Micro SD card suggestions
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Honestly, I’ve always gone to a retail store if quality is a concern. Name brand SanDisks have literally never failed me.
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for the cards…
sandisk extreme ($139 at bby) is a good choice. the switch-licensed card is the same price, and i think it’s the same card inside. the switch one also has a discount for bbyplus members (look on bby site for that).
the samsung pro plus costs a bit less and works well, too ($89 at bby).
for where to get them, safely…
buy in-store from a major retailer to avoid the potential problems with amazon’s co-mingled inventory.
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Thank you
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So, the SD Association is absolutely fucking insane when it comes to giving labels to literally anything.
The Steam Deck supports UHS-1 microSD cards.
That’s the name of the bus. There’salso UHS-2 and UHS-3, but they’re backwards compatible with UHS-1, so that’s whatever.
Speeds…
Some cards used speed “classes”, like Class 10…
There’s also U1 or U3 speeds (which is a speed rating independent of the bus. (A U3 cards is probably a UHS-1 card.
Some have a speed rated with a V, like V10, V30, etc.
They often have multiple labels too.
These can all be used to label the speed of a UHS-1 card:
UHS Speed Class
Video Speed Class
Class 10
Anyway, U3 is basically the same as a V30.
U3/V30 would be the minimum I’d get for the Deck. Price being the deciding factor for the rest.
I don’t really care if the card ever fails, so brand was irrelevant in my choice.
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That’s very annoying how complicated it is. Ok, U3 or V30. What about the A? Is it A1? A2? Or does that not matter.
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So, A1/A2 is yet another scale they invented because, why not.
A2 is supposed to have more IOPS than A1, although in benchmarks, some A1s perform better.
I wouldn’t worry too much about it tbh.
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Awesome. I appreciate the input.
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Unrelated to the question, but I just wanted to note how surprising it was how fricking HOT sd cards get after you push a couple hundred GB of data onto them
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I’ve not had an issue with genuine SanDisk micro sdxcs, despite purchasing from several different sources. SanDisk have 1.5tb for $99 on amazon. Wherever you purchase from use f3probe to verify as soon as possible - …readthedocs.io/…/introduction.html.
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Holy shit, thank you so much. It even has a Qt UI which fits very well with my desktop. Ill definitely use it when I get a card.
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The best place to buy Samsung cards is from Samsung’s site, the best place to buy Sandisk cards is from … Western Digital. Sometimes they even have sales that approximate Amazon.
It’s pretty safe to assume that you will get a real card from the horse’s mouth.
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I try to stay away from the Samsung site so I don’t buy the new phone. Lmao
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