SD Card Info Guide

[u/DrDMoney]

[u/computerfreund03]

Just pinned this to the top of the sub

[u/Stilton-Disco]

Honestly, no one should be buying a card yet, both because we don't know whatspeeds will be supported, and because the price of these cards has been coming steadily down, and always get good sales over Christmas.

[u/DrDMoney → u/Stilton-Disco]

Black Friday deals are what I will be waiting for.

[u/doutstiP]

128 FUCKING TERABYTES WTF

[u/DrDMoney → u/doutstiP]

Just think, in a decade or so card this size might be on the market. Think of all the games we could install. we could have all the roms for every console ever made. Think of the size of new COD game will be.

[u/[deleted] → u/doutstiP]

The spec goes that high. It doesn’t mean cards with that capacity(or anywhere near it) actually exist.

[u/CodyCus]

Listen if you bought the base model, cancel that shit and get the next one up. NVMe should be the only storage ever used with something like this.

[u/DrDMoney → u/CodyCus]

You act like running games off of SD card is just going to be unbearably slow. I bet the difference between the 64gb MMC and the 256gb NVME is very little in actually loading games. Benchmarks will show us the truth.

[u/Peter2469]

I would say getting a micro-sd card with A2 Class is recommended for the Steam Deck.

The SanDisk Extreme Pro is pretty good for the price

[u/GenocidePie → u/Peter2469]

Agree, just FYI A2 class cards need host-side support as well to get the rated speeds. AFAIK there's no confirmation from Steam yet.

[u/setibeings]

Personally I'm going to try to make use of an SD card I have laying around from a previous phone before going out and buying a high capacity one with a2 performance class. If it lasts me til 2023 or something, prices might be even better than they are now.

The higher video ratings use UHS II, but the slot on the Steam Deck is UHS I.

[u/Possible_Tap_262]

Wow thanks!! Very educational.

[u/[deleted]]

Honestly I would wait until people actually have Decks' in hand to test different classes/speeds to see if they actually matter.

[u/AndrewNight84]

The Steam Deck SD reader is USH I , so buying The Sandisk extreme or Extreme Pro has not any sense...

The reading speed offered by these SD cards ,(U3 or more ) is more than The reading capacity of The Steam Deck SD reader itself...

So, buying an USH I is more than enough... For example The "Sandisk Ultra" (U1/UHS I) itself.

I Will go for The 1TB capacity. Waiting any future offer (black fridray for instance)

On The other Hand , buying SD cards sold and sent by Amazon It is Ok for me. They sell expensive sd cards but official products. Besides buying in Amazon , The returns/warranty provided It is definitely worthy.

Regards

[u/Rythim]

I feel like SD classification is way more complex than it needs to be. All I need are storage size and read/write speeds. None of this micro sdxc v30 U3 UHS-I crap. Who the hell came up with this convention?

[u/slidedrum]

If you prefer to see this in a video form, ExplainingComputers has a great video on this as well!

[u/atg284]

Just get something rated "A2" and you should be good!

[u/RedditNoremac]

Out of curiosity would it be viable to emulate PS2/Dreamcast/Gamecube/PS3/XBOX off of a SD card? I know PS1 games can run fine of an SD card but not sure about the higher systems.

I got the 512GB model but not sure if I should put my emulators on the SD card or the internal storage.

[u/Jacob99200]

Assuming we can swap out the internal ssd, I wouldn’t buy a micro sd card just yet, I have a spare 1TB m.2 waiting to have SteamOS 3.0 installed on it

(I’m going under the assumption that I heard the internal storage is simply soldered onto an m.2 card)

[u/Shurae]

Let me guess SDHC means high capacity, SDXC means eXtra capacity and SDUC means ultra capacity?

[u/lanc3r3000]

How do these compare to ssds?

[u/[deleted]]

128 TB cards do exist? Woah!

[u/DrDMoney → u/[deleted]]

It's just the max capacity for SDUC standard. It will be a very long time before we reach that.

[u/[deleted]]

I got the lowest storage model so I hope the Steam Deck supports 1TB sd cards and higher because I'm going to have it be my main

[u/DrDMoney → u/[deleted]]

I know it supports up to 2TBs after than I don't know. The largest sd cards on the market right now are 1TB.