So does the Wii U provide less power to the USB ports than the original Wii?
I have a 320GB Western Digital HDD that works perfectly with the Wii to play ripped games, but all it does is make periodic clicking sounds on the Wii U and is never recognized.
I guess I'll buy a y-cable to see if that fixes it. :/
I believe the term is "Meat Locker"
Anyhow, I'm waiting for some Y cables from monoprice. The drive is a 500 GB 2.5 Toshiba that only has a single output for a 2.0 USB mini B. I'll report my findings.
So, what would be the best Y-cable USB cable that I could buy for less than $10 when all is said and done? (incl. shipping and does Amazon charge tax in Texas yet?)
Excellent!That's the exact one I use. I needed the extra power, this should do it
I just got two from Monoprice for under $5 with shipping included. My Toshiba is singing.
So are 109 GB of that already occupied by other files or is that the true capacity (did it wipe clean before recognizing in the system)? Also is it plugged into a wall or USB-powered?
I'm curious to see if people can devise ways to format it before hand to be partitioned for Wii U and non-Wii U stuff
So would SD cards work for digital downloads or it exactly the same as Wii where you can't launch anything off the card?
For Canadians : Western Digital My Passport 1 TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive for 79$
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B006Y5UV4A/
I know 1 To is too much, but its 4$ more than the 500go.
And available in different colors.
And use the USB3 to power on, so only one cable.
Are you positive that will work?
Are you positive that will work?
bleh this is terrible. damn you, nintendo.I have an older USB 2.0 WD Passport, and it is going to need a y-cable to work. I assume that one will too.
I also have another hard drive enclosure I tested today with a laptop hard drive. It came with a y-cable, and it works on the Wii with one connection but needs two connections for the Wii U. :<
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002KC55OM/
This is the one I want to use on the Wii U. It works on the Wii for homebrew, but I am ordering a y-cable to try with the Wii U. It doesn't work with just one USB port.
That's the exact one I use. I needed the extra power, this should do it
Based on the price and your praise, I have just ordered this HDD. I'll need to buy a Y-Cable and should be good to go.Tested the HDD without the Y Cable and it did work for a bit, but when trying to move data from the HDD back to the console it failed on 2 attempts. Once I plugged the Y Adapter back in it worked without any issue.
In testing, I did find sending a 226mb file (my Nintendo Land data) from the console to the HDD took about 20 seconds. Moving the same file back to the system memory took up to 1 minute. Not sure if that is normal or not. So in short, if you have a self powered USB HDD, you do need a Y Adapter since the single USB port does not give it enough juice. In my test without the Y adapter it did recoginize the hdd and was able to write to it, but reading from it and sending data to the console it would fail.
For $69.99 *if you act fast* a 1 tb (931 gb) usable for the Wii U is pretty damn good deal and the drive looks sleek and small and compliments the Black Wii U.
Here is the link again for the HDD.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Seagate...iving_Day_Sale_2012_Computers_70568&cp=1&lp=2
Oh and I am using a USB 2.0 Y-Cable, so not sure if a 3.0 would do anything differently being that the Wii U uses 2.0 instead of 3.0.
Probably better to get this, actually. Unless you'd rather use a Y cable than an extra power plug of course, but it was tested in an earlier post and seems to work fine.Here is the link again for the HDD.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Seagate...iving_Day_Sale_2012_Computers_70568&cp=1&lp=2
Oh and I am using a USB 2.0 Y-Cable, so not sure if a 3.0 would do anything differently being that the Wii U uses 2.0 instead of 3.0.
Probably better to get this, actually. Unless you'd rather use a Y cable than an extra power plug of course, but it was tested in an earlier post and seems to work fine.
Probably better to get this, actually. Unless you'd rather use a Y cable than an extra power plug of course, but it was tested in an earlier post and seems to work fine.
Canceled my Best Buy order and did this instead. The extra space for $10 more and no need for a Y-Cable sounds more appealing.
So I got a 2 TB drive because it was $58 on Black Friday and the 1 TB drive was being sold for the same price so yeah. The 2 TB drive will obviously never be filled all the way so I was wondering, after formatting for the Wii U, can I still use the TB drive for my PC?
Nope, you cannot partition the drive or anything. Once you connect it to the Wii U it uses all of the space for itself and cannot be shared with your PC at all.
So I got a 2 TB drive because it was $58 on Black Friday and the 1 TB drive was being sold for the same price so yeah. The 2 TB drive will obviously never be filled all the way so I was wondering, after formatting for the Wii U, can I still use the TB drive for my PC?
Jeez. I think I'll just look for a smaller drive for my Wii U then.
Given HDD prices it really does become a question of "why not?", and it's really hard to answer when the price difference is small and eliminates the possibility of actually running out. If it were USB 3.0 and we were seeing SSD externals that'd probably be the best reason to go smaller, though even then it'd seem good to go with a large 1 or 2 TB drive for now, then if you still don't have that filled up years later switch to an SSD external with that older one being made to be a computer external.If you paid 65 bucks for it who cares.
I'm trying to use a Toshiba Canvio 3.0 Plus Hard Drive, and I keep getting a message when I try to format it that says it has write protection, and that I need to remove it before it will allow me to format it for my Wii U. Anyone here know how to do that? I'm using a y-cable, so it shouldn't be a power issue (it wouldn't even allow me to try to reformat it before using the y-cable).