(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I've done a research lately about the free space on PS3 HDD
so i bought New PS3 1TB HDD I've install most of the good games and
delete them after i finished with that and when i go to the system information
it's Showing me frees pace 613 GB / 931 GB
when i go to the Multiman it's Showing me
dev_hdd0 628453 MB free
and i stile have copule of games stile left on the HDD
and i did a back ground of those games size
/dev_hdd0/game 179.48 GB
/dev_hdd0/GAMES 33.56 GB

Total are 213040 GB ok and now here i found that there's a Recycle File won't show
not on Multiman or in system Storage
931000 GB - 613000 GB = 318000
ok now
318000 GB - 213040 GB = 104960 GB is in the PS3 Recycle bin

in order to have more space PS3 Format won't do enough
i format the 1TB from my PC then i put it back to my PS3
HDD and installed CFW 4.70 update and then i installed
Homebrew app again and when i checked my my ps3 system information
it's frees pace 929GB / 931GB

i don't know if there's a Homebrew app can delete PS3 Recycle bin
and give us more free space i would like to know because i install games
like crazy on my PS3 every week

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The firmware itself once installed is 1644mb, so it's always going to show 2gb less then max even fresh out of the box. I put a 1TB on mine as well and put all my backed up games from my external onto the internal. Once I saw that the games run better from external I deleted them, after I did that I had 1746mb/931mb. How it displayed that idk but it kept displaying my available space was more then my capacity until I did some trophies for someone and rebuild the database then it displayed the normal. There's no a recycling bin but there is caches and that's what you want to remove is the contents within the cache folder. If you delete the folder itself it's just going to come right back once you download something, receive a msg, friend request etc. external hard drives are best to run back ups from due to lag. I think the lag is caused by the PS3 trying to run itself within the hard drive as well as the backed up game. It's not always noticeable but when a lot of action is going on like in nazi zombies and you kill all the zombies at once (not deleting) it is especially laggy when running it off a back up from internal. Whereas external back up lags less then the disk. Only thing I use the space for now is DLC's, game data and downloads from PSN. We still aren't going to have enough space for everything we want due to PS3 max compatible space being a 1.5TB but we'll get over it. I use a 4TB external just for backups on PS3 and almost close to half the space, and I rarely play even 1/4 of the games on a regular. Most of them I havnt even started playing. Sry I'm blabbering now. Once you remove a bunch of games and have this problem just rebuild the database.

so the lesson here is format a 1 tb drive in windows before you install it if you want to get full space? maybe the hard disk was partitioned to begin with and the ps3 ignored the second partition and left it on the drive?

1024bytes= kilobyte (kb)
1024kb= megabyte (mb)
1024mb= gigabyte (gb)
1024gb= terabyte (tb)

So when companies sell there 1TB hard drive with everything as 1000 instead of 1024 like above you'll always have less then an what's advertised. That's how computers read bytes (1024 integers).