Connecting Extra Storage to your PS3

This actually is a very straight forward operation - connect your thumb drive or USB hard drive to any of the PS3's USB ports. The drive will then typically show as “USB Disk (One Touch II)” in the PS3’s video, photo, and music menus.

Important things to remember - When navigating a USB drive’s folders, use the PS3 menu for the type of media you wish play or the files won’t show up. External drives must be formatted with the FAT32 file system for the PS3 to read the files on it. Memory cards (Memory Stick, SD, or CompactFlash) go in the clearly labelled slots under the door at the front of the PS3's, and they don't require specific formatting.

You can access a network-attached storage device by mounting it on a networked computer. Then select your media server in the main PS3 window, and navigate to Folders - Volumes, and select the networked drive you want. You should note that this doesn't work with Windows Media Player's UPnP server, but it works fine with TVersity (Windows) and MediaLink (Mac).

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