Originally posted by Quackdoc
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Originally posted by pixelherodev
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The Wii U.
For whatever weird reason, its USB ports are a bit notorious for being a bit low on amperage; a single USB port works fine for SSDs* but it commonly needs two USB ports for a mechanical hard drive, and this is all from first-hand experience as well.
The funny thing is, the Wii tends to be perfectly fine powering a mechanical hard drive with a single USB port despite it not even officially supporting USB drives and it only being useful for homebrew stuff, yet the Wii U officially supported the use of USB drives for storing purchased digital downloads (...or unofficially storing homebrew stuff of course).
*presumably most modern SSDs at least; I've noticed the Crucial M4 from over a decade ago requires more power and is my go-to test as to whether a given USB connection will be able to power an SSD or not; I have an ~6ft external power switch extension that also has two USB 2.0 ports that isn't able to power the Crucial M4 for example, but is able to do newer SSDs. Just be warned that Crucial SSDs newer than the M4 like to permanently lock itself to read-only if it doesn't receive enough power.
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