Alright, so I've been following the whole situation with Wii U eMMCs dying since March this year, and I've been finding conflicting information about what causes Wii U eMMCs to die. Some people say it is from not having the system plugged in for long periods, some people say it is because Hynix chips are faulty, some people say it is because of having a bad auto save, some people say it is because the system lost power during a system update.
As someone who has had a Wii U since 2012, the system is pretty important to me as I have had a lot of memories with it, so I really don't want to lose it anytime soon. My Wii U still works to this day and I haven't seen any of the fatal error codes once within the past 10 years of me using the system, so that has given me hope that my Wii U might live a long life.
Out of paranoia since my Wii U is soft-modded, I made a NAND backup and used WiiUIdent to check the production date and eMMC manufacturer of the system.
These were the results:
Wii U production date: 2012/09/24 03:35
Manufacturer: Samsung
MLC production date: 2012/08
Now I've I mentioned before, a lot of people have pointed to Hynix chips being a possible cause of eMMC failure, and Maschell himself has pointed that out as the potential cause too after the HackMD list was published. As of today, 38 failures were recorded with 36 of them being Hynix, 2 of them being Samsung, and 0 of them being Toshiba.
So I really have to ask, has there been any updates on this situation? Has it been figured out what exactly causes the data on the eMMC to corrupt? Surely it isn't just the Hynix chips as from the HackMD list, 2 Samsung failures were reported and I've seen people on GBAtemp report that their Wii U with a Toshiba chip corrupted too. So what exactly determines whether a Wii U lives or dies? Is it all luck? Because again, I've had my Wii U for over 10 years and never saw any of the fatal error codes. So what exactly did I do differently from everyone else that caused my Wii U to still be fine after all these years? Did I just get lucky with a non-faulty chip?
As someone who has had a Wii U since 2012, the system is pretty important to me as I have had a lot of memories with it, so I really don't want to lose it anytime soon. My Wii U still works to this day and I haven't seen any of the fatal error codes once within the past 10 years of me using the system, so that has given me hope that my Wii U might live a long life.
Out of paranoia since my Wii U is soft-modded, I made a NAND backup and used WiiUIdent to check the production date and eMMC manufacturer of the system.
These were the results:
Wii U production date: 2012/09/24 03:35
Manufacturer: Samsung
MLC production date: 2012/08
Now I've I mentioned before, a lot of people have pointed to Hynix chips being a possible cause of eMMC failure, and Maschell himself has pointed that out as the potential cause too after the HackMD list was published. As of today, 38 failures were recorded with 36 of them being Hynix, 2 of them being Samsung, and 0 of them being Toshiba.
So I really have to ask, has there been any updates on this situation? Has it been figured out what exactly causes the data on the eMMC to corrupt? Surely it isn't just the Hynix chips as from the HackMD list, 2 Samsung failures were reported and I've seen people on GBAtemp report that their Wii U with a Toshiba chip corrupted too. So what exactly determines whether a Wii U lives or dies? Is it all luck? Because again, I've had my Wii U for over 10 years and never saw any of the fatal error codes. So what exactly did I do differently from everyone else that caused my Wii U to still be fine after all these years? Did I just get lucky with a non-faulty chip?