Yes, but iirc hdds are better and faster, so consider that before you buy.-title-
I'm thinking on buying a big pen drive instead of the hdd. Is it recommendable? Does the WiiU supports this much storage without energy issues?
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Pen drives are generally cheaper tho, so that's another factor to consider (price/performance)Yes, but iirc hdds are better and faster, so consider that before you buy.
no, NAND's are always more expensive than HDD's, you can get a 128GB sd/usb drive for about 30 euro but a 1 TB HDD for the same price so its about 8 times more expensive to get NAND based storage.Pen drives are generally cheaper tho, so that's another factor to consider (price/performance)
no, NAND's are always more expensive than HDD's, you can get a 128GB sd/usb drive for about 30 euro but a 1 TB HDD for the same price so its about 8 times more expensive to get NAND based storage.
NAND is the most common type of flash storage that's why I was refering to it as so. I was just showing that HDDs where much cheaper than Flash based/NAND storageHow come?? I didn't really get your message. Why the NAND?
You can get some pretty dang cheap legit 128 gig pen drives on Amazon (if memory serves, around $20, but I could be wrong)no, NAND's are always more expensive than HDD's, you can get a 128GB sd/usb drive for about 30 euro but a 1 TB HDD for the same price so its about 8 times more expensive to get NAND based storage.
That's still not cheaper, also 1 time deals don't really Count as the average price of one..You can get some pretty dang cheap legit 128 gig pen drives on Amazon (if memory serves, around $20, but I could be wrong)
Pen drives are generally cheaper tho, so that's another factor to consider (price/performance)
Every argument you have, the inverse could be easily argued and won.I would personally not recommend using a hard disk for this kind of storage, myself. Yeah, it's cheaper per-bit, but it loses out in almost every other way. Raw read and write speeds are bottlenecked by the Wii U's ageing USB ports moreso than any disk you use. And while NAND chips can be cluttered and bogged down by fragmentation, hard disks suffer far more from that issue if you somehow use your storage enough for that to become a problem.
Also, there's the power problem. Hard disks are mechanical, and guzzle power. NAND storage isn't, and doesn't. And if you have any stupid kids or pets around who love doing things specifically because they're not supposed to, hard disks are liable to get dropped. And unless you're paying through the nose for military grade, that will almost certainly ruin the thing.
That said, maybe the cheaper price point is all you're after. More power to you.
It is to protect themselves when the writes wear down the drive and you go to them seeking compensation. They can point out they advised against it.I think nintendo is advising against pendrives on grounds that Wii U possibly does a lot of reads and writes during the game, every save is a write process at least, and there could be some OS indexing and stuff going on and writing software meta notes (like playtimes etc.) fairly often.
I do not know, but I know nintendo says that while USB stick might work do not use one. I have used one before, since I have 8gig Wii U (two these days but I digress) - I got a free game with my Mario Kart 8. choosing Wonderful 101 which is a 10gig game I needed something to store it, and before yanking a 320gig USB HDD out of nowhere I used a 16 gig memory stick. They work. But like said not recommended for possible write related issue.