I recently got a bigger hard drive for my PS3 and it turns out my friend doesn't have the free space I need on his flash drive to copy my current content from my old hard drive. So what would be better a flash drive or portable hard drive... is there any advantages to having a flash drive or portable hard drive handy besides just for my PS3... I've looked around a little and it seems like flash drives are either really expensive or don't have enough space that I need. Also, if I go with a portable HD are there any specifications it has to have to be compatible with a PS3 or will any kind work? So that's my question. Quick responses would be greatly appreciated as I'd like to either go buy one today or get one ordered.

Oh yeah there is a great advantage because if your PS3 hard drive goes you still have all your info and saved games on the thumb drive or external hard drive and you can then just upload them on the new PS3 hard drive.

I would get the external hard drive so you can use it on your computer and PS3. You only really need like a 250GB or 500GB external hard drive. It hooks up through the USB port.

if you have an iPod or something like it u can plug it into the ps3 and put it on ipods and stuff like that are just storage devices that also play music for me