ps3 chip and hacking?

[buck440]

well since im on my 40GB ps3 most of the day im kinda getting into it a little more and my first mod is to put a extremely much larger hardrive in it prolly a 320 or 500GB one and my next question is can i just swap out the chips and make it backwards compatible? sorry if what im saying sounds dumb cause i really dont know much about this stuff. and i have been hearing somthing about linux? what is that? if you can explain it in noob terms it would be much appreciated:)

[mineralgrey01gt]

sell it and find a used 60gb, it was the best one made yet, backwards capability is flawless on it, not like on any of the other models. I have one and ill never use the 60gb memory

[Bruce300ex]

I udgraded my 40gb to a 320gb and it only cost me 80$
pretty sweet consider i have 250gb left after i put 5 full lenght movies, 50 game trailers,few hundred songs, and 10 game demos
also anyone check out the killzone 2 demo pretty sweet

[buck440]

im prolly getting way over my head anyway:rolleyes: but right now im downloading the resident evil 5 demo, ive been with resident evil since ps1 and it is the best game ever, cant wait for it to come out, co op online is going to be so cool!!!!!!:blah: :blah: :blah: :blah:

[slither]

as for the mod chip for the backwards comp I really dont know about that but I have a 60gb and the backwards comp works great and for your linux question it is like windows on the pc but it can be installed on a ps3
try these

http://www.gamespot.com/users/solidmaq/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-25423014

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=25543262&msg_id=286851042