I have 1.5tb in my deck oled. Have about 125 games on it. Love the convenience but it just leads to an endless loop of bouncing around and not finishing anything.
I can still get through games despite having well over a thousand. Two tricks to make it easier and resist the temptation to try out something else in the middle of one is to simply have only a few installed at a time and to make the most of the decks wakeup and resume feature. Put it to sleep in the middle of a game, so you don't even see your library and instead get right back where you left off.
Because most card readers are for SD, SDHC and SDXC cards. The latter having a physical limitation of 2TB. For larger capacities you need card readers for SDUC cards as well.
>Western Digital
only had bad experience with them.
had two hdds of them, both of them died very fast. one after a year or so, the other in just 3 months of use.
You talking about their SSD's or their HDD's? Because their HDD's have the lowest rate of failure in the entire industry via statistics given by a giant ass datacenter who specializes in online backups.
I don't trust SSD's in general tbh. Did you know if you leave them unpowered the data is eventually erased after like a year or so? I trust my data to HDD's but you should always back up important data on multiple drives, online backups, etc.
>I don't trust SSD's in general tbh. Did you know if you leave them unpowered the data is eventually erased after like a year or so?
I bought a 2nd hand SSD a few years back to put in an XP machine I needed to use for a film scanner that was DoA. It was going to be more hassle to return so I just left it in there. 3 months later and it returned to life, no data but functional.
I really don't trust SSD's for storage, HDD's the way to go.
>I really don't trust SSD's for storage
Total nonsense, unless you bought your SSD in 1998 there is nothing wrong with current tech ssds. I've been using one for 10 years now and it's at 94% life. At this rate it will outlast me.
>I don't trust SSD's in general tbh.
You do know that when SSDs fail, they fail on writes, not reads. Meaning you can get your data off them 99% of the time still.
Meanwhile HDD's just death click or frick up the dead sectors so bad that it becomes <10MB/s while you panic that it won't fully die.
HDDs are black magic to me. I had one caviar black years ago, it had bad sectors, so I isolated them on a separate partition and kept on trucking. The thing still chugged like a tractor though. Never failed, but was annoying and slow.
As long as more sectors don't go bad, you're safe. But every HDD has a limit(use like crystal disk or something to find it's limit) to bad sectors and data loss.
Sadly SSD storage cost is back up. I'm just glad I built a 48TB flash nas when 4TB was like $150 a pop
That could probably hold every single game in my 1,500 library, plus all my roms in one tiny little card on my steam dec which is the best video game purchase I've ever made. I remember having to use 30 floppy discs, each one 10 times bigger just for a few megabytes of storage, amazing how far we've come.
>4TB of dogshit slow transfer speeds >Most devices tend to only have MicroSD support anyway
Proper SD card support is still far too hit or miss for me to get too excited about this kind of thing.
How good/bad are SD cards or flash drives for long term storage?
I have an external HDD bay and platter drives for backups but it's always a pain to start it up so I don't do backups too often.
>How good/bad are SD cards or flash drives for long term storage?
Like the other anon said, you have to run them every so often or you risk data loss. If you just want to set it and forget it get an HDD for better reliability.
Yeah, I need decent read/write speeds and SD cards are worthless for that.
Bad. The SD cards themselves are designed to last about 10 years, but they'll lose their charge and data long before that if you don't actively use them. If you want long term storage you should consider M-Discs or magnetic tape.
>The SD cards themselves are designed to last about 10 years, but they'll lose their charge and data long before that if you don't actively use them
What happens if you buy one and let it sit for a year or two, any risk in using it after that?
SDUC caps out at 128 TB for the spec but I have no idea how they'd actually get that much space onto flash media. There is a physical limit we're bumping up against with that, I imagine.
Yeah, this is becoming a problem across the board with computer components. We're hitting the absolute limit of how microscopic things can be, you know, once you're talking atomic levels of precision and size in the architecture you start to realize it's just not gonna get any smaller or more compact than that.
