I recently finally managed to hacked my Wii U, but don't have an HDD on hand ((well I do but it's used for my wii already)) What is the best HDD size consedering it'll mostly be filled with the games I own ?
Hello, it all depends on the total size of games you own. personal opinion: 1TB or 2TB is already not bad. Then it's up to you to see Little info ==>https://gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-gx.149922/page-1129#post-6662953
Is it still the case that you need a powered hdd or using a y-cable? Do "normal" modern hdd's with a single USB work now?
Hello, Yes, it is better to get a Y cable with an external hard drive, for a better connection with the console. USB keys are strongly not recommended (often black screen, are not recognized by the console)
I don't know why flash drives aren't recommended. I heard that it's because it gets written to a lot and that could wear it out. But why would it be written to a lot? When you put in a cd it's certainly not writing to it. I used a flash drive for quite a while and had no issues. I only switched to a regular hard drive for more space. Maybe using a cheap bad flash drive will cause problems.
Hello. Maybe the "Flood" of "....having Issues with Flash Drives/Pen Drives/Thumb Drives/USB Sticks...." Threads/Posts in the Wii and Wii U (vWii) Section speaks a "clear" Language ? Another Thing is,you can use it of course for your Wii U. Thank you.
Like I said, probably people using trash flash drives or knock offs. There are a lot of those. I used a good drive and it worked great.
I think you're right about read cycles; they don't wear out the flash memory. I used a thumb drive for years with no issue. Funny story, I had a science teacher in college tell me "Be careful with magnets around your thumbdrives, class. They could erase your data." I had to explain to him that flash drives aren't magnetic media
Size of HDD vary depend on how much a person wants to install, having a larger size HDD doesn't hurt.
