USB storage now possible for Wii

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Just don't expect to load anything off it

http://svenpeter.blogspot.com/

Thankfully the Wii also has two USB slots that are ideal for this purpose: USB hard discs are really cheap today and can be used to store really much data. Libogc already has support for raw USB messages - the mass storage driver is the only thing missing.
There's one catch though why all those piracy kids can now stop reading and visit some other site: Only USB 1.1 is supported by the hardware current IOS versions (made this a bit more clear because the hardware might support usb 2) so you're not going to be able to load your warez copies legal backups from the HDD. It's never going to be fast enough

USB 1.1

Nintendo claims they are 2.0 though.

The Wii system has 512 megabytes of internal flash memory, two USB 2.0 ports and built-in Wi-Fi capability.

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USB 1.1? 

Sweet, it'll be like doing things on my 8 year old Powermac G4.