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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (24 children)

~~MicroSD cards are crazy slow compared to all other storage, this doesnt seem like a good idea~~

I had a chance to test Watch Dogs Legion on my fastest SD card (Samsung, v30, 170MB/s read, 130MB/s write) and it was perfectly playable, even cranked to ultra. So I take back my assertion.

I guess my camera software must just be crazy slow, because im more used to real world 20MB/s read.

I will still assert that you need a good high speed card reader, I have seen some cheapo ones that are garbage, but given Valve has full control of that, shouldn't be a problem.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 17 points 6 days ago (4 children)

UHS II micro SD cards operate at 312MB/s

That's pretty good.. It's like double a typical HDD read speed

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Read or write? I can hit the write sticker speed on mine, but read is terrible.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If read is terrible it might be due to having atime writes turned on, or just a bad card. Usually read is better than write. What filesystem?

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fat32, its a card for a camera

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago

Definitely want to make sure atime is turned off on computers for that if possible

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