Sure the PS3 was intended to have a new upgraded harddrive and uses the standard laptop size and the site has the related link for your assistance
Yes. SATA drives and controllers are backwards and forwards-compatible. However, a 3.0 drive attached to a 1.5 controller will only run at 1.5 speed.
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When shopping for hard drives you should make sure that it is compatible with your computer. You should also make sure it's big enough for your files.
the hard drives can be switched and what ever was on them will stay on them.
Yes. Your ps3 will notice nothing
Toshiba hard drives, as are most USB 2 drives, are fully compatible with Mac OS X. (See links below)
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yes, they use the same hard drives, just switch the hard drive from your old 360, to the new one when you get it......
You cannot purchase hard drives with Windows pre-installed on it.
The top four brands of 1TB Hard Drives are amongst others Western Digital hard drives, Seagate hard drives, Toshiba hard drives, and Hitachi hard drives.
SATA 3 is backwards compatible, it means you connect it the same way as SATA 1.
Here is the address to the list of games that are backwards compatible (just copy and paste it into your address bar at the top of your browser and hit "enter"): http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardcompatibilitygameslist.htm You must have a hard drive on your Xbox 360 so that you can download the backwards compatibility updates either through connecting to Xbox live, or by burning the updates on a CD and putting them in the CD drive to be burned to your hard drive. Instructions on downloading the backwards compatibility updates on your 360 are here: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardscompatibility.htm