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.

  • [email protected]A
    11·
    16 hours 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 (mostly) irrelevant in my choice.

    • penquin@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      3 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.