just for everyone saying "who needs that much space" it all depends on what you do with your ps3, for instance, I use it for my family pictures, music and rip my DVD collection to DVD quality MPEGS that are 2GB each so that I dont have to find a Disc each time to watch a movie. when we have people over i can start a slideshow of family pictures and leave some music playing at the same time etc. things like that fill up my HDD pretty quick. but mostly the DVDs, and I know i could have it external, but i like that when the videos are saved locally i can edit the 'icon' for the movie and I rename the field of each movie that says "album" to sort by type, like action, comedy etc.