Hey guys, I recently came into some money and I'm thinking about using it to get back on track in terms of modding my consoles. I'm very interested in setting my PS3 up to play backups, but I'm pretty clueless about the whole thing and most technical talk goes way over my head. I tried looking for help on other forums but most people chase me away for not reading FAQs that I barely understand.

Anyway, hoping you can help. Lemme start with the main question:

I have an older PS3, probably from the first year of their release (maybe the 2nd). I haven't done anything online with it in about 2 years. Will I be able to play backups?

If so, and please bear with me, how do I do it? So far all I've managed to gather is that I'll need a USB cable, an external HDD that uses USB 2.0, and a PS3 game. I have -zero- clue how to actually put the CFW on the console. So.. please help?

Thanks in advance.