Do Wii U games perform better on HDD than disc?

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cusman said:

Mr Khan said:
I think there would be hard facts on the Wii U's faux-Blu-Ray drive's read speed and data transfer speed versus the public knowledge of bus speed for a USB HDD (the internal SSD on Wii U would be significantly faster, but its size, of course, is limited for retail games)

Can't say m'self.

I can only confirm that the internal "cheap flash" storage of the Wii U is slower than the worse USB 2.0 HDD you can attach to it.

I think technically the USB 2.0 HDD is faster than the Wii U "Blu-Ray" disk, but if you try a game like Lego City Undercover (which has the longest loading of any Wii U game), than I personally don't feel the HDD loads any faster.

I suppose this is similar to how the PS3 games on SSD don't run noticeably faster than running the same game from Blu-Ray disk... even though the SSD is 100s of times faster than the Blu-Ray. It must have to do with how the game is coded/optimized to read from a slow Blu-Ray than a wide variety of speeds available on the HDD.

Bottom line, putting game to HDD is more about convenience than performance.

Thanks C-Money.  You've been infinitely helpful.  Guess I'll stick to retail instead of putting all of my eggs in one basket.