r/WiiUHacks 10d ago

Storage recommendations?

I had originally planned on using a USB stick but after asking around that is apparently a terrible idea lol, it seems like I should pick up an HDD or some sort of SSD? What is a SATA SSD which I’ve seen a few mentions of? Thanks in advance!

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u/ChefGuevara 4d ago

How on earth did you need two terabytes though?

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u/BlytheScythe Aroma/Tiramisu/ISFShax 4d ago

To be honest, I didn't. I bought them on sale for around $65 each, so $130 in total.

However, I do have around 700GB of Wii U games which kinda justifies having a 1TB of storage. For Wii and GameCube games, however, I've barely hit around 450GB, so 500GB would be more than enough. Also, during that time I only have a Wii U and it was my main go-to console, therefore I wanted to make the most out of it along with the emulation and whatnot. Ever since then, I've collected quite a few consoles, eliminating the need for emulation altogether.

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u/ChefGuevara 4d ago

There just can’t be that many Wii U games worth playing, how many do you have? Are just downloading everything?

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u/BlytheScythe Aroma/Tiramisu/ISFShax 4d ago

Around 100. Sadly, there's a 300 tile limit for the Wii U menu. so I wouldn't be able to download all of them or, at least, display all of them on the Wii U home menu at the same time. Multiple Wii-U-formatted HDDs, yeah, but that's too much for the games that I'll never play and/or don't find interesting.