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Red4ADevil on 12 March 2009

with content slowly building up on the wii sooner or later we will need bigger space esp with VC.



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Phoenix_Wiight on 12 March 2009

id prolly get a 5-10 gig one at most. this is good news tho. i hope they announce brawl DLC soon, if ever



Viper1 on 12 March 2009
Daileon said:
Yes, this. My post was kinda confusing, but you understood.

The sizes are "weird" because the "conventional" HDs are 20, 30, 40, 60, 80GB... I've never seen a HD of 32 or 64 GB, unless they're SSDs or some kind of flash memory.

Technically, even those that are 20, 30, 40, 60, etc...are not what is listed. Those are marketing numbers because they are easier for consumers to grasp. The actual numbers are slightly smaller. The actual binary volume of a 100 GB HDD is 93 GiB. RAM is the same by the way.

SSD's have mostly been marketed using the proper binary number system (multiples of 2) which is why you see sizes such as 32 and 64 GB.



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Bobbuffalo on 12 March 2009

Pardon my ignorance but what are SSDs?



Viper1 on 12 March 2009
Bobbuffalo said:
Pardon my ignorance but what are SSDs? <.<

Solid State Drive.

 

It's a new type of hard drive that doesn't use a magenetic mechanical drive but works closer to RAM or memory cards.

 



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Bobbuffalo on 12 March 2009

oh! thanks ^_^



Shanobi on 12 March 2009

Well, I remember somebody from Nintendo saying fairly recently that they have a new storage device answer on the way, for those who were complaining about the current situation.

So well see, but I wouldn't doubt it at all if we get a hard drive this year.



 

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Bobbuffalo on 12 March 2009

@Shanobi - I think that was about the soon-to-come option to download directly to the SD cards



Viper1 on 12 March 2009

To be honest, I highly doubt this rumor or that a USB HDD is on the way at all. The most logical storage solution would be SDHC. The Wii already has a SD card slot and is only a firmware update away from allowing SDHC cards which have a maximum capacity of 2 TB's and faster transfer rates over SD.

Current SDHC cards max out at 32 GB ($80) though there are lots of 16 GB cards for $27 and the prices are dropping as larger capacities are released. 8 GB is just $14.



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Naraku_Diabolos on 12 March 2009
regin2005 said:
32 and 64 GBs sounds way too big for the Wii and will probably be too expensive as well. I could see them putting a HDD size of no more than 20 GB at the most.

Then again this is a rumour so this might not be true anyways.

HAH, I got a Western Digital portable external hard drive the size of the first iPod (you can stick this external into your pocket!) and it's 320 GB. I got it for $103. Not a bad price. A better deal than the SD Memory Cards the Wii has. $24.99 - $34.99 for 2 GB cards? Pffft...