[darwinthebeagle]

I am planning on getting a 1TB external USB Hard Drive, and partitioning it 50/50 for PC/Wii use.

Can anyone recommend a drive that works fine on the Wii-I fancy a WD Elements 1TB

Thanks

[panjabi_j4tt]

I use an IDE 500gb drive from hitachi and that works fine. Don't think SATA WD will give you any problems. If your using it to play backups then you will be fine

[Sy1441]

I use a Lacie Niel Poulton one and it works fine.

[darwinthebeagle]

Looked at the Lacie ones, how long have you been using it-the WD drive I was looking at has a high PSU failure rate

[Sy1441]

Originally Posted by darwinthebeagle

Looked at the Lacie ones, how long have you been using it-the WD drive I was looking at has a high PSU failure rate

Not long. I've got quite a few of them and the network space drives that I use as NAS. Never really have any problems.

[Lampshader]

you can't use a whole 1TB partition you need to break it down to 2X500gb partitions. Have a look at this link for compatibility

USB Devices Compatibility List - WikiTemp

[darwinthebeagle]

Bought a new 1TB Seagate Fre Agent (5 year warranty), but figures 1TB would never get filled, so am using the 1TB on the PC and my old Seagate FreeAgent 500GB on the Wii-works perfect.

Enabled the ' never sleep ' option in Disk Manager and now the HD starts up and turns off with the Wii.

Thanks for the replies guys

[boozyjunior]

Hi i need some help guys can i buy a 1tb extrenal hard drive and connect via a usb put all my music, photos and films on it and will the wii play these back for me ok do i need to do anything else to get these to play is it that simple to do.

Any help would be good as this could save me a lot of hassle and money

Thanks in advance

[super-saint]

Hi guys

Could someone point me in the direction of an idiots guide on how to coneect & use an external HD with a Wii ?

Thanks
Saint

[C2_lad]

hope you dont mind if i also make a request, can someone advise of a 500gb HD that is USB powered for the WII? want to buy it as a chrimbo present!
thanks!

[Tiger Feet]

I use this one:

Seagate | Information Technology | Computer Peripherals | Hard Drives | Portable Hard Disks |ST305004FDD2E1-RK

However it does require power from a mains socket.

[oioldman]

I 2nd super-saint on his request.

any dummies guides that can we can be pointed at please?

[cv65user]

i have iomega prestige 1tb split in 500wbfs / 500 ntfs which was intermittently reocgnise by wii until i upgraded to cios rev 14 . from there it recognised perfect in usb loader gx .

[RAMiAM]

Western Digital My Book Essentials works well and powers up/down with the Wii.

RAM.

[Pidsley]

Just browsing, but why would you want to connect a hard drive to a Wii?

[mike_6480]

Originally Posted by Pidsley

Just browsing, but why would you want to connect a hard drive to a Wii?

Allows you to run homebrew / games from the hard drive (so you don't need to swap disks to change games)

[Teddy25]

Woah, what have I missed!? I didn't know you could connect hard drives to a Wii - and why on Earth would you need a 1TB drive!? Aren't the WiiWare games just a matter of a few megabytes?