I just purchased one of these guys to test and see if we can use an external hdd(with external power supply)formatted in fat32 with this device and the Wii U. I will report on it as soon as I get it.
Nice. If it works, I'll probably end up getting one too. It's really cramped on my 32GB SD card...I just purchased one of these guys to test and see if we can use an external hdd(with external power supply)formatted in fat32 with this device and the Wii U. I will report on it as soon as I get it.
I just purchased one of these guys to test and see if we can use an external hdd(with external power supply)formatted in fat32 with this device and the Wii U. I will report on it as soon as I get it.
Where the heck do you even buy one of those? I've looked everywhere
Yep, that's where I got it from. The downside is that shipping is pretty expensive. I paid 140$ CAD for the sucker including shipping.
Yep, that's where I got it from. The downside is that shipping is pretty expensive. I paid 140$ CAD for the sucker including shipping.
Hoping they work. I habe an ssd that would be great with this....I just purchased one of these guys to test and see if we can use an external hdd(with external power supply)formatted in fat32 with this device and the Wii U. I will report on it as soon as I get it.
God bless this dying ass country.The downside is that shipping is pretty expensive. I paid 140$ CAD for the sucker including shipping.
This is unlikely to solve any of the SD slot's problems including limited size and loading speed. It says it is limited to 32GB (SDHC spec) which might not be a hard limit but I wouldn't get my hopes up
As for the loading speed issue, I've done some tests. The first was if SD as a format has some inherent reduced ability to transfer multiple small files at once. To do this I copied the entire directory of Star Fox Zero to both a FAT32 64k cluster formatted SD card via USB2.0 adapter, and a FAT32 64k cluster formatted USB2.0 HDD, then transferred the files back to my PC to judge the read speed. Both SD and USB were nearly identical in this case, taking 2 min 23 seconds and 2 min 22 seconds respectively
The conclusion that I'm drawing is one of two possibilities: 1) the SD redirect code in loadiine causes substantial file access delay because of the overhead, 2) the SD card slot itself is simply garbage
The latter seems unlikely since the eMMC itself is on the same SDIO bus, which means SD card access should be nearly as fast as the system's NAND. (limited by your card's specifications)
Regardless, in either case, this could only possibly slow down loading speeds, and it almost certainly won't increase storage space beyond 32GB
This is unlikely to solve any of the SD slot's problems including limited size and loading speed. It says it is limited to 32GB (SDHC spec) which might not be a hard limit but I wouldn't get my hopes up
As for the loading speed issue, I've done some tests. The first was if SD as a format has some inherent reduced ability to transfer multiple small files at once. To do this I copied the entire directory of Star Fox Zero to both a FAT32 64k cluster formatted SD card via USB2.0 adapter, and a FAT32 64k cluster formatted USB2.0 HDD, then transferred the files back to my PC to judge the read speed. Both SD and USB were nearly identical in this case, taking 2 min 23 seconds and 2 min 22 seconds respectively
The conclusion that I'm drawing is one of two possibilities: 1) the SD redirect code in loadiine causes substantial file access delay because of the overhead, 2) the SD card slot itself is simply garbage
The latter seems unlikely since the eMMC itself is on the same SDIO bus, which means SD card access should be nearly as fast as the system's NAND. (limited by your card's specifications)
Regardless, in either case, this could only possibly slow down loading speeds, and it almost certainly won't increase storage space beyond 32GB