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NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 days agoYeah I haven’t had that problem at all and I have put some pretty big games on them. I think the latest one I am using is a SanDisk 1TB Extreme microSDXC UHS
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 2 days ago
Apparently the issue is games that have very many tiny files that aren't all inside of one larger file. This is a thread that sounds about right: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/tcomih/reserving_space_extremely_slow_on_sd_card/
So if a game is like GW2 and has nothing but a couple of extramassive files, it's very fast to allocate the space. If tha game has hundreds of thousands of very tiny files, it takes forever to allocate the space.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
That is really interesting, Thanks!