If you have updated your PlayStation 3 to Firmware 3.41, you may have noticed that the download was much quicker than previous updates. Somewhere in the past, Sony enabled quick “patches” to be downloaded to the console, rather than downloading the full firmware update which is over 130MB.
If you already have Firmware 3.40 installed, you can update to v3.41 by simply installing a 40MB patch instead of the full update. If you have PlayStation Plus and Auto-Update enabled, you don’t have to worry about a thing, as you system will have been updated already.