Hardware USB On to Go+ Harddrive - HANDHELD Experience Thread

[The Real Jdbye]

It's your choice to do connect drives like that to the usb c port. I don't care and it does make sense

Yeah but it wouldn't work, there's no point in trying. 3.5" drives don't get power from USB. In fact I'm pretty sure they don't even run on 5V.

 

[Reecey]

Thanks dude.

Be careful what Velcro you use you need two long strips one at the top of the drive one at the bottom but choose wisely I used some extra strong textile Velcro for security reasons so it would not fall of but now I can’t split the Velcro apart from the drive, it’s that strong without putting a lot of pressure on the back cover which I think it might crack. Yes just don’t use something to over the top like I did.

 

[WiiuGold]

I'm using a 8TB HDD. For dock mode. Handheld I use a 5TB HDD 2.5.

 

[coffinbirth]

Yeah but it wouldn't work, there's no point in trying. 3.5" drives don't get power from USB. In fact I'm pretty sure they don't even run on 5V.

I tried to explain this to him once already, but he's not even remotely close to understanding any of this.

 

[kumikochan]

I tried to explain this to him once already, but he's not even remotely close to understanding any of this.

I do and like i already said do whatever you want i don't care. No need to keep bringing me up in this thread. The only drive i would consider safe is flash and nothing else and that's going to stay like that. You're not gonna change my opinion about that or anyone else. Like i said, do whatever you want, i don't care

 

[Haterade]

So with the news of the SX OS having the abillity to load harddrives via USB docked. It seems it is also possible to load up harddrives via USB OTG in handheld mode.

Few things we need to find out now are :

- What is the limit on harddrives for using this feature Confirmed reports for 1TB. Will 4 or 5TB work however for example? You won't be able to fill it, but good to be future proof.
- Any title limit on the switch? I have 450 games waiting to be installed (heard reports of users having 600 titles installed and were fine)
- What effects will it have on power consumption using such harddrive
- Is there an USB OTG cable that somehow features the support for charging and playing at the same time
- What is the best way to use these harddrives to our switch? USB OTG cables can be finicky and break easily

I would assume a 2.5 HD would be best suited for the job. Cheapest one I could find is WD Elements Portable USB 3.0 4TB for 100 Euro.
Personally had bad experiences with seagate and there are several reports with seagate having the highest failure rates. So make your own choice.

What also is important is how big, thick and or heavy these HDD's are. We need to find the smallest, thinnest and lightest HDD's out there so we can stick em to our handheld mode switch with some elastics and not notice it.

We will need real life results here with hardware, please report your findings and suggestions here.

I have a WD 4tb external on mine and it works just fine

 

[syfer]

How can 8tb work on your when my 4tb game drive does not work at all. In fact I will go as far as saying that anything above 2tb will not work 100% as the format needs to exformat and MBR and MBR only stops at 2tb before you need to create another protection on the hard drive. With a dock that has 3 USB you could hook up all 3 i think but will be testing this with 2 hard drives one 2tb one and one 1 terabyte one.