no, I just checked.
UPDATE: After reformatting again (this time in 32Kb Cluster size) and copying the 50GB to the SD card again, it now works. Strange.
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yesterday my brand SD Card (SanDisk Ultra 64GB) lost its partition table. I was able to copy all the files via recovery tool back to the SD card after formatting it again in FAT32. Now the 3DS does not recognize the installed games and contents. my home menu shows up empty. homebrew works...
UPDATE: just to confirm my initial statement... Today I grabbed my dusted o3DS and noticed long loading times on the games that were installed on a quality SanDisk 16GB Card. I refreshed via DiskFresh (took a while!) and tested again. Loading times were reduced by factor 4. So if you plan on...
Thanks for all of the contributors to the thread. To conclude:
Please check your data once in a while. Especially on your "cheap" and "dirty" SD Cards (DS/3DS/WiiU/Switch/PSP etc.).
They will get slow until they become unreadable (data loss).
For me the SD card got very slow within 12 months...
That is a common issue for all NAND flash based storage devices, unfortunately. I am wondering why there are not more switch users noticing this. it exists and is reproducible.
it is a genuine card according to h2testw.
also data was read multiple times. game still was slow as hell. loading times up to 4x slower than usual. after re-writing it was OK again.
quite the opposite. I agree that it is unknown to most users, but the fact that data is volatile even on NAND flash is proven fact and slows down most devices that do not have wear leveling or refreshing algorithms in their firmware. which obviously holds true for SD cards.
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I should have added: you might NOT notice the degradation in speed when you are not using it to its full potential. since DS games are only a few MB small, there is no way you will see loading speed increase as significant as on switch (or at all). on switch there are huge amounts of data that...
no, that was another system and has nothing to do with the topic. Evo 840 is the same technology the switch uses. and SD cards, too. it is all NAND Flash memory.
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It has never been about "errors". It is about the data being read slower because of degradation in the gates. they cannot...
you are getting things wrong. it is not about the age of the SD cards. it is about the data on them. if data is old, it becomes slow.
just test reading it completely and you will see.
Only thing drive me crazy is all these new horror games nowadays is its so dark, all time. I can't even play them. I understand they trying to create spooky but be creative a little, not just darkness with pop out scare scenes.