The process to update and install is fairly easy, be sure to backup your saved data on the cloud or a USB flash drive. Might take awhile to download all your apps but hey it's worth it in the end. Also available is a 1TB hardrive which is the next upgrade because I keep adding games to my collection. Look up videos on YouTube how to set it up if you need help.

This was EXACTLY what I needed to upgrade my PS3's hard drive. It was an easy installation, too. Going from a puny 10 gigs or whatever it was to begin with to 500 is INCREDIBLE. Everything I originally had on my old memory I transferred, and the system takes care of the rest. Sony made it easy, but the installation, transfer, and downloading all those new titles you want still takes a while. The price is worth it for this purpose. Definitely could be used for other purposes, but 500 gigs is enough for this console. Nothing was faulty, but be careful with anything like this while you're installing it. Definitely recommend this.

HDD in my dvr went bad and I picked up the cheapest new 500gb hdd I could find at amazon, paid $38 and got a Western Digital Caviar black. Not mad at all, in fact, the hdd is now inside my pc serving as my second gaming drive and migrated some of the games like BF1 and GTA V which both installed were ~140gb. Works like a charm.

Been using Western Digital Hard Drives for many years. My 10 yr. old Grandson wanted 500GB of Space for his Play Station 3 as a Birthday Present. I did some shopping around and price comparison finally purchasing this one. One of the big sellers is that it says on the Amazon Advertisement that this drive is for PS3 Systems.

His Birthday was on June 19th, product arrived on the 20th. His mom just took the drive home on Sunday. Not sure if they've had time to set the new drive up yet or not? I told them if they can't handle doing this, that I could do the Upgrade for them! The Sony Gaming System Upgrade is usually straight forward and easy to do!

I'll have to let you know whether it's working or not, assuming it will all go like clockwork.

Purchased this drive to replace my 150GB Playstation 3 hard drive, because I finally got to connect my PS3 to be able to download games off the PS Store! This hard drive came exactly as stated. However, when I purchased it, I couldn't tell if it was a brand new product, or a refurbished one. When I installed it, it definitely seemed like a refurbished one, because there seemed to be some data already on it. The PS3 formatted it, so I have no clue what that data was (since I did not have a way to read the drive outside of the PS3). So, take note that this is most likely a refurbished hard drive.

I only had 40 MB of space left on the stock hard drive. I transferred all my data from the PS3 onto a 160GB flash drive (which took 5 hours). I then went to the Playstation website and downloaded the most recent System Update to the USB drive (this is a REQUIRED step when installing a new hard drive. You must follow the instructions on how to create the proper file folders on the USB so the PS3 can read it.) Then switched out the hard drive with this new one (using the PS3 instruction manual as a guide). You then turn on the PS3 with the thumb drive connected, and it checks for the update. After it installed, I recovered all of the data I transferred to the flash drive (another 5 hours to transfer), and I was back up and running, with everything looking just like before. All my data was there, and I had a lot more hard drive space! So far, so good!
It seems to be running quick and quiet. If anything changes, I will update my review.