[Cheezdoodles]

Yo.

My 40 gig ps3 only has 500 Mb left of space! How do I delete installs etc. I have deleted everything I could find but that only gave me 3 gigs. I guess what I'm asking is where can I find all installed files?? And other stuff that one can delete

[Arwin]

Under Game there's a folder called something like Game Data - here you should be able to find cached data and such. Make sure to check that it's actually game data and not a save when you delete it, among other by checking its size (information can usually be gotten using triangle / information)

[slider]

And later on consider a hdd upgrade! I'm at the stage of drilling my original one out (cos I can't get the frikkin screw out no matter what I try) but once I have changed it it'll re-open PSN for me. I haven't purchased anything in months or used PSN+ DLs and have even deleted lots and lots of game data. Makes me sad.

[BoardBonobo]

The first thing I did, when I got my PS3 fat and then again when I got a slim, was to replace the standard HD with a 500Gb. I've also attached a 500Gb external for backups and movies etc. I've always used a WD Scorpion Blue, they're very quiet and don't run too hot which is ideal.

It just makes using PSN hassle free because you don't need to be thinking about how much space you've got.

[Shifty Geezer]

I've the original 40Gb HDD and I have no problems with space. If you finish games, you can erase them no worries. They are always available to download again should you ever wish to return.

I've just downloaded the 2GB LBP2 demo and 500 GB RISK demo. I've 7Gbs free and a few GBs of games on that I'm not playing and likely won't play ever again, like Warhawk and Rag Doll Kung Fu. So replacing the HDD really isn't necessary unless you are the sort of person who either likes to keep everything, or is using your PS3 as a media deivce. But the latter choice isn't really ideal, and you'd be better off investing in a proper media server and connect to that, so you can share media across the home network.

[I.S.T.]

I would shudder to think of how massive a 500 GB game is...

[upnorthsox]

Gotta wonder how long it'd take to download too. I'd be in to the PS4 era before it finished on my connection.

[patsu]

Originally Posted by slider

And later on consider a hdd upgrade! I'm at the stage of drilling my original one out (cos I can't get the frikkin screw out no matter what I try) but once I have changed it it'll re-open PSN for me. I haven't purchased anything in months or used PSN+ DLs and have even deleted lots and lots of game data. Makes me sad.

Have you tried using a long nose plier ?

[I.S.T.]

Originally Posted by upnorthsox

Gotta wonder how long it'd take to download too. I'd be in to the PS4 era before it finished on my connection.

I could do it in about.... three days. I can download about 15 gigs in an hour.

[Cheezdoodles]

Originally Posted by Shifty Geezer

I've the original 40Gb HDD and I have no problems with space. If you finish games, you can erase them no worries. They are always available to download again should you ever wish to return.

I've just downloaded the 2GB LBP2 demo and 500 GB RISK demo. I've 7Gbs free and a few GBs of games on that I'm not playing and likely won't play ever again, like Warhawk and Rag Doll Kung Fu. So replacing the HDD really isn't necessary unless you are the sort of person who either likes to keep everything, or is using your PS3 as a media deivce. But the latter choice isn't really ideal, and you'd be better off investing in a proper media server and connect to that, so you can share media across the home network.

GT5 install is 8 GIGS! I agree that 40gb is usually fine

[Arwin]

I personally like replaying games and have a lot of games I return to (ir)regularly or that have DLC (songs for Singstar, Rockband), and since it costs so extremely little to upgrade, and you tend to get a faster drive to boot ...

[patsu]

Originally Posted by Cheezdoodles

GT5 install is 8 GIGS! I agree that 40gb is usually fine

I heard DC Universe Online is 16Gb when fully installed !

[tirminyl]

Originally Posted by patsu

I heard DC Universe Online is 16Gb when fully installed !

Yep, it is. I had to clean the fridge to install that. I'm running low on space on my 250gb drive

Don't forget, in the Video section, there is a Blu-Ray utility folder. Cached data is stored there from Blu-Ray movies that you can check the space size and delete.

[Shifty Geezer]

Something's a bit iffy. It appears disk capacity is getting eaten by invisible files.

I had 9 GBs free from 37GBs available. I counted PSN games and they're about 6 GBs. I checked save game data and found Borderlands comes to 5.5 GBs and Uncharted 2 another gig and a half, anda few hundred MBs besides from other gamse. Apart from a few photos I've no media. So all in all, that's less 16 GBs of visible content I could clear off. Add the 9 GBs free, that's 25 GBs, out of 37. So where are the other 12 GBs?!

