It’s been a couple months since the PS3 2.70 firmware update, but we’ve finally gotten the chance to test out the external video storage. In two words: it works.
You can back up your purchased videos to any external USB drive, be it a flash drive or a standard USB hard drive. The video will show up on in a backup folder inside the drive, but you can’t stream directly from the drive. So it’s not like you can connect a 1TB USB hard drive and dump all your movies onto there for on-the-fly watching. You’re limited to whatever space you have on your PS3′s drive for storage, but you can swap in/swap-out from the external drive with relative ease.
So yeah, nice job Sony for putting out this video backup. It’s great for the person who downloads a lot of movies from Sony’s PSN service, which has a surprisingly decent selection for a service that’s not that old.
Conrad Davies
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 5:22 PMPS3 Media Server allows streaming on to ps3, but a host pc has to be on to allow it in the first place.
AndrewCraick
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 6:16 PMWhy not let you use the external drive for storage and playback ?
Once again Sony taking the easy and stupid option to implement a new feature.
God Sony suck.
Give us NTFS and/or windows file sharing and get rid of that stupid UPnP for media streaming for christsakes.