u both dumb lol my buddy bought a 1 terabyte hdd for 150 bucks at best buy and formatted it and plugged it into his ps3 simple as that lol i have an 80 gb ps3 hdd from another ps3 hooked up to mine
i've been doing this forever with my 180gb external that i formatted to FAT32 so i could put my downloaded movies on it and watch on ps3. works awesome.
only thing that sucks is you have to remember, FAT32 can only handle files under 4gb so on my larger 720p and 1080p movies i have to split them into a few files....