Official PS3 External Hard Drives - What Cost?
Torne can support up to four external hard drives at once.
Continuing its third-party peripheral licensing initiative, Sony Computer Entertainment has now sold the use of its PlayStation brand on Buffalo's upcoming external hard drives in Japan. It was announced that two upcoming models will be sold with the official Sony license, ahead of the March launch of the PS3's digital video recorder, Torne.
One model, the Piano Black HD-AV500U2/SC (nice name) is a horizontal device, that features a gauge that shows remaining hard disc space. This will cost you ¥14,800, or a whopping £105! The second model, the Black HD-CL500U2/SC (classy), is of a vertical type and doesn't have the meter – that'll be ¥11,800, or roughly £80.
Both external hard drives feature 500GB of disc space and come with a USB 2.0 cable to connect to your PlayStation 3. So essentially, you're paying £25 more for a box to lay flat and have a meter. Even then, we'd suggest the Japanese could find a better deal by heading to their nearest Maplin or Play... or whatever.
PS3s can connect to any external hard drive device, and can even have its internal HDD switched if you have the (not-very-technical) know-how. Apparently, Buffalo revealed that Torne – the Japanese equivalent of PlayTV – allows up to eight external hard drives to be registered, and up to four connected at once. That's a lot of hard drive space for tentacle porn.
The Buffalo devices will be launched next month.
Via Andriasang
One model, the Piano Black HD-AV500U2/SC (nice name) is a horizontal device, that features a gauge that shows remaining hard disc space. This will cost you ¥14,800, or a whopping £105! The second model, the Black HD-CL500U2/SC (classy), is of a vertical type and doesn't have the meter – that'll be ¥11,800, or roughly £80.
Both external hard drives feature 500GB of disc space and come with a USB 2.0 cable to connect to your PlayStation 3. So essentially, you're paying £25 more for a box to lay flat and have a meter. Even then, we'd suggest the Japanese could find a better deal by heading to their nearest Maplin or Play... or whatever.
PS3s can connect to any external hard drive device, and can even have its internal HDD switched if you have the (not-very-technical) know-how. Apparently, Buffalo revealed that Torne – the Japanese equivalent of PlayTV – allows up to eight external hard drives to be registered, and up to four connected at once. That's a lot of hard drive space for tentacle porn.
The Buffalo devices will be launched next month.
Via Andriasang
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deleted 2 Feb 2010 11:19
1/4
my local tesco have 2.5 inch Drives going for £39.99 500GB and £69.99 1TB and they can be lay flat or stood up and have leds to indicate drive fill status and come in black with blue leds!, plus its self powered.
rip off sony indeed and just not as rip off as MS HDD pricing.
rip off sony indeed and just not as rip off as MS HDD pricing.
DrkStr 2 Feb 2010 13:09
2/4
@haritori How is rip off Sony when its another compny selling these HDDs?
As said in the article Sony lets you use any hdd and any external hdd and caddy, not the same as Microsoft forcing you to use their hdds at stupid prices.
As said in the article Sony lets you use any hdd and any external hdd and caddy, not the same as Microsoft forcing you to use their hdds at stupid prices.
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Billy 2 Feb 2010 14:44
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I got a Western Digital 500gb for very little, formatted it using the fat32 utility off the net, and hey presto, away you go.
Because of FAT32, you can't store files over 2gb though, so be warned!!
Because of FAT32, you can't store files over 2gb though, so be warned!!
config 3 Feb 2010 09:42
4/4
@Billy FAT32 has a maximum filesize of 4GB, not 2GB.