Hello, I am running a Toshiba "Canvio Ready" 1TB hard drive.
It seems to have decent power consumption, it's not as bad as other drives I've tried. However, it can't get by on it's own.
Therefore I have a Y-Cable plugged into both ports of the Wii.
The problem is, I now want to plug in a Tony Hawk Skateboard receiver, and I'm having some trouble.
I tried putting a USB hub into the second USB port, then put the hard drive data cable in the first.
Then I put the power part of the Y-Cable into the USB hub.
On the first USB hub I tried, this didn't work at all and the Hard Drive couldn't power on. On the second USB hub, it worked fine. Then about 2 hours later the Wii crashed and wiped the drive (I had a backup).
What's the best way to do this?
I'm having a really hard time finding a power source to power the power end of the Y-Cable, so that the second port is free. I fried one hard drive by plugging it into a phone charger in an outlet and the hard drive smelled like burning and didn't work. I had a similar experience with a powered USB hub. I've even tried powering on a laptop just to plug the power end of the Y-Cable into a USB on that laptop and that didn't give enough power to power up the drive.
I don't want to depend on a second wall outlet to run the Wii if possible, I don't want an externally powered hard drive.
It seems to have decent power consumption, it's not as bad as other drives I've tried. However, it can't get by on it's own.
Therefore I have a Y-Cable plugged into both ports of the Wii.
The problem is, I now want to plug in a Tony Hawk Skateboard receiver, and I'm having some trouble.
I tried putting a USB hub into the second USB port, then put the hard drive data cable in the first.
Then I put the power part of the Y-Cable into the USB hub.
On the first USB hub I tried, this didn't work at all and the Hard Drive couldn't power on. On the second USB hub, it worked fine. Then about 2 hours later the Wii crashed and wiped the drive (I had a backup).
What's the best way to do this?
I'm having a really hard time finding a power source to power the power end of the Y-Cable, so that the second port is free. I fried one hard drive by plugging it into a phone charger in an outlet and the hard drive smelled like burning and didn't work. I had a similar experience with a powered USB hub. I've even tried powering on a laptop just to plug the power end of the Y-Cable into a USB on that laptop and that didn't give enough power to power up the drive.
I don't want to depend on a second wall outlet to run the Wii if possible, I don't want an externally powered hard drive.