I actually use a 3.5 HDD dock, which looks like this. I believe I actually have my drive partitioned into 2 and have a wii game partition and the other is general HDD storage/backup. Fortunately, you can replace the drive yourself for ~$35. World's Leading Manufacturer of HDD SSD Caddies
So 500GB holds more games than I could/want to play. !The Best external HDD for the Wii U is a 200GB MicroSD card! For most laptops the optical drive is held in by one screw at the bottom of the laptop. Insert hard drive or SSD into drive caddy. Be sure to fully insert the hard drive in the hard drive bay. Set the DVD drive on its side next to the Wii, leaving it still attached to the Nintendo Wii, as per the picture below. It’s not hard to repair a Wii. Now the laptop manufacturers are abandoning the Optical drive on the new releases.
Free shipping. The matter is I want to add another ssd to to my inspiron 15" 5570, i5 8th gen. laptop with 5400 rpm 1TB 6gbps hdd. Place the replacement hard drive on the mounting bracket for the PS4™ system's hard drive, and then attach it with the screws (four places). The tabs will snap into place and attach to the drive caddy. Loosen the screw and remove. You will need to connect the power to your Wii. And should only cost you $35 (maybe less, if you have all the tools already.) Note that on some systems -- not sure about yours -- the SATA port intended for the optical drive uses an older, slower SATA standard than the one intended for the hard drive, e.g.
Far cheaper and faster than sending it to Nintendo for repair. Attach the optical drive faceplate / bezel to the drive caddy. It took me about 45 minutes, start to finish. Then shut laptop down and turn laptop over so you can access the bottom of the laptop. The Wode replaces the stand on the bottom of the Wii and connects between the DVD drive and the Motherboard allowing a USB hard disk to be attached. The drive you can it might operate at 3 Gbps rather than the newer 6 Gbps. If you can handle a screw driver and are gentle with things, you should have no problem replacing the drive. To get around both the problem posed by the D3-2 drive and to avoid swapping discs I’ve picked up one of the first of the new WODE devices.. $14.00. Installing Wii U DVD drive. Once the tab on the right releases, you will be able to remove the rest of the faceplate / bezel. The drive you can useTurn laptop power "On" and press the eject button on the optical drive so the optical drive tray ejects out.
The SSD or hard drive you can use is any 2.5" SATA drive with a maximum height of 9.5mm. 3. Fortunately, you can replace the drive yourself for ~$35. (I highly recommend the two screwdrivers linked above. Email: info@newmodeus.com Start by gently pressing on the "Tab" as shown in the photo.