I have a 1TB HDD on my WiiU, and HATE having to use it. It's MASSIVE over-kill because I don't have nearly enough WiiU games for that kind of space (it was the cheaper than 500GB drives at the time), it takes up two USB ports since I need a Y-cable to give it enough power, and I don't like having a large hunk of plastic and metal tethered to my WiiU. I always wanted to get one of those ultra-small USB drives that barely stick out of the ports, but they were never big enough or affordable. I calculated that my WiiU games were a little over 128GB, so I would need a 256GB drive.
Recently, I was able to get a slim 256GB drive cheap, so I got to got ready to copy all of my HDD over to the USB drive, but then I realized that I had mis-counted. According to my WiiU, my games all took up 267GB, and the WiiU reported the 256GB drive I just plugged in had 238GB free.
It gave me an error that I did not have enough free space... I was expecting there to have been a gig or two overhead... but it said that I needed to free up an additional 300GB or so!
What is going on here? It wants me to "free up" more space than the game data itself takes up? Why does it need around 550GB to copy over 238GB of game and save data?
Recently, I was able to get a slim 256GB drive cheap, so I got to got ready to copy all of my HDD over to the USB drive, but then I realized that I had mis-counted. According to my WiiU, my games all took up 267GB, and the WiiU reported the 256GB drive I just plugged in had 238GB free.
It gave me an error that I did not have enough free space... I was expecting there to have been a gig or two overhead... but it said that I needed to free up an additional 300GB or so!
What is going on here? It wants me to "free up" more space than the game data itself takes up? Why does it need around 550GB to copy over 238GB of game and save data?