That’s fair but honestly for most games they’re just fine. Also this will work with more than just as cards, any usb drive should act the same, SD cards are just a bit more conventional.
I hope someone make something tiny but as good as a SSD in future, SD cards are absolute shit.
For me it doesn’t even have to be as tiny as SD card, even a credit card sized memory is good
SSDs are less reliable than an HDD if we speak about lifespan (which is still pretty high) but it’s not really a problem for the avarage joe plus they got better in the years and can’t be recovered if they break.
SD cards are waay less reliable than a SSD and it’s a concern for me
Oh yeah I just found it amusing that the old “unreliable” thing is now being used as a gauge for “reliable enough”
I luckily have no experience with either breaking for me over 15ish years of active computer usage, so I have no fears or trust issues there yet. I also use cloud saves on steam for everything and I’m lucky enough to live in an area with good internet, so worst case I play a different game while my big game is downloading again after I broke something.
This is peak but at the same time i hate SD cards. Idk how to feel about it 🥀
It’s an option that you do not have to use.
Yeah and? I am not making a critique about using it, i am making a critique to SD cards themselves because they are not very reliable and slow
That’s fair but honestly for most games they’re just fine. Also this will work with more than just as cards, any usb drive should act the same, SD cards are just a bit more conventional.
I mean, I’ve been running Linux off it on a Pi for years without issue.
A single year, at long it may have problems
My experience with playing games off an SD card in Steam Deck was… lackluster, shall we say (performance-wise).
I share your feelings about SD cards.
I’ve had issues with installing games being slow, but I don’t think I’ve ever noticed any difference in performance during actual gameplay.
I hope someone make something tiny but as good as a SSD in future, SD cards are absolute shit. For me it doesn’t even have to be as tiny as SD card, even a credit card sized memory is good
Uh that already exists, MicroSD Express. It’s essentially a PCIe Gen 3 x1 NVMe SSD under the hood
Are they as reliable as an SSD? If not then the problem is still there
I remember people saying that about SSDs vs HDDs, SSDs were the unreliable newfangled junk. Am I old?
SSDs are less reliable than an HDD if we speak about lifespan (which is still pretty high) but it’s not really a problem for the avarage joe plus they got better in the years and can’t be recovered if they break. SD cards are waay less reliable than a SSD and it’s a concern for me
Oh yeah I just found it amusing that the old “unreliable” thing is now being used as a gauge for “reliable enough”
I luckily have no experience with either breaking for me over 15ish years of active computer usage, so I have no fears or trust issues there yet. I also use cloud saves on steam for everything and I’m lucky enough to live in an area with good internet, so worst case I play a different game while my big game is downloading again after I broke something.
I’ve had several die on me in Raspberri pi’s after prolonged use.
Depends on what metric you look at.
There’s already small NVMe drives the size of, say, four SD cards with up to 1-2 TB capacity. So it shouldn’t be long I reckon.
Crazy, i hope that companies start to adopt them instead of SD cards soon
Xbox series s/x has ssds like this but they’re pretty expensive. Not sure if the price is high because of the tech, the specs or the licensing