Wii U external HDDS

[famousringo]

superchunk 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.

So to fully understand this.

Once you have a HDD, absolutely nothing is allowed to be saved on the internal memory? I'd rather have game saves on the internal memory as well with full games on the HDD.

It's not exactly that nothing is allowed to be saved to internal memory. More accurate to say the save data is chained to the game download. If the game is on internal, so is its save data. If the game is on USB, so is the save data. Downloaded games seem to default to internal storage as long as there's room there for them, and I haven't had the eShop give me the choice of downloading to USB yet because I've kept enough free space on internal.

When you select a game in the data management interface, it shows you all files for that game (typically the main install, the save file, and an update file) and gives you the option to transfer all files or delete. If you select a particular file, like the save data, the transfer option disappears and only the delete option remains. If there's a way to pick and choose which data gets transferred, I haven't found it.

This is likely a design decision made by Nintendo to prevent awkward questions. Like if it finds a save file on internal and a save file on USB, which one does it load when the game launches? Personally, I'm with you and I'd rather Nintendo had simply chosen to keep all save data on internal while providing an archive feature for USB devices.