Does a USB-to-SD adapter exist?
January 1, 2012 12:39 AM

Is there any such thing as an USB-to-SD adapter, so you could connect an external hard drive to anything that reads SD cards?

I'm specifically looking so I could use it to watch movies on my Wii with the photo channel, which I understand lets you play movies. I keep all my movies on an external hard drive, as well as my photos, so I'd love to actually use that channel on the Wii to watch movies and look at ALL my photos. The Wii only reads from SD cards, even though it has USB ports that don't connect to another hard drive without homebrew stuff I'm not yet willing to try.

Does it exist? My Google fu yields me nothing...
posted by dubadubowbow to Computers & Internet (4 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
I really doubt you will find that, I have never heard of such a thing, and how would your wii understand the file system? Why are you unwilling to try a home brew solution? is it irreversible? (I don't own a wii but I have been reading a lot about hacking ps2s lately)
posted by oceanjesse at 1:43 AM on January 1, 2012


Such a thing would be too complicated to be really cheap, and it wouldn't be great anyway - it couldn't show the full size of the hard drive for example (the Wii doesn't even support SDHC so you are probably limited to 4GB).

The cheapest way would be to install the homebrew channel on your Wii and install one of the media player apps - they will all read from a USB hard drive.
Nintendo doesn't really want you to do this, but it really is easy and the chance of breaking anything pretty small.
posted by samj at 1:45 AM on January 1, 2012


Card readers are dumb, they can't do any of the USB control stuff that would be necessary for the hard drive to actually pass data into the computer.
posted by rhizome at 9:27 AM on January 1, 2012


Usually these types of devices would have an onboard asic or fpga processor with a usb i/o controller...but from my experience, obscure devices like this are usually off the consumer markets (eg. can only get directly from a manufacturer usually in Korea, Taiwan, or Japan)

Support for a device like this would then be pretty much nil. Seconding the homebrew channel route instead, it's fairly safe.
posted by samsara at 9:47 AM on January 1, 2012


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