Hardware Looking for an External Harddrive that will work on Wii U and PS3

[Mariussa1]

I am looking for an external hard drive that will work on both the Wii U and PS3. Preferably 1TB.
Any recommendations? I was thinking about buying this one (https://www.komplett.no/product/845...rddisk-ekstern/seagate-expansion-portable-1tb) and I am not sure if it will work.

 

[Hayato213]

You need a separate drive, Wii U has its own format.

 

[Mariussa1]

You need a separate drive, Wii U has its own format.

Will it work on the virtual Wii though?

 

[godreborn]

yes, that setup should work.

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however, if you ustealth the drive, you'll have to take it off to use on the ps3. one suggestion is to have an hdd with a toggle switch that you can turn on when you go into the virtual wii (don't turn it on when in wii u mode).

 

[Deleted User]

Just buy two hard drives that are 500 gb, they might be a little more expensive since you usually get a small discount the bigger hdd but save up or do what you gotta do.

 

[godreborn]

that's what I'd do as well to remove the headache of mostly the wii u.

 

[Mariussa1]

Just buy two hard drives that are 500 gb, they might be a little more expensive since you usually get a small discount the bigger hdd but save up or do what you gotta do.

The problem is that the website im using doesnt sell anything lower then 1TB, and if I were to use another site it would still cost the same amount for 500GB.

 

[godreborn]

both systems can at least use 2TBs. ps3 games can be very big, so it might be worth the investment. I think ustealth alters the first sector of the drive to make it show up as unallocated memory unless an app, like usb loader gx, is designed to read that as fat32. however, I've heard at least usb loader gx can read ntfs just like most ps3 backup managers, as well. you'd have to divide the files if you use fat32, and I know some games, like sly 4, have very large single files. I think almost the entire game of sly 4 is in a psarc encrypted as an edat, which is 9GBs.

 

[Deleted User]

both systems can at least use 2TBs. ps3 games can be very big, so it might be worth the investment. I think ustealth alters the first sector of the drive to make it show up as unallocated memory unless an app, like usb loader gx, is designed to read that as fat32. however, I've heard at least usb loader gx can read ntfs just like most ps3 backup managers, as well. you'd have to divide the files if you use fat32, and I know some games, like sly 4, have very large single files. I think almost the entire game of sly 4 is in a psarc encrypted as an edat, which is 9GBs.

Yeah I remember that game Sly 4 I ended up having to use the PSN version and convert it to ISO. Couldn't get the regular ISO to work in ISO or folder.

 

[godreborn]

the file is actually so large that most decryption tools won't work (have a limit of 2GBs or less), but you can use make_npdata to decrypt it if you want to change files or make a fix. you just need the klicense, which is very easy to get via the system or the database that many people have made.