It should work but it's not recommended because flash drives wear out quickly with heavy usage. That SanDisk drive would fail fairly quickly.
Your best bet would be an external harddrive. It's more expensive of course but it'll last much longer.
Uh, i have a 32gb flash drive in. Been using it since 2013.
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It should work but it's not recommended because flash drives wear out quickly with heavy usage. That SanDisk drive would fail fairly quickly.
Your best bet would be an external harddrive. It's more expensive of course but it'll last much longer.
Uh, i have a 32gb flash drive in. Been using it since 2013.
No problems with it?
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I had a PNY 16GB Flash Drive in my Wii U for a while. It worked well enough when I was actually downloading content. The only thing I couldn't do reliably was play a game that was downloaded.
There was a 1 GB update for Assassin's Creed IV and I installed it on the flash drive. It worked perfectly. I grabbed Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate when it was $20 and installed it on the flash drive. It worked once, then it kept crashing with a screen telling me there was an issue with my storage device. I tried doing this again with Child of Light (worked flawlessly), Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara (worked perfectly), Earthbound (another great run), Super Metroid (worked perfectly, too), Game and Wario (worked once), and Pikmin 3 (just crashed) before I bought a 320GB PDP external hard drive.
So...if you're going to use it for smaller games (like Child of Light and Dungeons & Dragons), it should work fine. However, for big games like Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze (or Monster Hunter and Pikmin 3), I think you should invest in a hard drive.
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The problem with flash drives is they they have a limited number of write and erase cycles (essentially, they wear out). If yours is still working fine, that's great, but I wouldn't keep any crucial data on it.
Hard drives can fail too but they don't suffer from the write/erase limitation.
Yes this is the case, if you go to wiki or some other source, you will find out the number of writes/reads for each memory sized USB pen. Honestly, I used to use a Duracell 32GB pen that my girlfriend picked up for me but when I started downloading some serious games, I switched to a WD 320GB external hard drive using a Y-cable and not powered externally. It has worked fine without any problems.
I would say that if you wanted to use a USB, that is fine, but probably copy all your USB data to a new fresh USB every year or so, so that you don't lose anything if the USB gets locked from the limited read/writes.
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You can get a 1TB Seagate or Toshiba USB drive for £40 or less. You'll also need either a y-cable or a powered USB hub that outputs sufficient power to reliably drive a portable hard drive - should set you back about £20.
A USB flash drive is fine in a pinch. if it dies out, you can just redownload the games when you need them again. you can also back up save files to the internal drive for redundancy
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