Hacking Hard drive?

[Jay L]

So I have to use a powered external hard drive with the Wii u; a usb flash or sd card in a usb adapter won't be good? Is that right?
I don't understand it if it is true, the read speed for both the external hard drive and (higher grade) SD cards should be bottlenecked by the usb 2.0 connection.

 

[dojafoja]

The issue

So I have to use a powered external hard drive with the Wii u; a usb flash or sd card in a usb adapter won't be good? Is that right?
I don't understand it if it is true, the read speed for both the external hard drive and (higher grade) SD cards should be bottlenecked by the usb 2.0 connection.

The issue isn't really about read speeds. The issue is that flash media like USB sticks can only handle a limited number of I/O operations being performed on it before corruption or complete failure occurs. USB flash drives work just fine, the problem is that after some years it will stop working. Because of that, it's not considered a good permanent storage solution. There is really no telling how long it would last.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Yeah, in short. ALL storage devices suck, none of them last life time. I think they need to fix that before trying to increase storage capacity or write/read speeds. It is almost as worst as rechargeable batteries.

 

[Jay L]

Yeah, in short. ALL storage devices suck, none of them last life time. I think they need to fix that before trying to increase storage capacity or write/read speeds. It is almost as worst as rechargeable batteries.

This is why I was a but hesitant to install cbc, seems too easy to have a issue that bricks your console.
Having just very recently gotten a Wii U (finally some price drops) and was shocked at how small the library is, even smaller if you only count good games and much smaller still if you only count exclusive games. I'll probably just sell this thing before long, dont need yet another dusk collector laying around.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

This is why I was a but hesitant to install cbc, seems too easy to have a issue that bricks your console.
Having just very recently gotten a Wii U (finally some price drops) and was shocked at how small the library is, even smaller if you only count good games and much smaller still if you only count exclusive games. I'll probably just sell this thing before long, dont need yet another dusk collector laying around.

Honestly I just install haxchi, is just enough for to do what I want. So what if it doesn't load the CFW every time I press power, how much time does it save exactly? I can wait to load it from the main menu.

Most of what i do with homebrew is playing Rom injections. If you like nintendo DS it makes a good system to play it on, not to mention high resolution and anyone who want to use capture devices to record video. Playing the game on gamepad is nice too.