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Considering their prices, I'd say none. I'd rather buy 128GB cards right now, as they cost about 1/5th of a 400GB or 1/7th of a 512GB card. A 128GB microSD card costs only about 20€, but a 400GB about 100€ and a 512GB card about 150€ right now, so neither of those are really worth it.



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This, it is by no means expensive for that sweet 512GB of storage:

https://www.amazon.com/PNY-Elite-MicroSD-Card-P-SDUX512U3100PRO-GE/dp/B07KD4XJLX/ref=sr_1_9?fst=as%3Aoff&qid=1565496392&refinements=p_n_feature_two_browse-bin%3A13203835011&rnid=6518301011&s=pc&sr=1-9

Or this for only 36.99 256 GB:

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-MicroSDXC-Adapter-MB-ME256GA-AM/dp/B072HRDM55/ref=sr_1_1?fst=as%3Aoff&qid=1565496569&refinements=p_n_feature_two_browse-bin%3A13203835011&rnid=6518301011&s=pc&sr=1-1



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I'd buy two of the Samsung 256s mentioned above, if I wanted a lot of storage.



dx11332sega said:
Teriol said:

This, it is by no means expensive for that sweet 512GB of storage:

https://www.amazon.com/PNY-Elite-MicroSD-Card-P-SDUX512U3100PRO-GE/dp/B07KD4XJLX/ref=sr_1_9?fst=as%3Aoff&qid=1565496392&refinements=p_n_feature_two_browse-bin%3A13203835011&rnid=6518301011&s=pc&sr=1-9

Or this for only 36.99 256 GB:

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-MicroSDXC-Adapter-MB-ME256GA-AM/dp/B072HRDM55/ref=sr_1_1?fst=as%3Aoff&qid=1565496569&refinements=p_n_feature_two_browse-bin%3A13203835011&rnid=6518301011&s=pc&sr=1-1

I like 512gb though, it works on Switch correct? Do you have this one?

I would strongly advise against a PNY product when it comes to data storage, I've had run ins with them in both SD card and portable HDD's which were trying to recover files for customers because of failures in the drive. Product has just a 4 star review on Amazon as well with a lot of complaints about failure, keep in mind 4 stars on there means 4 good reviews to 1 bad but people who get a bad product are about 20 times more likely to leave a review so the balance of failed to good products isn't 4:1 but probably more 80:1 ... but that's still rather bad compared to Sandisk or Samsung SD cards failure rates.

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-400GB-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B074RNRM2B/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3DLR9OBJ51V9A&keywords=400gb+micro+sd+card&qid=1565498052&s=gateway&sprefix=400%2Caps%2C224&sr=8-3

That's the SD card I use in my Switch, It's slightly more costly per GB since you're getting 400 rather than 512 but 19k reviews landing at 4.5 stars going with the 20 to 1 good to bad reviews you're talking about 180:1 failure rate so you've less than half the chances to get a bad card from Sandisk

The 256GB samsung listed there was what I used before moving to the 400gb, it was a solid card as well but with games ilke Doom, DCU, Warframe, Resident Evil Rev 2 and a few more ranging between 20-30GB per title you really should consider getting the larger card and you wont be deleting and redownloading software all the time if you want tons of games.



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I bought this one back in January. Works great. Lots of space but I have so many digital games that it's full already. Highly recommend.

SanDisk 400GB Ultra microSDXC UHS-I Memory Card with Adapter - 100MB/s, C10, U1, Full HD, A1, Micro SD Card - SDSQUAR-400G-GN6MA https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074RNRM2B/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_x25tDbWSE9FJ0



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d21lewis said:
I bought this one back in January. Works great. Lots of space but I have so many digital games that it's full already. Highly recommend.

SanDisk 400GB Ultra microSDXC UHS-I Memory Card with Adapter - 100MB/s, C10, U1, Full HD, A1, Micro SD Card - SDSQUAR-400G-GN6MA https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074RNRM2B/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_x25tDbWSE9FJ0

That's 2 votes for this card in this thread after 1 hour :)

Speaking of full SD cards... did you see the size of DCUO? It finally got me to remove Doom2016 from my SD card which I've finished a bunch of times but will go back to when a Switch pro appears because I would love to see that game on handheld where it could lock to 720p more often, those dynamic res titles are going to be great when beefier hardware lands some time next year.



