Anyone have PS3/PS3 Hard drive experience

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wiggy:
So you're just gonna let it sit and collect dust? As much as sending it might suck, it prolly sucks a lot less than a big, shiny black paperweight :(

Just send it in without the drive, which is what I imagine they want you to do anyway, and then at least you'll have something to play.

madrocsz:

--- Quote from: wiggy on January 19, 2013, 05:02:33 PM ---So you're just gonna let it sit and collect dust? As much as sending it might suck, it prolly sucks a lot less than a big, shiny black paperweight :(

Just send it in without the drive, which is what I imagine they want you to do anyway, and then at least you'll have something to play.

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I will eventually fix it, just 150$ to sony to fix it isnt justifiable when I can buy a new one for that. Unless they send the exact same system back (which I doubt they will do) the hard drive is worthless.

Getting another ps3 is the easy part, getting saves back is another

DarrienEmerald:
I don't have an answer for the OP, sadly, but I just wanted to clear up a few misunderstandings in the replies. There are no limits to how many times you can download your PSN purchases; the only limitation is that you can only have two systems activated, or valid, to use them at a given time (five systems, if the purchase was made prior to 2012, I think, or whenever it was that they changed the policy; it only affected new purchases made after that date). Even if your system dies, as long as you have an internet connection, you can go to Playstation.com, and log in with your PSN account and deactivate the system; the only catch is, it will deactivate all systems, so if you have another one, you'll have to reactivate it, which is a simply two-minute event.

Again, after the fact, but with the older PS3 systems, I recommend taking advantage of the back-up tool under System Tools, and backing up your data on a regular basis. It will even copy over non-copy-able files, and you can restore it to another hard drive (it will, however, format the hard drive it's restored to, so make sure you do this to a fresh one).

Check with any local non-GameStop used game stores around your area, as well as look up Game Repair Services online, some of them may do system repairs. I would recommend only using this as a temporary measure though; once the yellow light occurs, it will occur again, with almost no exception. The repair will be good enough to use the back-up tool, or if you have a new system available quickly, there is the nice transfer tool as well. But trust me, don't consider it fixed for good. My poor original 60GB went through three seperate yellow lights before I finally retired it, first with BlazBlue Calamity Trigger, with the second occurring two months later (Star Ocean... and less than two weeks before FFXIII), and the third about six-seven months after that (honestly, no idea what I was doing; it simply yellow lighted one morning, after I had been playing something the night before).

On the plus side, the newer slims and super-slims are almost universally better, unless you just can't live without PS2 games. And that nice white super-slim is dropping at the end of the month...

wiggy:
A re-ball is a permanent fix. Aside from sending it to Sony, that's the ONLY repair service I'd even consider.

Super slim is so damned ugly even purdy white plastic can't save it. Like a freakin' Foreman grill that thing is.

DarrienEmerald:

--- Quote from: wiggy on January 19, 2013, 10:29:12 PM ---A re-ball is a permanent fix.
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I know it's meant to be, but in my experience, it wasn't. I sent my system to Sony both times, and like I said, after the first time it was barely two months before it died on me again. And I don't play it non-stop, or leave it on while I'm not playing. I had just picked up Star Ocean 4, and about twenty hours in over three or four days, yellow light. I'm not saying it happens a lot, but I know of at least two re-balls that failed (assuming, of course, that that IS what Sony did to my system; since I wanted it to still be their responsibility until I gave up on it, I never did crack it open and check).

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