Can my Wii read a 1 Terabyte HDD?

TanMasked · May 6, 2024

I have an external hard drive. Toshiba made it and it has 1 terabyte of storage.
Will this work on my Wii?
The reason I ask this is because I noticed other people on this forum had problems with their terabyte hard drives.

Cranesbill · May 6, 2024

I feel like in the best case scenario it's gonna slow down your Wii with how much data there is, worst case it's gonna crash constantly. It ain't that powerful

DragonMals · May 6, 2024

I believe that it actually can! As long as the drive is formatted to Fat32. Take my words with a grain of salt though, as I haven't been in the Wii homebrew scene for a while.

XFlak · May 6, 2024

Up to 2TB is fine, above that requires some special steps and only works with some WD or Seagate drives

|<roni&g · May 6, 2024

Had a 1tb HDD in my Wii since 2010, works great. Just format to fat32 using guiformat

TanMasked · May 6, 2024

|<roni&g said:
Had a 1tb HDD in my Wii since 2010, works great. Just format to fat32 using guiformat

I'm using Ubuntu Linux. Will GParted work?

splaca · May 7, 2024

TanMasked said:
I'm using Ubuntu Linux. Will GParted work?

I'm pretty sure I've used KDE Partition Manager to prepare drives for use with the Wii, don't see why GParted wouldn't work as well.

Also you can probably follow this guide:

https://3ds.hacks.guide/formatting-sd-(linux).html

darkworldq8 · May 7, 2024

Yes, I believe that the Wii can support up to 2TB as long as they are formatted in FAT32. Using Windows, formatting anything above 32GB into FAT32 will require special software, and almost all modern HDDs don't come in FAT32 format.

I've heard that anything above 2TB will require a lot of tinkering.

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