I need a cheap but reliable external HDD for my Wii U. Anyone

Shameful bump

Anything made by HGST (Hitachi) is really reliable; but for 120GB it probably won't matter too much, thats a small drive and probably really cheap and pre-owned.

>>366327
If it's only 120GB, a preowned 360 hard disk and a 360 transfer cable.

You'll need to format it on a PC, but the disk is just eSATA with an odd connector, and the transfer cable is just a eSATA/USB with an odd eSATA connector.

If you only need a small disk, these are the very cheapest disks you can get, and they don't have cheap disks inside them because when they were made they were expensive.

>>366327
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TKFEEAS/

>inb4 memegate

Look, you're looking for an external hard drive. The only manufacturers that make reliable and affordable drives in external casing are Seagate and WD, really. HGST is premium price for basically the same shit. The difference in failure rates is negligible, and that old af backblaze comparison is I'm not gonna say irrelevent or BS but it's not the be all end all of HDD comparisons. Neither is anecdotal evidence from /g/. If you compared everyone who had a bum seagate with everyone who doesn't, you'd find that it's pretty safe to get one. People with working seagates don't generally post about it. And I'm not dickriding seagate here, get a WD if you want, the point is they are the same.

>but I don't NEED 1tb
1TB is the smallest the reliable names make these days. And considering the starting price point for almost all external drives (whether 1tb or 120) is ~$50 (don't believe me? just check amazon or newegg and compare). Not much point in getting a used poo in loo brand 120gb from 2010 when a new fresh from factory WD 1TB is the same price.

tl;dr Seagate and WD are fine, 1TB is where you should be looking because the garbage 100GB maxone kinda shit are ripoffs.