Wii U external HDDS

[famousringo]

UncleScrooge said:

famousringo said:
I've got an old 500GB desktop-class LaCie with its own power supply. Works well so far. Seems faster than loading from disc, perhaps not as fast as internal storage.

One annoyance is that transferring games to the HD is all or nothing. I'd like to keep the irreplaceable save data on the console itself (I don't entirely trust this old drive), but I don't seem to have any choice but to transfer it to USB storage along with all the other game data.

What games do you have on your HDD? I'm thinking about downloading Monster Hunter because I'm too lazy to swap discs all the time. But apparently the internal storage is quite slow (and a lot of HDD's are too) so I'm afraid loading times will actually be worse.

I have a hard time believing any kind of flash or hard drive could be slower than an optical disc of the same generation. I'm not really inclined to buy the same game on disc and download to do an apples to apples comparison of which loads faster, but I might do some testing and see if that gives us an idea. Certainly I can at least test loading times between internal storage and an external hard drive.

Oh, and I do currently have Monster Hunter on internal, so it should make a great test case, especially with all those load screens.