My Seagate Expansion 2TB is working great!
Seagate Expansion seems to be the winner here. I'll go with that then.
That's what I bought and aside from one instance it works fine. It does make a beeping sound though so I bought the Y cable in hopes of making it more stable.Asked a friend to pick up a hard drive and got a Toshiba Canvio 500gig. Is that the one in the op? Cause it says I need a Y cable but its been' working fine without one. Do I still get one just to be safe or something?
Got a y-cable for my hard drive and formated the drive. Two seconds into copying Nano Assault Neo, I get my second ever Wii U hard lock.
WTF Nintendo.
Nothing appears to be messed up after pulling the plug, and the transfer worked the second time, but freezing up while moving save files is not an okay thing to do!
I wouldn't do this, depending on how much the disk and hard drives vibrate. But maybe they'll be okay?
Wii U vents are on the right side (Wii U logo) not the top.
do you believe if we will ever get a "nintendo themed" hdd?
i want to buy one but i just have a hunch that some day nintendo will release one..
So is it possible to install a Wii U disc based game onto my USB drive - just for loading times etc. I couldn't find any options so at the moment I'm not entirely sure what I can put on it - apart from e-shop stuff I guess?
What's the smallest form factor > 500gb drive? The one posted on the previous page just isn't appealing being as tall as the WiiU itself.
You can use the Seagate Expansion portable. Which is the drive I use, just get a Y-Cable for it.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00834SK5W/?tag=neogaf0e-20
It should be noted in the OP that there are 2 lines of Seagate Expansion drives. A portable line and a desktop line. The portable line uses laptop drives, and the desktop one uses desktop drives. It should also be noted that the desktop line has a separate power plug, while the portable line doesn't and will need a Y-Cable.
I noted the OP has the 1tb Seagate Expansion drive up there, but it's the desktop model. I can confirm that the portable model works with the Wii-U as well as long as you have a Y-cable.
My hard drive finally arrived today.
My WiiU formatted it and gas a little USB logo in the bottom left corner of the pad menu so I know it's reading it, but my WiiU has hard locked about 4 times since plugging it in.
Does that mean I need a y cable? :/
Despite the vague post I'll go ahead and assume you have a USB powered portable drive which will indeed require a Y cable.
Will this Y cable work?
It would plug directly into the hard drive and I'd be able to plug in 2 usb ports...
Yes that will work if your hard drive is a USB 3.0 one.
I have a 500 GB HDD in an enclosure that I swapped out from a laptop attached to my Wii U using a USB 2.0 Y cable. I had to format it since it was previously in NTFS, but after that it seems to be downloading and playing just fine.
Got myself NSMBU, Nano Assault Neo, Little Inferno, Trine 2, ZombiU, and Scribblenauts Unlimited all packed in there. Most of the games seem to be loading faster than the Nintendoland that I got in the Deluxe package too.
UK GAF:
What HDD have you got hooked up to your Wii U?
The ones Nintendo recommends on their site I cannot find...which is weird...
I'm in the market for a 500GB plug and play, so this may due for me.The 500GB Maxtor harddrive I had lying around works a treat. Excellent!
Before giving up I'd try and erase the partition in windows disk management first and then see if it shows up.LaCie Minimus 2TB
Sadly doesn't work. I've read somewhere that other LaCie drives doesn't work either. I just paid 150$ for nothing.
The WiiU just doesn't see it at all.
So there are External HDDs that do work with Wii U despite being supplied by only one USB.I got one of these: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008R7FC74/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Really small, no external power supply and 1 usb cable. Works great.
PUt me down as another satisfied customer.My Seagate Expansion 2TB is working great!
ïve got a 32GB USB-stick lying around...will this also work?
Watch out for that BW - some USB flash drives are ultra slow. Here are my impressions.ïve got a 32GB USB-stick lying around...will this also work?
Worked perfectly for 2 weeks now I get errors once in a while. Really strange.So there are External HDDs that do work with Wii U despite being supplied by only one USB.
Any care to make a list of them?
It works, I think, but they don't recommend you use it for storing full games because of the write limits on flash storage.
Watch out for that BW - some USB flash drives are ultra slow. Here are my impressions.
Before giving up I'd try and erase the partition in windows disk management first and then see if it shows up.
This is assuming you have enough power going to it, either from an outlet or through a y cable.
Folks have been able to use other units from that line with a Y cord (US version.). I'm guessing it will probably work that way.
You need this, I believe.So I have an unopened 500GB Adata Hv610 Usb 3.0 HDD a friend gave me a couple months ago. It comes with its original USB cable which btw has a weird-looking terminal end (the upper one) I'm not a tech-savvy by any means so I don't know what's the name or how it works but if I buy a Y cable for it I'm good to go? Or does it have to have the same ends though it has an ordinary usb logo on it (the hdd)?
Any help would be highly appreciated