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  • Kr0niic ☘️
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    Jul 16, 2021
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    maxxing

    what why? I got a 512gb micro sd card for like $50 on sale last year

    Paying $250 more for the same thing is ridiculous, especially when the only bonuses are a different type of case and some digital steam community goodies

    If you don’t care about NVME ssd speeds that’s fine

    The games will run the exact same just loading times will be slower

  • Jul 16, 2021
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    "It looks like you've been attempting a lot of purchases in the last few hours" Yes Valve, I f***ing have smh.

  • Kr0niic ☘️
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    Jul 16, 2021
    thebham

    i think they shut down the api url for the queue stats

    yep it’s gone

  • Kr0niic ☘️
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    Jul 16, 2021
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    Electric

    "It looks like you've been attempting a lot of purchases in the last few hours" Yes Valve, I f***ing have smh.

    Got that too.

    Finally got through after 20 minutes of that bullshit

  • Jul 16, 2021
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    Kr0niic

    If you don’t care about NVME ssd speeds that’s fine

    The games will run the exact same just loading times will be slower

    Aren’t sd cards faster than ssds?

  • Kr0niic ☘️
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    Jul 16, 2021
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    maxxing

    Aren’t sd cards faster than ssds?

    No

    Extreme Samsung cards do about 150mbps I think

    So faster than a hard drive slower than an ssd

  • Jul 16, 2021
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    Kr0niic

    Got that too.

    Finally got through after 20 minutes of that bullshit

    I literally signed into my Paypal and checked out at one point but it errored out

  • Jul 16, 2021
    maxxing

    what why? I got a 512gb micro sd card for like $50 on sale last year

    Paying $250 more for the same thing is ridiculous, especially when the only bonuses are a different type of case and some digital steam community goodies

    Ay buddy,your not playing Cyberpunk on an SD card,can barely play it on a hard drive

  • Kr0niic ☘️
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    Jul 16, 2021
    Electric

    I literally signed into my Paypal and checked out at one point but it errored out

    Check your purchase history and emails. Could have gone through

  • Jul 16, 2021
    maxxing

    Aren’t sd cards faster than ssds?

    not these nVME connections. remember SSD is type of storage, but the speed of data transfer to internal memory is dependent on the connection. Sata, usb 3.1, nvme pcie x3, etc

  • Jul 16, 2021
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    Kr0niic

    No

    Extreme Samsung cards do about 150mbps I think

    So faster than a hard drive slower than an ssd

    nah the new micro sds from 2019 do like 900mbps

  • Kr0niic ☘️
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    Jul 16, 2021
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    maxxing

    nah the new micro sds from 2019 do like 900mbps

    Wanna link me?

  • Jul 16, 2021
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    Kr0niic

    If you don’t care about NVME ssd speeds that’s fine

    The games will run the exact same just loading times will be slower

    Some games are being designed around SSDs and Nvmes tho,especially open world. I don’t think SD Card are fast enough to hold super complex games.

  • Kr0niic ☘️
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    Jul 16, 2021
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    gnarlynasty

    Some games are being designed around SSDs and Nvmes tho,especially open world. I don’t think SD Card are fast enough to hold super complex games.

    In the future yes 100% I agree, and the new consoles will make this the norm.

    But as of right now no game on pc requires an SSD, but it has been recommended for some games

  • Jul 16, 2021
    maxxing

    nah the new micro sds from 2019 do like 900mbps

    Well,maybe I’m thinking about those cheap Sandusky SD cards from Walmart lol. If there’s some fast enough to hold AAA games,I’d like to know too.

  • Jul 16, 2021
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    Kr0niic

    Wanna link me?

    howtogeek.com/436788/what-is-microsd-express-and-why-it-matters

    “ They are new types of SD cards that support a maximum read speed of 985 megabytes per second (MB/s). Current microSD cards, by comparison, don’t even hit 200 MB/s. The Express versions of SD use the PCIe 3.1 interface and NVMe to achieve this. These are the same technologies used by speedy, M.2 “gumstick” solid state drives in PCs. The new Express cards only use one lane of PCIe, however, while M.2 NVMe drives typically use four.”

    I guess they’re micro sd cards that use nvme somehow

  • Kr0niic ☘️
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    Jul 16, 2021
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    maxxing
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    http://www.howtogeek.com/436788/what-is-microsd-express-and-why-it-matters/

    “ They are new types of SD cards that support a maximum read speed of 985 megabytes per second (MB/s). Current microSD cards, by comparison, don’t even hit 200 MB/s. The Express versions of SD use the PCIe 3.1 interface and NVMe to achieve this. These are the same technologies used by speedy, M.2 “gumstick” solid state drives in PCs. The new Express cards only use one lane of PCIe, however, while M.2 NVMe drives typically use four.”

    I guess they’re micro sd cards that use nvme somehow

    Wonder if the steam deck sd card slot will support those speeds

  • Jul 16, 2021
    Kr0niic

    Wonder if the steam deck sd card slot will support those speeds

    I think anything that takes micro sd works with this but I’ll look into it

    edit: it might require an update because it seems android was updated to support it

  • Jul 16, 2021
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    flash cant compete with ssd
    but there's new s*** coming

  • Jul 16, 2021
    Kr0niic

    In the future yes 100% I agree, and the new consoles will make this the norm.

    But as of right now no game on pc requires an SSD, but it has been recommended for some games

    Yea,I think open world games will very soon need an SSD

  • Jul 16, 2021
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    Surprised it's not completely sold out yet

    Still locked out smh

  • Kr0niic ☘️
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    Jul 16, 2021
    Electric

    Surprised it's not completely sold out yet

    Still locked out smh

    It won’t sell out. Unlimited reservations: they will just ship them in order of the queue

  • Kr0niic ☘️
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    Jul 16, 2021
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    rhyming rhino

    This is gonna flop like all the other valve hardware

    "Another flop"

    The reserves extend into Q2 2022 and they haven't even opened up orders to everybody yet.

    First page looking real embarrassing right now

  • Jul 16, 2021
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    can you upgrade the ssd yourself?

  • Kr0niic ☘️
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    Jul 16, 2021
    LateForThat

    can you upgrade the ssd yourself?

    With this form factor best to assume no. Probably soldered on