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Steam Deck

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[–] danwardvs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I have a thought, coming from Raspberry Pis that use a microSD card as their main disk. People would report that heavy usage of an SD card would wear it out, particularly writes. Does Steam or the OS do any writing to the disks while playing from them? If so, unless you’re downloading new games, mounting in read-only mode might extend their lives a bit. Again, just a thought and maybe it’s not an issue since it’s primarily reads being done, or maybe it’s crossed your mind already.

[–] yesmeisyes@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I work in a store that sells computer parts and we do pretty many sd card warranty replacements where the customer states that it was used in a steam deck and died in less than a year of use. So in my view the cards dying is true.

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