how long does it take to transfer like 400gb of roms from the steamdeck internal storage to a microsd
i was gonna make a thread all gushing like gee whiz that was easy, you literally just press Y to format the card and then click Migrate and even a luddite r-slur like me was able to figure this out, another massive dub for deckchads
but then i clicked Migrate about 20 minutes ago and
LOOK AT THE PROGRESS BAR 
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ITS NOT EVEN GOING ALPHABETICALLY WHY IS IT DOING IT IN THIS RANDOM ORDER AAAAAA
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lil bub
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The Steam Deck only supports UHS-I cards, which have a write speed of about 30 MB/s, so it should take around 4 hours.
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Actually it might be considerably more than 4 hours if there's a lot of small files.
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There are thousands oh my frickinf god i have complete libraries of everything from like NES days to PS2 😭
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Deckcels stay losing
over PCcels
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huge W
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I can do all 2?
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My pixelshit indie ludos deserve a 3090, 128 GB of RAM and a 32" 4k monitor
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Shit you are neurodivergent.
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Just spend 4 hours installing a larger ssd instead.
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The cuckification will continue until morale improves
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SD cards are shit tier technology only used by phonestrags and raspberry pyshitters, who deserve it
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What's a better way to expand memory
I know literally nothing about hardware
But a little thing you can just stick in a hole to increase memory many times over seems solid to me
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Don't let the nerds bully you into some convoluted hardware mod. For retro games, you don't need blistering read write speeds. SD card is fine.
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Swap the drive
out if you got the poorcel version
That might be beyond
you tho so I wouldn't do it unless 
you know how to use a screwdriver
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I got the most expensive one lol
512 ssd I think
The drive is fine I just wanted more space for even more old gaymes :(
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You can get more space
with a different 
drive. Up to 8tb I think?
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The problem is it's a 2230 length (not full size 2280. and those cap out at 2TB right now. Plus the one it comes with only has chips on one side of it, idk if that's a limitation but depending on how tightly it's squeezed in there a two-sided drive might not fit.
He could still double it to 1TB at minimum though
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only for stuff like photos or music, no way you'll be able to play games off it that are big enough that moving them off the device makes sense
And they're so unreliable that as backup they don't make sense either since they die so fast
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Steam deck has an iFixit score of 7/10, so if you want more storage, check out their guide.
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roms get heavy quick for home consoles, but faster speeds aren't really needed since they ran on CDs/shit cartridges which have abysmal read speed
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napkin math says 4 hours
(google says sd card can go about 30mbps)
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https://a.co/d/apKNIyn
It's this
Is this slower or faster
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if you're lucky, make that 1 hour
if you're not, die or something idk
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you are fricked
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You're not going to be able to use it today sorry
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Everybody saying 30 is being optimistic. If it's on a usb2.0 bus, your card reader is going to be writing in the 20-25 range
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Did you buy some cheap microsd? They can be very slow
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I didn't understand the Steam Deck modders until I saw the corners that Steam cut on the Steam Deck to make it affordable.
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You should pick up one of these btw, just got mine and tested out, works great for charging while playing so you don't have the cord awkwardly poking out the top, doesn't quite solve the lack of room to charge it while in the case but still quite handy
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH9NT3F5
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It's a real g*mer move
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Merry Christmas Carp
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depends on the transfer port model.
It should be listed in your steamdeck specs.
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That's a lot of data
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if the files are on your puter, transfer them from there?
it does seem weird that it would take that long.
put on a mobie or smth in the meantime
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They're on the deck lol
I've now got the thing propped against a wall with the case holding the right joystick pushed so it won't go to sleep
Hopefully it's finished before I go to bed tonight because my dumb butt set this up on the bedroom floor and it was a huge pain and I don't want to have to rejigger it in another room
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Oh.
yeah i guess in the future just keep backups on the computer.
then do transferring there.
then you can just delete shit off the deck instead of having to move it.
Like the port on the steamdeck is prob just slow. That's why its not going the speed the thing is rated.
Like how some usb ports are usb2 or usb 3 or thunderbolt
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