Wouldn't using the cards once a year for a minute at a time prevent this?
Like a yearly ritual where you sit down, plug a card in for a minute, eject, move onto the next?
I already do battery maintenance at 3, 6 & 12 month intervals. So this seems like it'd be up the same alley.
Depends on their usage, if you're using it for something like photography, music storage, etc. Just small writes that sit there for a long period, they'll last long. SD cards are pretty much just straight up nand like any usb.
SSDs have wear leveling, dram, proper controllers that make them last well longer.
I have 1.5tb in my deck oled. Have about 125 games on it. Love the convenience but it just leads to an endless loop of bouncing around and not finishing anything.
Abudance paradox.
They more options you have the lesser chance you will choose something.
>bragging about 1.5tb in a handheld in 2024
Kek the deck has so much storage.
I can still get through games despite having well over a thousand. Two tricks to make it easier and resist the temptation to try out something else in the middle of one is to simply have only a few installed at a time and to make the most of the decks wakeup and resume feature. Put it to sleep in the middle of a game, so you don't even see your library and instead get right back where you left off.
Finally, my Steam Deck can hold all my pornography.
The Steam Deck and in fact most Micro SD card readers are limited to 2TB storage cards.
Why?
Because most card readers are for SD, SDHC and SDXC cards. The latter having a physical limitation of 2TB. For larger capacities you need card readers for SDUC cards as well.
Yeah, and the first 2TB Micro SD card only just dropped this January for $230.
gimme a price check
Don't most of these things take micro SDs only?
I have like 2tb of switch games, so yes
Frick you moron scalping homosexuals here. Stop fricking buying all the SSDs.
It doesn't mean shit if the device itself doesn't support up to 4TB though.
My Switch2 will support up to 8TB.
>Western Digital
only had bad experience with them.
had two hdds of them, both of them died very fast. one after a year or so, the other in just 3 months of use.
Same. Good quality porn was lost that day along with now rare Arma 2 mods
You talking about their SSD's or their HDD's? Because their HDD's have the lowest rate of failure in the entire industry via statistics given by a giant ass datacenter who specializes in online backups.
I don't trust SSD's in general tbh. Did you know if you leave them unpowered the data is eventually erased after like a year or so? I trust my data to HDD's but you should always back up important data on multiple drives, online backups, etc.
>I don't trust SSD's in general tbh. Did you know if you leave them unpowered the data is eventually erased after like a year or so?
I bought a 2nd hand SSD a few years back to put in an XP machine I needed to use for a film scanner that was DoA. It was going to be more hassle to return so I just left it in there. 3 months later and it returned to life, no data but functional.
I really don't trust SSD's for storage, HDD's the way to go.
>I really don't trust SSD's for storage
Total nonsense, unless you bought your SSD in 1998 there is nothing wrong with current tech ssds. I've been using one for 10 years now and it's at 94% life. At this rate it will outlast me.
>I really don't trust SSD's for storage, HDD's the way to go.
I've had 2 HDD's die on me but never an SSD.
>I don't trust SSD's in general tbh.
You do know that when SSDs fail, they fail on writes, not reads. Meaning you can get your data off them 99% of the time still.
Meanwhile HDD's just death click or frick up the dead sectors so bad that it becomes <10MB/s while you panic that it won't fully die.
HDDs are black magic to me. I had one caviar black years ago, it had bad sectors, so I isolated them on a separate partition and kept on trucking. The thing still chugged like a tractor though. Never failed, but was annoying and slow.
As long as more sectors don't go bad, you're safe. But every HDD has a limit(use like crystal disk or something to find it's limit) to bad sectors and data loss.
Sadly SSD storage cost is back up. I'm just glad I built a 48TB flash nas when 4TB was like $150 a pop
SD cards are shit for modern games, take literally minutes sometimes to load on my Shit Deck which I regret purchasing.
