Topic: What Size Micro SD Card Is In Your Switch?

how many people swap between more than one SD card? how do you find managing or keeping track of that SD card has what games on it

for those with the 400GB card how much of it is shown as usable when you put it in you Switch?

256. More than sufficient for now, but I’ll probably upgrade to 400 one day.

@ValhallaOutcast you loose about 30-40 gigs when it formats to Nintendo. I could be wrong as it was some time back when I installed it. Still waiting for the 1tb and 2tb sdcards.

@SwitchForce : That isn't what happens at all.

There's a scummy industry-wide practice where, for the purposes of labelling the capacity of a storage device, manufacturers calculate each kilobyte as being equal to 1000 bytes (an actual kilobyte is 1024 bytes), which makes it appear as though there is more storage than advertised, so we get shortchanged by 24 bytes per kilobyte. For example, my "200GB" microSD card is in reality, a 186GB microSD card (give or take).

Similarly, a 2TB hard drive will only contain 1.85TB of storage. That's 185GB less memory than advertised!

Consumers merely acquiesced when this practice was introduced, hence why we are in this situation, and with video game customers being more and more receptive to scummy practices, we get shortchanged more as each day passes as publishers find new ways to rip us off and/or produce lesser quality products.

EDIT: I said "scummy-wide" instead of "industry-wide".

@Silly_G then those whom voted scum into congress to short change the CPB should look in the mirror. Because they voted them in and caused this mess instead of helping the consumers but worked actively against the CPB instead. My brutal .02 truth.

It is a scummy practice. I recently realized that my 160GB iPod Classic is really a 148GB iPod Classic.

I just bought a second 200 gb card for $35 on Amazon. I still have some space on my current card. So we’ll see how it works out managing two different cards.

400 GB

@Silly_G
Not as bad as WiFi. WiFi is advertised with the theoretical total bandwidth across all radios both UL and DL. The higher end enterprise brands don't but the consumer brands certainly do.

For context the highest end access point I know of costs about $1400AU, the price of a decent spec, decent brand 55" 4K TV. It's the only access point I know of that actually needs and has a 10Gbps Network port. And because they know their market they post benchmarks, not made up numbers. 2Gbps total UL throughput with 100 clients, 940Mbps UL+DL throughput with a single client. That's what $1400AU gets you.

..... so you don't even have to know the benchmarks to know those "1.2Gbps" routers for $100AU are full of it

I've got a 64 gb card in right now, but am looking to get a 128 gb one, probably in November.

Ok, after installing my hard copy of Wolfenstein, I definitely would suggest starting with nothing less then a 128, preferably a 256 or more right off the bat just to save time, day 1 started with a 64mb, have had to do transfers, delete's, backups..

Mine is a 128GB

@FaeKnight if you are eShop you should get closer to 400gb instead the price paid for it will pay off in the long run. The prices won't come down that soon for higher microsd cards.

@SwitchForce It's not "what would be ideal", it's "what fits within my means". Paying up to $80 for an SD card, er, ouch, but guess I can afford it. It'll basically be the only non-essential thing I can afford that month though. Paying $130-$200 for one? Uhm, that would likely cut into things like my grocery budget, or require me to save up for 2 or 3 months. Possibly both.