PS3: Change drive - how it works

If you want to change the drive on your PS3, you only need a few simple steps. In this practical tip, we will show you how to do this.

Change drive on the PS3 - how it works

1. You will find a guarantee sticker on the underside of the console. Below this is the first screw, which you must first loosen.
2. Now remove the cover on which the lettering "PS3" is located.
3. You then have to remove seven more screws so that you can remove the case.
4. At the height of the drive there is now a kind of cover that you have to remove now. First remove the plug on the left side.
5. Then turn the housing and then loosen the clamp that clamps a slightly wider cable. Remove this cable as well.
6. Now loosen the screws that hold the drive and then remove all cables.
7. Turn the console over and loosen another five screws until you get to the frame.
8. Here you have to loosen another five screws and first remove the white cable.
9. These screws have rubber supports that you can use for the other drive.
10. Now reinsert the new drive and reassemble the PS3 step by step.

In our next practical tip, you will learn what you should consider when opening the PS3.