[N_B]

Do you use Home?

[Shifty Geezer]

Nope. Nor PlayStation life, not MUBI (deleted its stuff) nor Lovefilm. I've streamed a few programmes on BBC iPlayer and done a resonable amount of web browsing over the years, GameTrailers and YouTubing. But unless the browser keeps every single downloaded vid, that shouldn't be eating my HDD space!

[goonergaz]

37GB? Do you mean you have the 40GB model?

How about vidzone? Is it possible Sony 'reserve' XGB for some game compatability?

[kagemaru]

This was an annoyance when I sold my ps3. Wanted to delete everything quickly and ended up just performing a factory reset which took forever. Would love it if there was just a general Memory section in the XMB to see everything on your HDD.

Originally Posted by Cheezdoodles

GT5 install is 8 GIGS! I agree that 40gb is usually fine

I thought Sony limited it to 5gb installs, has that changed?

[Gradthrawn]

Originally Posted by kagemaru

I thought Sony limited it to 5gb installs, has that changed?

Kaz cannot be contained by artificial limitations set by mere mortals.

[djskribbles]

[Shifty Geezer]

Originally Posted by goonergaz

37GB? Do you mean you have the 40GB model?

Yep.

How about vidzone? Is it possible Sony 'reserve' XGB for some game compatability?

I have used that a couple of times when it first came out. I suppose it may reserve space, but then as it's a music streaming service that doesn't make much sense!

What would be worth doing as an epxeriment is grabbing an old PS3 and factory resetting, and then seeing what updates do what to the available HDD space. Although if capacity is being reserved by FW we wouldn't see that.

[KongRudi]

The browser probably cache some but not 9GB.. :P

[goonergaz]

Originally Posted by Shifty Geezer

Yep.

I have used that a couple of times when it first came out. I suppose it may reserve space, but then as it's a music streaming service that doesn't make much sense!

I know it steams but I don't know if some files are held on the HDD to cut down the treaming time. For example, initially we'd get buffering but now our play-list plays with no issues whatsoever. Just a thought. Certainly you'd never get the full 37GB, that's like a totally clean 40GB HDD isn't it? I would have thought 33GB is nearer the mark.

[Shifty Geezer]

There was reserved space, you're right. I've probably just looked at 37GBs and stupidly though that was 3gigs gone rather than account for the GB/GiB conversion!

[Dregun]

I recently replaced my 40gb with a newer 320gb version and noticed that a % of HDD space seems to be taken up rather then a set amount.

Before I transfered my data between my two consoles I checked the amount of available space. Mind you this was just me turning on the console and not even playing a single game, logging into PSN Store, PSN or going on the internet. My console was missing around 30GB, after doing a quick calculation I began once again to hate the underhanded "marketing" of storage space.


Back in the day things were binary. 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024. Since 1024 was 2 to the 10th power it became the standard for describing Kilo, Mega and Giga. Now what is supposed to happen is if a drive says its 1GB it should be:

1024 bytes = 1KB
1024 Kbytes = 1MB
1024 Mbytes = 1GB

However manufacturers have been skimping and misrepresenting the sizes by just rounding everything to a base of just 1,000. So this is why your PS3 is never the size it is supposed to be

320GB PS3 should have a total of 335,544,320,000 bytes (Binary)
Instead
320GB PS3 has a total of 320,000,000,000 bytes (Decimal)

Nothing too severe right...? Looking at the numbers its only off by 15 and some change...but. Once we start deviding that number as a computer or PS3 would do to calculate the size we have to devide that by 1024 so when doing so we get..:

320,000,000,000 bytes / 1024 = 312,500,000 Kilobytes
312,500,000 Kilobytes / 1024 = 305,176 MegaBytes
305,176 MegaBytes / 1024 = 298 Gigabytes

This has been happening ever since the first few GB drives hit the market, it was easier for a manufacture to say they have a 1GB drive even if they didn't actually have all the MB needed to make it that much.

Even scarier... This is how many GB are in a 1TB drive with that misrepresentation.
931GB = 1TB ..yeah you lost 93GB by their math because 1024GB = 1TB! If we ever manage to get to 1024TB the loss because of this system is going to wreak havok