Cheap, Reliable External HD for Wii U

subywagon on 19/04/2017 - 00:54

As per title, I'm chasing a cheap, reliable external HD for use on a Wii U. 1TB should be enough.

Looking forwards to your recommendations!

Thanks

Comments

supnigs super skids on 19/04/2017 - 01:33

Are you pirating games?
- subywagon on 19/04/2017 - 02:04
  
  Nah. I bought a digital version of Minecraft for my daughter ages ago and didn't have enough room on the SD card to download it.
  - Sage on 19/04/2017 - 02:16
    
    Is it really for just 1 game?
    You know you could upgrade the SD card for less than getting a hard drive.
    Have you gone through and deleted junk data? You could make a backup of all the files and pop the SD back in empty and download the game.
    It's only 400mb, 1tb is overkill.
    - subywagon on 19/04/2017 - 03:05
      
      Ah ok. I thought it was larger. I haven't checked it for months. I'll use the hard drive for a Nintendo Switch when I get her one for Christmas too.
kawinuyo on 19/04/2017 - 08:21

+1

I use a USB rather than a hard drive for mine, I use a 128 gig one, I would keep an eye out for deals like https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/203533
rompastompa on 19/04/2017 - 09:57

Just a heads up. Nintendo do not recommend flash media for external storage.

I'm like, pfft, my low usage isn't going to kill a flash drive. So I put an 8GB Kingston in. Probably a year later and it corrupted. Luckily, the save files were still accessible and it was just the game installs that were corrupted.

I now have an old platter external as storage (more likely to fail in my opinion)

My point is, back up your save data whatever media you use.