What you're looking at now is the side of your hard drive.Now turn your attention to the shiny, blue screw in the middle.

You can go out and select your own hard drive instead of being forced to buy an official first-party hard-disk accessory.When I did my backup I used a Maxtor 80 gigabyte USB hard drive, but any USB hard drive with enough space will do.Connect the USB hard drive to the PS3 and the PS3 system software will automatically recognize the external USB hard drive, allowing you to copy contents from the PS3 to the external USB hard drive. This is fairly simple, just use the navigation in the PS3 to locate the media you would like to back up and copy it to the USB hard drive.Upgrading the Play Station 3 hard drive is a simple process.In the Sony PS3 manual Sony actually tells you how to do it, but towards the end, they throw in a bunch of protective legal mumbo jumbo saying you may void your warranty.