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they're quite nice and rather cheap now considering that a year or so ago a 400gb card was well over 100dollars, I would just advise you also buy a USB3.0 SD card reader with a decent rating on amazon if you're going with this card because you'll probably want to shift over all the games you have on your current micro SD card and then build on top of it and you can just copy paste the entire SD card directory from the card you have onto a folder on your PC and then from there onto the new card with no issues (in my experience)

If you haven't changed the SD card in your Switch before the one thing you should know is that you don't have to worry about your save files for the games, they're all stored in the Switch storage itself, so even if you completely fuck up transferring files or if you're too lazy to bring over the old cards games all you will be losing is the game files and the pics / videos that you've captured in games, those are likely to be stored on the SD card if you took more than 1k screenshots as that is all the base unit can store of pics before going to SD card for them.

I'm off to bed though, if there's anything else you're asking regarding shifting SD card on the Switch I'll check back in tomorrow and see if I can help more. :)

edit - https://www.amazon.com/UGREEN-Reader-Portable-Adapter-Windows/dp/B0779V61XB/ref=sr_1_7?crid=3A2UKQB54VBWI&keywords=usb+micro+sd+reader&qid=1565500543&s=electronics&sprefix=usb+micro+sd%2Celectronics%2C215&sr=1-7

It was one of those I used to shift my old SD card contents to the PC then onto the 400GB card.

Ugreen do some nice small little things which the Switch works well with, they've got a USB Lan adapter as well that costs around 10e and works great to get a wired connection with the Switch when it's in dock or with a USBC to full USB adapter you can even use Wired ethernet while playing in handheld mode.



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I also have that same 400GB Sandisk MicroSD card inside my Switch, and it works perfectly fine. My own benchmark shows a 95MB read and over 50MB write, which means it’s more than enough for Switch’s internal SD reader. So don’t overspend by purchasing the Extreme/Pro/Elite variants of these MicroSD cards as your Switch’s bus reader cannot take advantage of of the extra performance provided by those higher-end Micro SD cards.

Do realise though that this same card was priced at less than $45 in the US around less than a month ago during Prime Day, and I suspect it will go even lower during Blackfriday week in the US. So if you’re not in rush, then I’d say it might be better to wait until then.



mZuzek said:
dx11332sega said:

amazon or other websites knockoffs that lie about there gigs when you actually try them?

I'm pretty sure it's not really a lie. There's a reason why the SD cards never give you as much space as advertised, but it's a technicality I don't really understand either, I just accept it. But yeah, there is no SD card in the world that's going to give you as much storage as it says on the box, they only ever come somewhat close to it.

First of all, I found on Amazon plenty of real knockoffs and fakes. If you get a 512GB SD-card for 20 Euro (so maybe around 25 Dollar) you should not trust in it. It is very easy to produce a card that has about 100MB or so but the controller advertises 500 GB (so that is shown in the Operation System), but in reality saves your stuff over and over in the memory.

But what you talk about are the prefixes. SI defines prefixes like Kilo ( k ), Mega (M) and so on. But Byte is no SI-unit. So in early computing the SI-prefixes were used, but instead of 1000 for Kilo for instance, it uses the power of two that is close, namely 1024. To avoid confusion, the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) proposed to add a bi to the first syllable of the prefix-name (for binary), so Kibibyte (KiB) or Mebibyte (MiB). Anyways, if operation systems show you MB or GB, they usually mean MiB or GiB. But producers of mass storage quickly realized they aren't technical lying, if the use MB and GB as SI defined it. The difference can be quite big.

SI unit value difference IEC-unit value
Kilobyte (kB) 1000 (10³) 2.4% Kibibyte (KiB) 1024 (210)
Megabyte (MB) 1,000,000 (10⁶) 4.9% Mebibyte (MiB) 1,048,576 (220)
Gigabyte (GB) 1,000,000,000 (10⁹) 7.4% Gibibyte (GiB) 1,073,741,824 (230)
Terabyte (TB) 1,000,000,000,000 (10¹²) 10% Tebibyte (TiB) 1,099,511,627,776 (240)

The left is what companies use to advertise, the right what your operation system usually shows. So 400GB advertised are shown in operation systems as 372.5 GiB.

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Don't buy a 512 GB card, they are overpriced (per GB) to the 400 GB cards.


Don't buy an ultrafast "A2" microSD-card (f.e. SanDisk Extreme)... the money you pay for the extra speed is wasted in a Switch. An "A2" SanDisk Extreme ain't faster in a Switch than an "A1" SanDisk Ultra.

I wouldn't recommend using more than one microSD-card in the Switch. 2 x 200 GB aren't cheaper than 1 x 400 GB. And even if they were slightly cheaper on sale, you have to completely power down the Switch to change them, standby ain't good enough. Updates and DLCs for your cartridge games could also be on the wrong card or you have to download them to both cards.

Just buy a 400 GB SanDisk Ultra for $50 - $60.