Video game players may spend countless hours on each game, working to unlock new characters, new gameplay arenas, or upgrading their characters. If the PlayStation 3’s internal hard drive were to crash, all this data would be lost. Additionally, some players may save so much game data that they need to erase this data to make room for new games on the PS3 hard drive. PlayStation 3 supports data backup to either a USB mass storage hard drive or other type of storage media.
