Hardware Wii U keeps saying USB storage device disconnected

[Princess420]

I got a Y cable yesterday to use my hitachi 500GB HDD with my Wii U. I was able to transfer everything off my USB to the HDD, and was able to install some games as well. After installing games and testing them out, the Wii U keeps telling me that the drive has been disconnected. I do have sleep mode disabled on the drive via Wii U settings. I have tried the front & back USB ports, as well as plugging one of the ends of the Y cable into a phone charger. The drive isn’t in a full enclosure, I’m using a SATA to USB cable (which works fine by itself with my other external drives) and the end of the SATA cable is plugged into the female port on the Y cable. It seems like no matter what I do, the Wii U will tell me that the drive has been disconnected. I do have a Toshiba drive that’s dedicated to the OG wii, but I can backup the data and format it if need be to use it with the Wii U. I’m new to using HDDs with the Wii U, I’d love to get this up and working. Any suggestions?

 

[godreborn]

hdd might be going to sleep. there's a hidden menu to prevent this from happening. I forgot the button combo, you'd have to google it, but it's a hidden hdd menu that you access from system settings' data management.

 

[Ettino]

SSD prices are pretty decent these days. Sure you probably need an enclosure but you won't have to mess around with the Y cable anymore. It'll last the same as normal HDD, eg a long ass time.

Just another option to keep in mind. Seeing that Wii U can be picky when it comes to external HDD.

 

[Hayato213]

SSD prices are pretty decent these days. Sure you probably need an enclosure but you won't have to mess around with the Y cable anymore. It'll last the same as normal HDD, eg a long ass time.

Just another option to keep in mind. Seeing that Wii U can be picky when it comes to external HDD.

Waste of money wasting a SSD on a wii u

 

[Sypherone]

You may check and set (if by the drive supported) the power management and spin- down settings on Linux with hdparm. In case its a SCSI drive there exists sdparm.

 

[Ettino]

Waste of money wasting a SSD on a wii u

It's like 45 bucks for a sata III 2.5" 512gb. Sure you won't get any speed boost, but for that price I wouldn't call it waste if it works. But whatever, I spent way more on fast cars, cheap booze, loose women and freakin' Canucks tickets.