Hacking Feedback Hardware Switch loadings got worse overtime on Sandisk

[coztfu]

For the last couple of months my switch has gotten worse when it comes to loading times.

It’s running on a Sandisk 512Gb Ultra A1 bought from amazon.

Ill provide the hekate benchmark and the info about the sd bellow. Please guide me if you can! Should I get a new SD? If so, which could prevent me from this happening again? It’s getting really frustrating waiting minutes just to get inside Cuphead.

 

[impeeza]

Is more likely your card is dying, try another card only with hekate and benchmark it, it the result is the same then can be a hardware problem. but I put my bets on the dying card.

 

[randy_w]

I had a sandisk ultra 512gb card behaving just like this. Emummc takes minutes to boot, game loading speed is very slow, did a read test in hekate and it's same as yours, 10mb/s. However the card behaves normally on pc, r/w speed test shows close to 100mb/s. Tried the card on my camera and it works fine too, recorded a 4k video for 10 minutes and no r/w error. Tried to format the card, still the same thing, swapped the card with a samsung one and switch's back to normal. No idea what happened.

 

[impeeza]

Can you please open a issue on hekate repository? Maybe @CTCaer can help you

 

[thesjaakspoiler]

Might the SD card be running in 1 bit mode?

 

[The Real Jdbye]

For the last couple of months my switch has gotten worse when it comes to loading times.

It’s running on a Sandisk 512Gb Ultra A1 bought from amazon.

Ill provide the hekate benchmark and the info about the sd bellow. Please guide me if you can! Should I get a new SD? If so, which could prevent me from this happening again? It’s getting really frustrating waiting minutes just to get inside Cuphead.

It might just be getting fragmented. Never defragment flash storage. It wears them out quick. It's safer to copy all the data off, format and put the data back on. Take care not to format your emuNAND partition.

 

[Deleted member 719522]

It’s running on a Sandisk 512Gb Ultra A1 bought from amazon.

Did you buy it from a reputable seller? It could be a low quality fake card.

 

[zxr750j]

I had same kind of issues and sandisk send me a new one (you can contact them online).

 

[coztfu]

Is more likely your card is dying, try another card only with hekate and benchmark it, it the result is the same then can be a hardware problem. but I put my bets on the dying card.

I’ve seen multiple people on reddit using the same card as me and facing/faced the same problem. I bought it just for this, never used it for anything else though

It might just be getting fragmented. Never defragment flash storage. It wears them out quick. It's safer to copy all the data off, format and put the data back on. Take care not to format your emuNAND partition.

But should that fix it? If this has fragmented this quickly im not entirely sure if I should format it and do all the troubleshoot to run into the same problem :/

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Can you please open a issue on hekate repository? Maybe @CTCaer can help you

I’ll make sure to do that!

I had a sandisk ultra 512gb card behaving just like this. Emummc takes minutes to boot, game loading speed is very slow, did a read test in hekate and it's same as yours, 10mb/s. However the card behaves normally on pc, r/w speed test shows close to 100mb/s. Tried the card on my camera and it works fine too, recorded a 4k video for 10 minutes and no r/w error. Tried to format the card, still the same thing, swapped the card with a samsung one and switch's back to normal. No idea what happened.

Thank you! I wasnt very sure if I should just format it and hope it wouldnt happen again. It would be a pain in the ass. Ill start checking for a new card either way. Might find some sweat deals during this time.

 

[LonePine]

The SanDisk red and gray TF card is said to use QLC storage chips. As time goes by, the read speed of data on QLC chips naturally decreases, so you may need to replace it with a better TF card.

 

[jkyoho]

The SanDisk red and gray TF card is said to use QLC storage chips. As time goes by, the read speed of data on QLC chips naturally decreases, so you may need to replace it with a better TF card.

If it behaves same on PC then probably your are right, but look few posts up you will see people having no issue on PC but on Switch runs slow

 

[impeeza]

If it behaves same on PC then probably your are right, but look few posts up you will see people having no issue on PC but on Switch runs slow

That´s why I recommend you to create a case on Hekate, may be a timing issue. if you provide the proofs on the hekate issue that will help a lot to @CTCaer

 

[LonePine]

If it behaves same on PC then probably your are right, but look few posts up you will see people having no issue on PC but on Switch runs slow

Yeah, maybe that's right. But when people copy the files from a card whose copying speed has dropped, it'll perform as it should again. This shows that the card itself isn't broken. Considering that SSDs have the ability to refresh old data by themselves, maybe for QLC SD cards, we should set it separately to make it refresh old data more often to guarantee the expected reading speed?

 

[Coolsonickirby]

If I had a penny for every person who ran into an issue on the Switch because they were using a SanDisk microSD card, I'd be a thousandaire.

(I always recommend to use either a Samsung microSD card or a Micro Center microSD card (been using the latter for around 6 years at this point and have not ran into a single issue, unlike my first SanDisk microSD card which corrupted my stuff after a month))

 

[impeeza]

If I had a penny for every person who ran into an issue on the Switch because they were using a SanDisk microSD card, I'd be a thousandaire.

(I always recommend to use either a Samsung microSD card or a Micro Center microSD card (been using the latter for around 6 years at this point and have not ran into a single issue, unlike my first SanDisk microSD card which corrupted my stuff after a month))

I had a 400 GB Sandisk (red/gold) for 3 years and never had a problem, since last 2 years I am using a Samsumb 512 but just because I got a very nice Amazon deal on it so upgraded.

 

[deeps]

sandisk cards are garbage, simply put. samsung always works better.

 

[ghjfdtg]

I can also vouch for Samsung. Any Samsung card including the Amazon branded ones will work fine in my experience. The hekate dev also doesn't recommend SanDisk but i think he did that for other reasons than reliability.