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[nintendo3DS]

What would be better for the Wii U, a hard drive or SD card. I prefer hard drives, but I don't see any slot where you can just take in and take out the hard drive, like the Xbox 360. I don't want to go through the trouble like what you have to do with PS3 to get more memory. So, should I go with SD card or hard drive?

Edited by nintendo3DS, 17 September 2012 - 02:40 PM.

[Kiki Neko-Chan]

What would be better for the Wii U, a hard drive or SD card. I prefer hard drives, but I don't see any slot where you can just take in and take out the hard drive, like the Xbox 360. I don't want to go through the trouble like what you have to do with PS3 to get more memory. So, should I go with SD card or hard drive?

It depends. Do you want a lot of extra memory or just enough?

[nintendo3DS]

It depends. Do you want a lot of extra memory or just enough?

A lot. I'm going to be buying several Wii U games over its lifetime and probably downloading demos, buying eshop titles and whatnot.

[Zonark]

All u do is get a hdd encloser for 5 bucks and plug in via usb

[Foot]

I'm getting the 32 GB only for DLC (and that sleek black color, lol), I don't like downloading games over retail because u can't return the game if u don't like it, so 32 is kinda okay for me, unless DLC packs become like, 1 GB each instead of only mb

Edited by Heyheyharold, 17 September 2012 - 02:48 PM.

[Usman Mohammad]

What would be better for the Wii U, a hard drive or SD card. I prefer hard drives, but I don't see any slot where you can just take in and take out the hard drive, like the Xbox 360. I don't want to go through the trouble like what you have to do with PS3 to get more memory. So, should I go with SD card or hard drive?

External Hard drive over USB. You'll probably get near the USB 2.0 bandwith limit with a hard drive.

[crazyman03]

I want the black wii u but it only comes in 32 gigs
I want the 8 and just use an sd card but that isn't an option does any one else have the same problem?

[nintendo3DS]

External Hard drive over USB. You'll probably get near the USB 2.0 bandwith limit with a hard drive.

So an external hard drive that goes into a USB port? What type/kind do you suggest?

[Tricky Sonic]

External is what I'd recommend if you plan on downloading retail games

[nintendo3DS]

External is what I'd recommend if you plan on downloading retail games

So if I plugged this into my Wii U, it would add 500GB? (asides from the 32GB that's in there internally) http://www.walmart.c...-Drive/15572014

Edited by nintendo3DS, 17 September 2012 - 03:26 PM.

[Socalmuscle]

So if I plugged this into my Wii U, it would add 500GB? (asides from the 32GB that's in there internally) http://www.walmart.c...-Drive/15572014

Yes.

[dmann]

dude, I already have a 1 tb hard drive ready for my wii u

[nintendo3DS]

dude, I already have a 1 tb hard drive ready for my wii u

How much more is that than GBs? Also, did you get it from bestbuy?

[Jeenaud]

How much more is that than GBs? Also, did you get it from bestbuy?

1tb = 1024gbs

[milky105p]

I just wonder how fast exactly will an external HDD run full downloaded games. i hope it doesnt create long load times or laggy gameplay or anything like that! im suprised they arent usb 3.0 ports. Or even just using my flash drive for now until I get a lot more games later on when i need the space, if it can read the memory fast enough to play the games as it would an internal hdd

[JD2995]

Reggie says that the Wii U supports external hard drives with 3TB of memory.

[MacroPlanet]

Perfect! I was not aware that we could use an external source for storage.

[Spleenzorio]

I just wonder how fast exactly will an external HDD run full downloaded games. i hope it doesnt create long load times or laggy gameplay or anything like that! im suprised they arent usb 3.0 ports. Or even just using my flash drive for now until I get a lot more games later on when i need the space, if it can read the memory fast enough to play the games as it would an internal hdd

Depends on how quick the transfer rate is on the drive.

[milky105p]

Depends on how quick the transfer rate is on the drive.

im really thinking of getting the biggest SD card i can find and just put it in there and not worry about an HDD. i wonder if that would be a faster transfer rate than a usb drive

[Spleenzorio]

im really thinking of getting the biggest SD card i can find and just put it in there and not worry about an HDD. i wonder if that would be a faster transfer rate than a usb drive

Pulling up a random external drive to compare it to an SD card, the drive has a transfer rate of 480 Mbits/sec while SD cards can have a max of only 14.6 Mbits/sec. SD cards usually cost about a dollar per GB, of course the higher quality ones usually pay a bit more. But honestly for the price you might spend on a 32GB SD card, spend about 20 bucks more and you can get yourself a 500GB external drive. Sure you probaby don't need that much for a console, but you can use it for other things like movies and stuff. Personally I'm saving for a 2TB one for about 120 bucks just to store all my junk plus keep in the Wii U when I don't need it on my PC.

Edited by Spleenzorio, 17 September 2012 - 08:02 PM.