External Hard Drive for consoles, is it a problem?

[Cheebee]

dahuman said:

Cheebee said:
I think an external HDD is fine. I actually prefer that over a built-in one.
Now if only my WiiU would consistently regognize it! Quite a few times, it just doesn't recognize my 500GB external HDD, USB Y-cable and all. :(

plug the power end into a phone charger and see how that works, Wii U's USB ports have shit for power.

Thought of that myself, but makes no difference. Sometimes it works flawlessly and recognizes the HDD immediately, a lot of time it just doesn't. :/ I did notice that my WiiU recognizes the HDD more frequently when it's plugged into the front USB-ports, over the ports in the console's back.