That could probably hold every single game in my 1,500 library, plus all my roms in one tiny little card on my steam dec which is the best video game purchase I've ever made. I remember having to use 30 floppy discs, each one 10 times bigger just for a few megabytes of storage, amazing how far we've come.
there isn't even 4TB worth of good games in existence
>4TB of dogshit slow transfer speeds
>Most devices tend to only have MicroSD support anyway
Proper SD card support is still far too hit or miss for me to get too excited about this kind of thing.
How good/bad are SD cards or flash drives for long term storage?
I have an external HDD bay and platter drives for backups but it's always a pain to start it up so I don't do backups too often.
If you don't power it every few years you're risking the device losing charge and thus losing your data.
Hard disks don't have this problem.
>How good/bad are SD cards or flash drives for long term storage?
Like the other anon said, you have to run them every so often or you risk data loss. If you just want to set it and forget it get an HDD for better reliability.
Yeah, I need decent read/write speeds and SD cards are worthless for that.
Bad. The SD cards themselves are designed to last about 10 years, but they'll lose their charge and data long before that if you don't actively use them. If you want long term storage you should consider M-Discs or magnetic tape.
>The SD cards themselves are designed to last about 10 years, but they'll lose their charge and data long before that if you don't actively use them
What happens if you buy one and let it sit for a year or two, any risk in using it after that?
Depends on a lot of things, but a year or two is generally safe unless you bought a really shitty card or stored it improperly.
Good to know, thanks
SDUC caps out at 128 TB for the spec but I have no idea how they'd actually get that much space onto flash media. There is a physical limit we're bumping up against with that, I imagine.
Yeah, this is becoming a problem across the board with computer components. We're hitting the absolute limit of how microscopic things can be, you know, once you're talking atomic levels of precision and size in the architecture you start to realize it's just not gonna get any smaller or more compact than that.
Does anything use those big SD card anymore? Switcch, uses MicroSD doesn't it?
How about a read/write speed that doesn't suck dicks?
Wouldn't using the cards once a year for a minute at a time prevent this?
Like a yearly ritual where you sit down, plug a card in for a minute, eject, move onto the next?
I already do battery maintenance at 3, 6 & 12 month intervals. So this seems like it'd be up the same alley.
Can you build an array of SD cards for non archival storage?
I need storage that's not unreliable shit
Better take up stone masonry.
>he thinks standard SD cards are good enough to play games
This board gets stupider every day but that’s what Steam Deck does to your brain.
I just want something to get cheaper than 4tb HDDs. I hate 3.5" disks.
Aw yes those 150MB/s read speeds are perfect for gaming
SD needs to be dropped for CFExpress.
Even after a bunch of years, sd cards are still slow as frick in the random access times.
>4TB SD cards
>no smartphones that take SD cards
Technological progress failed
It was already over in the mid 2000's when Nokia were switching to mini SD and then micro for their handsets and Sony were pushing M2 so hard.
My only issue with using these things for long-term storage is that I've heard SD cards only last as long as about 6 TBW
Depends on their usage, if you're using it for something like photography, music storage, etc. Just small writes that sit there for a long period, they'll last long. SD cards are pretty much just straight up nand like any usb.
SSDs have wear leveling, dram, proper controllers that make them last well longer.
thats like <40 games at 10GB per game, nor including formatting and DLC bloat
>40 *10 GB = 400GB
>400GB is 4TB
American education
OOHHH SAY CAN YOU SEEEE
i meant 100GB, it was a typo
>I didn't make a mistake even though I didn't use any punctuation, capitals, it was just a small typo
Read before you post, moron.
4tb of nintendo sloppa and 3rd party 480p shit. damn!
Why the frick does CrystalDiskInfo need to make a scary fricking loud noise when my SSD health has only gone down to 99%
Then just turn it off bro.
>97% health already
Never buying another Samsung drive again