If you have a gaming console that came with a small hard drive or no hard drive at all, and then adding an external hard drive is pretty quick and easy solution. Sure, it can replace the original hard disc that came in a system with a larger one, but those laptop hard drives can get very expensive, especially in larger capacities.
...Choosing an external hard drive
Of course, you will need a hard drive and enclosure. Almost any USB external hard drive will work for your potrebe.Glavna difference is, if you're looking for portability vs. storage size. If you have a laptop hard drives lying around, and then buy a 2.5 "laptop hard drive enclosure. The advantages of using a smaller laptop hard drive has to be much smaller and more portable, and most likely does not require power. However, notebook drives usually pale in capacity compared to regular 3.5 "drives in the same price. 3.5" external hard drive will store much more content, but will probably require an additional power connector. If your gaming console is usually found in one place and not likely to move, this type of hard drive can be the best solution.
Formatting the hard drive
game consoles need an external hard drive that is formatted in FAT32 file system. You can use almost any hard drive currently sells in the market, as FAT32 supports hard disks up to 2 terabytes in size. However, the limitation of FAT32 is that it can not hold individual files larger than 4 GB in size. Also, Windows 2000 and XP can not create or format partitions larger than 32GB. Windows 98 users can only create and share goes up to 127GB in size. Therefore, in order to create a FAT32 partition and format it above 32GB or 127GB limitations, you will need a tool like Partition Magic or another drive / partition utility. I highly recommend CompuApps Swissknife, which can be downloaded for free at download.com for PC users. Mac OSX users can simply open / Applications / Utilities / Disk Utility.app, select the desired drive and click delete. Select "MS-DOS (FAT)" and then click on 'delete' button. You should now have a hard drive formatted in FAT32.
Once the drive is done formatting in FAT32, it's simply a matter of uploading content to your new drive and connecting it to the gaming console. Simply plug the USB cable into an available USB port on the front of the Playstation 3, or the back of your Xbox 360 console. Your game console should recognize your new device automatically, and allow you to browse your new files on.
