Hacking Which sd-card do you recommend

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Hey,

I would like to buy a sd-card to switch and wii u. It should be 128gb.

My goal is to use sdcard to hack both consoles and load backups from them. Is it ok if i buy the cheapest available? Does it matter if i use the adapter to make mini sdcardbto sdcard?

Some people have said that some sdcards are not compatible/or they do not work.

Could you guy recommend a specific sdcard, please. Thanks in in advance.
 

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Thanks for replies, will buy samsung evo plus! :)

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does micro sd card need trim support like a ssd does ?
because putting files and deleting files is that bad for a micro sd card ?
 

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Sandisk and Samsung seem to the the "top guys" but don't buy online, too many fakes. Go to a physical store and buy one you can return if fraudulent. Best Buy, OfficeDepot/Max, Micro Center, Staples, should all be safe. Sorry, dunno specific stores in other countries these are big ones in America I've bought SD cards from.
 

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Sandisk and Samsung seem to the the "top guys" but don't buy online, too many fakes. Go to a physical store and buy one you can return if fraudulent. Best Buy, OfficeDepot/Max, Micro Center, Staples, should all be safe. Sorry, dunno specific stores in other countries these are big ones in America I've bought SD cards from.
Even sold by Amazon isn't safe all the time, 3rd party fake cards can get mixed in with their stock. If you do buy one online, test it right away https://www.raymond.cc/blog/test-an...b-flash-drives-bought-from-ebay-with-h2testw/. Most people buy a 128 or 256GB card and don't fill it past it's real 4-32GB capacity until it's too late to return, or leave feedback on eBay.
 

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does micro sd card need trim support like a ssd does ?
because putting files and deleting files is that bad for a micro sd card ?

SD cards do suffer from the same issues as SSDs in that memory regions that have been written to previously must be deleted prior to writing. Trim allows this to happen in the background.

Trim is not a "thing" for SD cards and that behavior is handled internally in the memory controller of the sd card.
 
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I second Samsung Evo plus. SanDisk ultra A1 is cheaper but writing speed sucks .
I don't think you need much writing speed but better reading speed... Most ppl get around 90 MB\s continuous or just above 80MB\s read continuously...

And not all are related to the continuous sector speed, A1 has more iops and more life cycles as its specially made for internal data storage kinda to replace nand memory, it usually make a difference in loading apps even when compared to slightly faster SD, but by a small margin, they make a huge difference is on android when formatted as internal storage because of android encryption where a normal class 10 will completely ruin the performance after the encryption making the device super slow just on android menus it self...

Also I don't think you will get much better speed on the Switch as even the old class 10 with eshop games seem to get similiar to a way faster card and sadly Switch doesn't also support the faster UHS II and III speeds or else we could get something close to a SSD in speeds (its just compatible, but they will work as a UHSI SD as Switch and almost no devices have the extra pins needed for the faster types).
I got myself Sandisk 400gb last week, the card seems to be stable and I haven't experienced with speed drop so far.
That's just for the rich, something the size of a fingernail just to store data for the price of the switch.

Even if you are wealthy I don't recommend investing too much, specially because they either already made or are making a god damn 128TB SD (the bigger one), I'm sure they will keep increasing little by little and win a HUGE amount of money while they actually can make something already hundreds of times better and they also come with PCI-E controller built-in and capable of around 1GB\s, its more like a full SSD in a small SD.
 
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Are Switch title updates saved to the SD? Heard on a FB group that updates are saved to it, yet wouldn't it be internal.

This is using the TX dongle solution (still waiting for mine). Looking to get a 256gb sd to start with.
 
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