PS3 HDD Mounting Bracket-Unbox & Review

I recently bought the PS3 12 GB and i found that i couldn't install more than one game in the system. Then i realized the PS3 had an opening for Hard Drives, and i thought why not install a Hard Drive in the PS3. So i bought the PS3 Hard Drive Mounting Bracket, and here is its Unboxing and Review

The Bracket comes in a nice packaging, with a blue box

Inside is the manual(pretty thick)

Some Screws

And the Bracket itself

Full Unboxed

The Bracket is made by Sony, there are cheap ones available too, but i won't recommend them, as Sony makes Playstations and it would be best to install the Bracket from the company that makes the product. The bracket costed 700 Rupees(12$) buying from online, and offline might cost you 800 Rupees(13$). The price is on the heavier side.

Build quality looks good, feels sturdy.

• 1 TB of Hard Drive can be attached to the PS3, and practically 1TB is a huge space for installing all your favourite games, videos, photos, etc
• Some money can be saved if you buy a 12 GB PS3 and buy a 1TB Hard Drive from somewhere else and install it
• The Bracket is quite easy to install, the installation will take just 2-5 minutes considering you are a newbie in computers, just screw in your hard drive to the bracket and another screw into the PS3
• The build quality is good, the bracket is made from a solid piece of metal
• Good packaging of the bracket, very well made

• The pricing could be better, considering it is just a piece of metal, and some screws
• The bracket is only compatible with the PS3 SuperSlim, and not with any other PS3 Models, what if a person has an older version of the PS3, and his/her bracket broke accidently. The person cannot get a new one. He/She might have to buy a second hand

• Only a 2.5 Inch laptop Hard Drive can be installed, a normal 3.5 Inch Computer Hard Drive cannot be installed, on it
• According to the manual the Speed must be upto 7200 RPM, or else the PS3 can heat up!! As if it doesn't heat up now Sony!!
• The manual is very thick, i wonder how many trees they chopped up to make this manual.
• The manual has a lot of Languages,but Hindi is missing. Considering i have bought it in India. Also no Indian languages were there in the manual.

Final Score-4/5

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The most easiest settings you can do are these

1. Download a OSX modded to run on a windows based pc atleast Snow Leopard the best ones are-10.6.6i by Hazard, iAtkos S3V2

2. I will be using 10.6.6i by Hazard for this as this is very good for modern computers

3. Download VirtualBox from here

4.Install & Run VB

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7. Make a 20 GB Dynamic HDD

8.Keep on clicking next till you reach Summary

9. Go to settings -->System and uncheck EFI

10. Click on storage and give the link to virtual .iso drive

11. Let it boot

12. Keep on clicking next till you reach onto hard drive installation

13. Choose any hard drive and format it to Mac OSX Journaled

14. Choose any size you want

15.Click on Customize and click on the latest Chameleon in this case "Chameleon RC5" and kernel

7. Let it install and sooner or later you will reach your Desktop

How To install OSX onto your HDD-Intel+ AMD CPU

Well first of all the installation of mac onto your HDD depends onto your computer's specifications. Secondly i do not take responsibility if anything happens to your computer

The most easiest settings you can do are these

1. Download a OSX modded to run on a windows based pc atleast Snow Leopard the best ones are-10.6.6i by Hazard, iAtkos S3V2

2. I will be using 10.6.6i by Hazard for this as this is very good for modern computers

3. Keep on clicking next till you reach onto hard drive installation

4. Choose any hard drive and format it to Mac OSX Journaled

5. Choose any size you want

6.Click on Customize and click on the latest Chameleon in this case "Chameleon RC5" and kernel

7. Let it install and sooner or later you will reach your Desktop