Also anyone can tell me the difference in performance between the white one and the blue one??

  • @Stampela@startrek.website
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    152 years 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.

    • ekZeppOP
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      22 years ago

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

      • Skull giver
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        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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        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.

        And the most of the storage is coming from software stored in your home, not the OS itself. The OS only occupies around 3.3GB on the 5GB root partition:

        /dev/nvme0n1p4  5.0G  3.3G  1.5G  69% /
        /dev/nvme0n1p6  230M   41M  173M  19% /var
        /dev/nvme0n1p8  466G  115G  351G  25% /home
        
      • 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.

      • Owl
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        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)

      • @Stampela@startrek.website
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        32 years 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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        I don’t even know why they have a 64GB version.

        This is the one I use. I believe you want to look for the “A2” SD card. No issues with speed or reliability yet. I play ges like Elden Ring and RDR2.

        https://a.co/d/7pFQpEB

        • mhz (lemm.ee)
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          Not everyone is playin triple A titles, for someone like me who prefer old or/and 2.5D games (which are usually under 10Gib), the 64gb variant would be mostly fine.

  • @olicvb@lemmy.ca
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    72 years 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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      That’s awesome that the Steam Deck does a check like that.

  • @mctoasterson@reddthat.com
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    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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    I have the second one on 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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    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 Plus 512.

    • @SuperIce@lemmy.world
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      12 years ago

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

      • @NoXPhasma@lemmy.world
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        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?

        • @SuperIce@lemmy.world
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          12 years ago

          Amazon is the only seller of the Select cards. For the Plus, anyone can be a seller, so there could be fakes being sold as well. If the Plus is being sold directly by Amazon, then yes, it should be a legit card and there should be no difference.

  • 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.