The burden of proofAnd where's your proof that the Wii U can't handle the speed? Did you personally examine the SD reader/writer inside the Wii U?
If you don't need to provide proof, then @TheKawaiiDesu doesn't either.
The burden of proofAnd where's your proof that the Wii U can't handle the speed? Did you personally examine the SD reader/writer inside the Wii U?
If you don't need to provide proof, then @TheKawaiiDesu doesn't either.
and the USB 2.0 speed is about 35 MB/s so not a huge difference in loading time
Files on the optical disk are always contiguous. The only optimisation could be made in time of original disc image production is to place several files in a sequence they actually read. Random access your n OSD are extremely slow, even slower than in HDD. It can't handle random read with high speed..I thinks theres going to allways be an hadicap in speed unless using an SSD drive through USB wich compensates for the IOPS needed.
Well, except if you made a mistake, I wouldn't buy that, since 512GB micro SD cards doesn't exist at the moment (afaik, the max is 200GB), and even if it was a thing, it would be SDXC by default. And if it's 512MB and not 512GB, not only you won't be able to fit any Wii U game on it, but it would be a classic SD format. So it's probably a scam.So would I be fine getting a class 10 512GB micro sdhc with the adapter? I am buying an aftermarket brand so I get what I pay for.
Well, except if you made a mistake, I wouldn't buy that, since 512GB micro SD cards doesn't exist at the moment (afaik, the max is 200GB), and even if it was a thing, it would be SDXC by default. And if it's 512MB and not 512GB, not only you won't be able to fit any Wii U game on it, but it would be a classic SD format. So it's probably a scam.
I know, but I don't think he made an error on that part, since he also mentioned an adapter.Yes there isn't 512gb MICRO SD card
But there is a regular size 512 gb SD card
So would I be fine getting a class 10 512GB micro sdhc with the adapter? I am buying an aftermarket brand so I get what I pay for.
great thanks for this info. These 512gb cards are also showing up on amazon. This is nuts. BTW I am referring to microsd. Didn't even know there was a regular 512gb SD card. Would a regular SD affect the loading speed?Well, except if you made a mistake, I wouldn't buy that, since 512GB micro SD cards doesn't exist at the moment (afaik, the max is 200GB), and even if it was a thing, it would be SDXC by default. And if it's 512MB and not 512GB, not only you won't be able to fit any Wii U game on it, but it would be a classic SD format. So it's probably a scam.
great thanks for this info. These 512gb cards are also showing up on amazon. This is nuts. BTW I am referring to microsd. Didn't even know there was a regular 512gb SD card. Would a regular SD affect the loading speed?
@memomo, since I saw you've asked on another thread about loading time of "The wonderful 101" with loadiine gx2, I did a little test today with my transcend UHS 3 64gb SD card formatted at 64k cluster. The wonderful 101 (with the japan language deleted from the content folder) loaded in 17min... so it's still terrible loading time unfortunately... I haven't experimented with messing around with the content files.. maybe there is a trick like Fast Racing Neo which could make it load faster... FYI Super Mario 3d loaded in 57sec.. if anyone has a trick which could make this game load faster, please share!
yes I saw that.. I was quite surprised by those numbers. Certain card might perform better with 64k cluster formatting, or he/she might have exaggerated the numbers a bit... only way to find out would be to for another user with the exact same card to do a test and report backSomone said in the other thread it was around 35sec for him with 64K, weird !
That's really interesting... yes I've noticed that low level formatting make a big difference. Also adding all the games you want at once (instead of one by one over time) seems to create less fragmentation which improves performance. good to know about that scandisk extreme card, i mean it's pretty much twice as fast as my card which has the same specs...! do you mind posting a link to the exact card you are talking about? there are quite a few different extreme models out there. thanks!I had a typo and mixed up the cluster numbers. It's 35 secs on the SanDisk Extreme with 64k Clusters. 128k Clusters won't give you anymore improvement. Indeed I noticed that the SanDisk Extreme cards perform much better than other vendors cards with the same specs when formatted with 64k clusters instead of 32k or even worse 4k when formatted with standard options. by the way I also noticed a huge speed improvement if the card is lowlevel formatted before I put stuff on it. I have no clue why it behaves like this. on my MacPro it doesn't matter if lowlevel or standard, neither on the Windows 10 machine.
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This subject has been discussed in multiple thread in the past.. but here is what I know:
1) The WiiU has a SD/SDHC (not SDXC) slot which is not compatible with SDXC.. however SDXC cards will work if formatted in FAT32 (which is the SDHC standard of formatting)
2) The WiiU SD slot has a maximum speed read of 25 mb/s since its runs version 2 of Sd specification which utilise a High speed bus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#SDHC
3) The SD slot was made available on the WiiU only for vWii compatibility and was not meant to be used in WiiU mode.. so they didn't build it for speed
4) For speed performance with games that have a lot of small files, the important specs to look at on your card is "Random 4K read/write"... read and write advertised on SD card presented by the OP shows the maximum speed of the card... most likely speeds transferring files that are much bigger that 4k, that's why there isn't much difference between the real life speed of the 2 cards on game loading
5) has a general consensus Class 10 SD card is all you need for the WiiU, USH3 is overkill (unless the random 4k specs are awesome..)
6) there has been noticeable speed difference when formatting the sd card with different cluster size. 64K seems to be the fastest but some games have compatibility issues, second best is 32K cluster which is still fast but no compatibility issues reported that I know of.
Hope this help...