# PS3 40g owners...... **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 10, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-40g-owners/246037 "2009-08-10T22:25:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 19
**Author:** ![Shady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Shady](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shady)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-40g-owners/246037/19 "2009-08-11T18:10:19Z")
> [@WTBorrow: Someone with digital camera](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtborrow-someone-with-digital-camera/21529/2): > > well I just got another big kick in the dick from Sony. Apparently you cannot swap drives between consoles. HD’s are embedded with chip data. Swapping into a different console requires a reformatt of the drive = losing all data. > > So now I have to figure a way to keep this fucker running, or find a way to dump the data to a PC through an external drive case. It’s a segate 40gig HD. thoughts? What does it use for a connection? Is it a standard hard drive inside of sonys own enclosure? If so its probably a SATA type drive in which case you can pry it out of the case and put it in an external enclousre --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-40g-owners/246037)._