So we know the disc drive reads around 22.5 meg a sec and usb 2.0 tops out around what...40ish meg a sec? How fast is the internal flash? Would it be comparable to a ssd plugged in or slower?
Internal is going to be way faster. I don't know specifically about the flash in the Wii U, but a good SSD can reach speeds over 500MB/s.
Not according to this benchmark. External SSD > Internal > External HDD > Disc, with about a second difference between the fastest and the slowest in that game.
So we know the disc drive reads around 22.5 meg a sec and usb 2.0 tops out around what...40ish meg a sec? How fast is the internal flash? Would it be comparable to a ssd plugged in or slower?
Internal is going to be way faster. I don't know specifically about the flash in the Wii U, but a good SSD can reach speeds over 500MB/s.
...And not including at least ONE USB3.0 port was incredibly stingy of Nintendo - PS4 & BXO both have that capability; and yes I know that technologically Wii U isn't competing with them but this isn't about graphics or CPU speeds. They could have at least made the hardware upgradable. But then, this is Nintendo - so is anyone really surprised?I dunno, when the wii u came out, the max storage option was 32gb when the previous gen had stock hard drives up to 500gb. Kind of unexcusable really. But whatever, at least you can easily attach more storage. If only they had usb 3, that would make external ssd a clear winner.