[Question] Anyone know if those Miscro sd cards work well on the Steam Deck?

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• Cotillion189@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have Evo plus. Works fine.

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  • Niithed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same. No issues so far.

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  • ekZepp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Great, ty. 👍

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• Stampela@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Select is the one exclusive for Amazon, my understanding is that it’s meant to help with counterfeit ones, as only Amazon has them. Very good cards either way.

  Not sure how it compares price wise right now, but look at the Amazon basics ones too: they’re made by the same company that bought Lexar and makes the emmc inside the 64gb Deck. Mine has been going strong for about a year now. Speed wise they’re essentially the same: the standard used in the Deck tops out at 104 megabytes per second, so any claims of extra speed are just marketing.

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  • ekZepp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    BTW is normal that the free space on the 64 Steam Deck is actually 40-something gb?? I mean 20gb of OS?

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    • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      20GB of OS is quite normal for a modern desktop. Steam Deck actually has two copies of the core OS installed, to ensure there’s always a bootable version and to make upgrades painless. A basic Ubuntu install requires 8.5GB of storage and that doesn’t include Steam or Proton.

      Compare this to Xbox, where the 512GB drive has 148GB of system files and reserved space. The 32GB Switch reserves about 6GB and the Switch OS is purpose-built rather than a Linux distro with Steam bolted onto it.

      It sucks that consoles are advertised with their storage size rather than their usable storage size. They should really put the usable storage on the box rather than the theoretical size, especially when they sell different storage tiers.

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    • NoXPhasma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Additionally, to what was already said, the size of storage is giving in Decimal (1000B based) while after formatting it is often shown in Binary (1024B based), which makes the storage look smaller, which it isn’t.

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    • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Its on the low side but still within reason. Its not just an OS, it’s an OS, a full steam install, a web browser( actually 2 of them because steam also packs an embedded browser), a desktop environment, HD animations, HD wallpapers (several of them) and it adds up quick.

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    • Stampela@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep. The os isn’t tiny, plus there’s all sorts of extra stuff. For example 1gb is gone on every Deck because that’s reserved for swap… and then shader cache sneaks in and depending on the game you might run out of space in no time.

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    • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just buy an nvme SSD, the one in the deck is really easy to replace (if you have a good screwdriver, like in the ifixit kit/ other phone repair kits)

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    • vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t even know why they have a 64GB version.

      This is the one I use. No issues with speed or reliability yet. I play ges like Elden Ring and RDR2.

      a.co/d/7pFQpEB

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    • SuperIce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      IIRC, it was 20GB of OS at launch, but they shrunk it. Now it’s a little over 10GB.

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    • PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Shader cache takes a big chunk of the available space

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• olicvb@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Came here to advise running F3 to test the sd card, and make sure it’s legit.

  Turns out the Steam Deck does it on it’s own when you use the steam UI formatter, Beautiful

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s awesome that the Steam Deck does a check like that.

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• mctoasterson@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have had good luck with these. One has been in my Deck for 6+ months, with about 1/2 my library on it. Load speeds etc. have been decent.

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• NoXPhasma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They are both exactly the same, Select is just a rebrand of Amazon. Don’t buy Select unless it is cheaper. And yes they work fine, have the Evo 512.

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  • SuperIce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why shouldn’t they buy the select? Isn’t the whole purpose of it being exclusive to prevent people from getting fake cards?

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    • threegnomes@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      samsung has a tool that can verify the legitimacy of cards. if it’s counterfeit send it back

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    • NoXPhasma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If Amazon is unable to make sure you got no fake Plus if they are the seller, how in the world would they make sure the Select is no fake?

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• MuThyme@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have the second one in that list, and while I’ve got an ROG ally rather than a steam deck, I can tell you it performs quite well. I’m pretty sure these are often recommended for the deck for all the same reasons.

  Load times are a little slower for bigger games, but that’s usually just when starting the game up.

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• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve got 3 of the 512GB Evo Plus ones on rotation in the Deck, for my Steam library/game-hoarding-addiction.

  I got one of the first batch of UK Steam Decks, and have been running those SD cards since whenever that was. No issues so far.

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