rip a PS3 apart, but this destruction ended up being fruitful.
If you manage to wrangle yourself a PS3, it appears the console can be dissected relatively easily. Some people who have embarked on this endeavor have had success with replacing the included hard drive for one with a higher capacity.
One person in Japan, for instance, took the console apart and replaced the included hard drive with a 120GB drive. The interesting thing here is that, if you’re feeling industrious, you could lay hands on a 20GB PS3 for $500 and cheaply upgrade it to a much larger capacity drive.
I doubt I could bring myself to dissect a PS3, but if you’re braver than I, then perhaps this is food for thought anyway.
Dissection and Hard Drive Replacement [via Engadget]
The hard drive replacement doesn’t require any dissection per se – there’s a slot you can open, and it’s easily removeable to plug another one in.
i had my ps2 apart several times. it’s never very hard to take a console apart, though i did have some extra screws when i put it back together, lol
You shouldn’t have to take it apart to replace the hd