big ol'e fat 500 gig external hardrive from the mid-late 2000's lol

i have the 32gb model with a 16gb flashdrive. i dont download much, so its enough to last. i will probably upgrade the Switch with a 32gb microSD though

do you have any issue with flash drive? can you please share the model of the flash drive you use please? i would like to get one too

Nothing, the only thing i bought digitally was indie & Virtual Console titles.

Lube.

I go for physical since storage is really limited for the Wii U :/

That said, I do have an SD card as extra storage

I've got a 2TB external hooked up to mine. Even though I'm getting a Switch I am still going to keep filling up my external on Wii U with Virtual console titles and other interesting Indie games from time to time.

2TB USB-HDD

Few years back, I lost my data from a USB stick: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=203911

Nintendo doesn't recomment you use one (copy from that thread):

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/latam/en/systems/wiiu/system_external_storage.jsp?menu=general_info&submenu=wup-external-usb-storage

Can I use a Flash/Thumb drive as an external storage device?

• Because these devices have a limited number of rewrites and are not suited to long-term storage of important game data, we do not recommend the use of Flash/thumb drives as an external storage device solution. For best results, we recommend using a hard drive with its own power supply that connects to the Wii U via the USB port on the console.
• Commercial Flash memory has a limit on the number of times you can write over it and we don't recommend flash memory devices for long-term storage of important save data.

A 32 gb usb stick. Combined with the 32 gbs of the deluxe version, that's more than enough to satisfy me.