Micro SD card suggestions

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨penquin@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

Could anyone please suggest a good micro SD card that is reasonably priced and is great for the steam deck? You go to Amazon and you find a gazillion brand with many different prices. Plus all the horror stories I’ve seen online with all the fake storage people buy from Amazon. So, if you guys have a suggestion I’d really appreciate some links/names. I’m open for best buy and micro center and even Walmart if I needed to. I’m looking for a 1TB card and I don’t care about the brand as long as it works well. Thank you all in advance.

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rotopenguin@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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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- penquin@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I try to stay away from the Samsung site so I don’t buy the new phone. Lmao
  
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otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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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InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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

U1: 10 MB/s minimum write speed.

U3: 30 MB/s minimum write speed.

Video Speed Class

V6: 6 MB/s minimum write speed.

V10: 10 MB/s minimum write speed.

V30: 30 MB/s minimum write speed.

V60: 60 MB/s minimum write speed.

V90: 90 MB/s minimum write speed.

Class 10

Class 10: 10 MB/s minimum write speed (legacy).

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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- penquin@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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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  - InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    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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SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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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adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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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- penquin@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Thank you
  
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01011@monero.town ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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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- penquin@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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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