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I load all my wii games from a usb ssd and it's 10x faster than any cd.

And i think it's usb1

USB1.0 and 1.1 could do 12 MBit/s at most, and pretty much died off with USB2 in 2000. I doubt that you have a USB1 SSD.

What the disk is capable of and what the Wii is capable of may be responsible for that difference.