So I want to purchase a SDxc card for the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo so far has just said it supports 2TB space but ive yet to notice anything about the speeds? Does anyone know what kind of speeds you need to run games? Would Class 10 / UHS-1 be ok? or buy a UHS-3 for gaming?
So Best Buy has a deal of the day going on today and they have a 64 Gb and 128 Gb on sale. Do you think they are fast enough? I have no idea on what anything means (Class 10 etc).
@MarkTrav82 I think class 10 should be enough, but we don't really know that until Nintendo actually tells us what the required minimum is, if there even is one at all. I expect that it'll definitely affect the loading times though.
@Pink_Floyd It depends on card. Class 10 means it reads at around 10MB/s. They go up to UHS Class 3, which read/writes about 30MB/s, but those are pretty expensive and are mostly used for 4K recording. I suspect that any SDxc will do the trick, but loading times will most likely vary depending on the speed class of your SD card.
I got a Sandisk Extreme Pro 64GB from Amazon, with 95mb/s speeds. Cost me £22 so not a bad deal if you favour speed over capacity. That'll take the Switch's storage up to around 90GB after the OS etc... More than enough if you going physical.
That's more for capturing live video where it's writing data for 4K resolution. For video games, any speed will do fine. Don't pay double for high write speed when all it would do is speed up saving games by a fraction of a second, and fast read speeds might improve loading by a fraction of a second.
Just so long as you're not using some ancient card with prehistoric read and write speeds, anything should work just fine.
I saw 128gb on Amazon for $35, 200gb for $75 and 256gb (largest microSD on the market currently) for $150
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That's more for capturing live video where it's writing data for 4K resolution. For video games, any speed will do fine. Don't pay double for high write speed when all it would do is speed up saving games by a fraction of a second, and fast read speeds might improve loading by a fraction of a second.
Just so long as you're not using some ancient card with prehistoric read and write speeds, anything should work just fine.
I saw 128gb on Amazon for $35, 200gb for $75 and 256gb (largest microSD on the market currently) for $150
Do you think I'll need to buy any cards if I'm not buying digital? Not sure if updates or something would take up space.
@KirbyTheVampire Maybe? Depends on where the Switch saves your save data, patches and general updates. As long as you don't need one, there's no reason to buy one. And they're cheaper down the road.
That's more for capturing live video where it's writing data for 4K resolution. For video games, any speed will do fine. Don't pay double for high write speed when all it would do is speed up saving games by a fraction of a second, and fast read speeds might improve loading by a fraction of a second.
Just so long as you're not using some ancient card with prehistoric read and write speeds, anything should work just fine.
I saw 128gb on Amazon for $35, 200gb for $75 and 256gb (largest microSD on the market currently) for $150
Do you think I'll need to buy any cards if I'm not buying digital? Not sure if updates or something would take up space.
Guessing from my Wii U experience some updates will probably need to be downloaded to the system directly. But still, if you that's all you need the storage space for you should be good. My Wii U storage space was never not enough.
That's more for capturing live video where it's writing data for 4K resolution. For video games, any speed will do fine. Don't pay double for high write speed when all it would do is speed up saving games by a fraction of a second, and fast read speeds might improve loading by a fraction of a second.
Just so long as you're not using some ancient card with prehistoric read and write speeds, anything should work just fine.
I saw 128gb on Amazon for $35, 200gb for $75 and 256gb (largest microSD on the market currently) for $150
Do you think I'll need to buy any cards if I'm not buying digital? Not sure if updates or something would take up space.
Guessing from my Wii U experience some updates will probably need to be downloaded to the system directly. But still, if you that's all you need the storage space for you should be good. My Wii U storage space was never not enough.
Sorry for bringing this tread back to life but I'm curious if anyone can confirmed if the speed actually matter? Do I better off getting Ultra High Speed, Phase I class 10 or Ultra High Speed, Phase II V10? I'm thinking of getting SD card right now because of sales on Newegg.
@Super_Gravy Digital Foundry did a loading speed comparison of carts vs. internal storage vs. regular MicroSD vs. fast MircoSD. The Switch doesn't appear to utilise the extra speed of a high performance memory card - so it's probably better to go for capacity over read/write speed 😎
Thanks! This is an answer I'm been looking for! You are right that its doesn't make any differences unless we are talking about in an long run then its a big differences! ;P
I knew internal storage is probably the fastest but didn't realized its be a couple of seconds differences. Also the carts are the slowest of all? Interesting...
@Super_Gravy Yeah, I thought that was handy to know too! ..a regular UHS1 is what they suggest (it actually performed slightly better than a higher speed UHS3 for some reason?!) - but at least expanding your memory needn't be as expensive as many feared
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