Hardware External HDD Recommendations

[Joom]

Hey guys, I was wondering if any of you could recommend the optimal hard drives to use with a Wii U. Obviously, a regular one won't work due to the Wii U being too underpowered to keep it spinning, so I'm wondering which ones have a decent capacity that are worth the price.

 

[killmister2]

Any standard HDD will do, just get yourself a Y cable or powered USB hub and it will work perfectly.

 

[Joom]

Any standard HDD will do, just get yourself a Y cable or powered USB hub and it will work perfectly.

Alright. I didn't know if any could be used or not. Guess that means the 2 TB drive I bought won't go to waste.

 

[killmister2]

2 TB won't go to waste, but will be a bit overkill... I use a 500 GB, and barely use 300 GB of installed titles that I might play one day...

 

[akhlaq768]

Hey
I'm in the same issue, plug a portable hard drive and it wouldn't work with the wiiu as it wasn't being recognised

So I bought a powered external drive, but after a days use, it would return an error
How do I resolve this problem

 

[Joom]

Hey
I'm in the same issue, plug a portable hard drive and it wouldn't work with the wiiu as it wasn't being recognised

So I bought a powered external drive, but after a days use, it would return an error
How do I resolve this problem

Are you using a Y cable? I bought one off of Amazon and it works perfectly.

 

[akhlaq768]

Are you using a Y cable? I bought one off of Amazon and it works perfectly.

I haven't mate
Can you send me a link to the y cable
Also I read about hard drive going into sleep mode do I need to disable this?

 

[Joom]

Also I read about hard drive going into sleep mode do I need to disable this?

Yes. Also, this is the one I bought. Just make sure it's compatible with the brand you have.

https://www.amazon.com/Micro-B-External-Seagate-Toshiba-Hitachi/dp/B005M0ICG2

 

[Trylk248]

It depends on what kind of games you want to play. I know that games like Zelda are approximately somewhere around 4 to 15 gb. Want some MMOs ? Add a few 15 to 30gb. So the best is to take a External hard Drive, USB 3.0 with powered USB Hub with a capacity of 500gb to 1tb.