Homebrew Help me understand Read & Write speeds of the WiiU

DolphinPussy · Mar 10, 2026

How would one use homebrew to transfer titles between USB drives? It appears that using the official system transfer tool is incredibly slow, so if anyone has figured that out then props.

Update: Physical USB > SDUSB > Physical USB (larger storage) is a good workaround

depaul · Mar 11, 2026

DolphinPussy said:
How would one use homebrew to transfer titles between USB drives? It appears that using the official system transfer tool is incredibly slow, so if anyone has figured that out then props.

If disks size are exactly the same (ex: 1 TB to 1 TB disk) you can use HDD RAW COPY TOOLS and clone the entire encrypted HDD. It works.

Here's this method: works for PS3, PS4 and also WiiU.

Hacking Thread 'PS3 HDD cloned successfully'

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Hi. Just to share a method to clone PS3 internal HDD into a different drive. Please note both your HDDs must be identical in size.

1-Get your internal HDD from PS3 as well as the new HDD (or SSD). connect them to your PC.

WARNING : Don't initialize discs under Windows. Don't format or create any partition or else your encrypted HDD data will be lost.

2-Use a Raw cloning software. Most cloning Software won't work if the HDD is encrypted. I used HDD Raw Copy Tool.
https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/

3-Select your source (PS3) HDD and target (new) HDD. As you...

DolphinPussy · Mar 11, 2026

depaul said:
If disks size are exactly the same (ex: 1 TB to 1 TB disk) you can use HDD RAW COPY TOOLS and clone the entire encrypted HDD. It works.

Hell yeah! If copying from a smaller disk, to a larger disk, will one be able to have the new partition reflect its true size?

depaul · Mar 11, 2026

Sorry @DolphinPussy I don't think so. Most likely WiiU will recognize the larger drive but size restricted to the smaller storage capacity.

DolphinPussy · Mar 11, 2026

depaul said:
Sorry @DolphinPussy I don't think so. Most likely WiiU will recognize the larger drive but size restricted to the smaller storage capacity.

That's okay my friend, I don't have more that 300gb of files so I can simply leave data management overnight.

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