Just trying to find out if it is possible to have multiple (2) USB HDD's connected to the WiiU at once, each storing different WiiU games. For e.g., games A-M stored on drive 1, N-Z stored on drive 2. Hard to find a definitive answer online.
Technically yes, but you probably don't need to. The Wii U has a limit to how many titles it will show on the home menu - I'm not sure what the limit is, I think it may be 300 like the 3DS but I'm not sure. I know I've hit it though.
It also won't utilize anything above 2TB, so if you have a 4TB drive it will work but it will only allow you to use 2TB of it. And 2TB is plenty of storage to keep anything worth playing on the Wii U. You'll hit the title limit before you fill the drive.
You're better off getting one hard drive to dedicate to Wii U games, and a separate hard drive for Wii / Gamecube / Emulated games. And if you're going to use two drives, you're better off finding big "desktop" external hard drives that use a separate power cable, rather than the ones that try to power off the USB ports using Y cables. You can use UStealth on your Wii hard drive to stop the Wii U menu from nagging you about the hard drive needing to be formatted.
That's the best setup I've come up with so far.
Actually the answer for his question is no. He wants two hdds both playing Wii U games. You can have one hdd playing Wii U and one playing original Wii (with ustealth) but you cannot have two hdds for Wii U at the same time.
He might not have have near 300 games and two small hdds he wants hooked up we don't really know he didn't say. But he did say he wants them both to be for Wii U so that's a no.
That's not true, the Wii U can handle two storage devices. You can also move and copy data between them (but they will only be compatible with the Wii U you formatted them on, you can't use them with a different console without wiping them).
I said he "probably" didn't need to because with hard drive prices these days you can easily find a 4TB external drive for around $100, maybe less. 3TB and 2TB drives are even cheaper. Unless he has some older smaller drives laying around he plans on using, there's really no reason to have more than one "Wii U"-formatted drive attached to the Wii U.
Alternatively, if he was really determined to break the title limit he could use Rednand and switch between hard drives, but that's really not recommended and unnecessary.
I was planning on loading pretty much every game ever released onto the console after plugging those little drives in it, and then never messing with it again.
To my knowledge - no. Possibly with Linux. I have successfully cloned weird custom-format drives using twin-slot USB drive docks with an off-line clone feature. This enables drive cloning through the dock with only power connected, no PC required. The off-line clone process is a bit quirky in that the target drive MUST be bigger than the source drive to make it work eg 1.5TB source > 2TB destination regardless of how much information is on the drive!Can I make a FULL copy on a PC of my Wii U HDD?
To my knowledge - no. Possibly with Linux. I have successfully cloned weird custom-format drives using twin-slot USB drive docks with an off-line clone feature. This enables drive cloning through the dock with only power connected, no PC required. The off-line clone process is a bit quirky in that the target drive MUST be bigger than the source drive to make it work eg 1.5TB source > 2TB destination regardless of how much information is on the drive!View attachment 160382
You don't have to have 2 hard drives. There is a wd fat32 formatting software that will allow you to format even a hard drive larger than 2tb to fat32. I have a single partition extenal 4tb western hard formatted for fat32. It has to be wd and I recommend getting a 3.5 size external hard drive. Now beyond 4tb I am unsure.Just trying to find out if it is possible to have multiple (2) USB HDD's connected to the WiiU at once, each storing different WiiU games. For e.g., games A-M stored on drive 1, N-Z stored on drive 2. Hard to find a definitive answer online.
Maybe Clonezilla can do that. Create a bootable Clonezilla flash drive and make a backup of the HDD.Can I make a FULL copy on a PC of my Wii U HDD?
Hi Vrmax, do you mean that if I format a 4TB hdd to fat32 and my Wii U will recognize whole 4TB space instead of 2TB?You don't have to have 2 hard drives. There is a wd fat32 formatting software that will allow you to format even a hard drive larger than 2tb to fat32. I have a single partition extenal 4tb western hard formatted for fat32. It has to be wd and I recommend getting a 3.5 size external hard drive. Now beyond 4tb I am unsure.