Wii U: Create your own y-cable for bus powered USB hard drives

[CityOfNoobs]

wfz said:

CityOfNoobs said:

wfz said:
How can I tell if my HDD needs to be Y split or not?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00834SJSK/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

Got this in the mail today, plugged it in, formatted it, and now I am currently transferring my downloaded data to it. Everyting seems to be working fine. How do I know if it's incompatible? When I try to play a game?

The thing is not that it wont be compatible, it is that you cannot gurantee that the drive is getting enough power. It could work just fine for most things but fail to do so while playing games (due ot the higher amount of power needed) , or it could just work fine all together, there is really no way to know except to try it and see. The device will certainly work in  all situations it is designed to if you use a Y cable though. 

Actually I have the 1TB version of the drive you linked, and I had to purchase a ycable to get the drive to work with my 360 but it worked fine with my PC (I assume this is becuase the USB ports on the 360 do not give as much current as the ones on my PC)

Hrm.. well.. it appears to be working fine. Let's say I start playing NSMBU in a few minutes, how will I be able to tell if the HDD stops working? Will it automatically throw an error sign, or what? I don't really expect you to know, but I'm just rather confused.

Well if you are running the game off of the HDD and it is not getting enough power it would likely just crash and or start lagging really badly. While I don't know what happens with the Wii U exactly (mine wont be here until next Tuesday ) that is what happened when I attempted to play HD videos off of mine on my 360 before getting a Ycable, now they play fine without freezing or lagging.

Edit - How do I delete posts? I accidently replied at first without quoting you.