Wii U External Storage with an SSD

Recently my Wii U has been running out of space. A couple of modern games and the paltry 32GB of storage is filled. The Wii U does allow you add more storage via USB, and I had a 32GB Flash Drive dedicated to that task, however that was also running out of room. Being a tech nerd I had a few random 2.5″ external HDDs lying around, but the Wii U was unable to supply enough power over one USB to get the drives to work. The Wii U only has USB 2.0, so it’s less power than a 3.0 port. Luckily, I have a spare 128GB SSD lying around, too, and after swapping the case off of another external HDD, I created a 128GB external SSD. It’s fast, silent, and best of all it works. If you were to buy the parts new, the External Enclosure would set you back between $6 and $10, and a 120GB SSD is about $24 as of this writing. That being said, you can get 120/128GB Flash drives for as little as $20, so it’s a $14 difference. If I didn’t already have parts and pieces lying around I’d probably have just bought a flash drive. The speed gains of the SSD over the flash drive are probably non-existent since the Wii U is only running USB 2.0. The only upside to an SSD is probably far more write operations vs a flash drive.