Expanding Wii U mem. capacity: USB pen, USB HDD, SD card ?

[Viper1]

FrancisNobleman said:

Viper1 said:

Prices are going to fluctaute based on the read and write speed regardless of it being a USB drive or SD card.     Plus branding.
SD will likely be more epensive as it has to use higher density chips compared to a flash druve that can stack chips together to achieve the same capacity.

 

32 GB is fine given that core gamers that want more will just buy an external drive for it.

 

It won't slow the system down because the OS is not stored on that drive.     Does your Wii slow down when the internal memory gets full?

Yes, I've got it running the homebrew channel, and when the HDD reached about 300GB of data it would take a while for it to load everything from the disc.

 

Also 64 GB is bigger than 64 Gb??? bytes and bits, dafuq...

Overall you're saying that HDD, usb pens and SD Cards can have about the same speeds ?

I asked about internel memory, not HDD.  But you're also talking about HomeBrew channel stuff which is why you're experiencing that problem.

The Wii U OS won't slow down just because an external HDD has reached capacity.  Data transfers will be a problem, yes, but not OS usage itself.   No different than having an external HDD on yrou PC reach capacity.  Doesn't affect the speed of your OS, just data transfers to and from that HDD.

64 GB is indeed much bigger than 64 Gb.   1 GB = 8 Gb.   So 64 GB would = 512 Gb.  Or 64 Gb would = 8 GB.

Can they have the same speeds?    They can but that all depends on a lot of things.  Way too many to list here.