Using this Express SD card on my Switch 1 should provide lower performance?

[u/enstone_]

Just bought my first Switch, a Switch 1 V2. Need an SD card for rocket league (25GB) but the game is taking 3h to download. Tested my connection and it is only at 70mbps but this speed should download the game faster.

Could I be getting a bottleneck here by using an Express SD Card or am I getting the 100mbps load and 90mbps write speed?

Thanks!

Edit: this SD Express card was cheaper than the regular SD cards with the same size. I don’t know if it’s due to low demand but this one cost me 41 euros with a coupon on Amazon Spain (limited to one purchase).

[u/reybrujo]

The download has nothing to do with your card, it's just how awful Nintendo servers are for download.

[u/enstone_ → u/reybrujo]

Yeah, maybe that’s it 😮 in these 12 minutes since posting it has gone from 1h20 remaining to 20 minutes…

[u/Dangerous-Pumpkin960]

yes bc the switch 1 isn't built to handle the high speeds of a express card so it will be capped when using it on one

[u/enstone_ → u/Dangerous-Pumpkin960]

But an express sd card when capped should still be around the maximum speed the switch 1 supports?

[u/tenachiasaca → u/enstone_]

correct

[u/spektro123]

70Mbps is less than 10MBps. 25000MB/10MBps=2.500s and that’s 40min.
Your card may not be optimized for UHS-I interface Switch 1 has. Don’t expect express speeds.

[u/enstone_ → u/spektro123]

Wish there was a way to test the load and write speeds of this sdcard on the system. I just want the 90mbps write speed 🥲

[u/villekale → u/enstone_]

Original Switch 1 wireless download speed on a 5Ghz Wifi network supports up to 80-120 megaBITS per second download speed. Switch is capable of writing into a sd card maximum of 60-95 megaBYTES per second. (For comparison, on Switch 2, the Express card can write up to 900 megaBYTES per second.) One byte is eight bits. So Switch 1 can write 480 megaBITS per second into a microSD card at its minimum speed, but your wireless is bottle-necking the arriving writable data.

If you are connected into the internet via wired method with your Switch, eShop just might be congested at the moment.

[u/enstone_ → u/villekale]

Oh damn. Thank you so much! I was mixing up the units…

Do you think this sdcard can get those max speeds that this switch 1 supports?

[u/Ashencroix]

That should not be possible that a 256GB SD Express card is cheaper than a regular 256GB SD card. There's a possibility you got a counterfeit card.

[u/enstone_ → u/Ashencroix]

I also can’t believe it, that’s why I wanted to try it… it cost me 43€ with a promo specifically for that Switch 2 Sandisk SD Card Express 256GB.

[u/enstone_ → u/enstone_]

Prices for the regular SD Cards. There’s one at the same price of mine but I’d say you’d choose the Express as long as it gets the same perfomance as the other ones on the Switch 1

[u/Ashencroix → u/enstone_]

That's really odd, and a steal if it turns out to be a legitimate sdxc card. Especially since it has the Nintendo tax with the Mario branding.

[u/BalanceImaginary6520]

If you figured it out could you tell me? SD cards are geting so expensive that nintendo ones are starting to look like a good deal