Nostremitus
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While that may be true, there is actually a worrying trend that I see people often overlooking. Read speeds on MicroSD aren't comparable to SSD, like not even close. They're more inline with mid-performing HDDs (and that's the better ones). Then there's the question of the mediums reliability over the course of an entire gen (especially so for those who are planning on going all-digital for Switch and will be reading / writing constantly to it).
If I do end up getting a Switch myself, I'll almost certainly go physical and buy a capable sized MicroSD for patches / dlc. Then again, there's the question of Switch cartridge read / write speeds as well, which is currently unknown. Those tests should be interesting.
your SSD is a lot faster, an OS on an SD card is not going to be pretty.
Not sure why you responded to claims I didn't make in my comment, but ok...
I'm fully aware of bandwidth and IOPS differences between the two and would never use a Micro SD card for an OS drive... But then, I also wouldn't want a full SSD in the Nintendo Switch because I want it to be light and be able to stay powered on long enough to actually play a game. SSDs use more power than MicroSD and if one had been squeezed into the Switch the battery would have had to be smaller in order to accommodate it...
I was speaking mainly about the amount of data stored on such a small medium.
I went with a Class 10 MicroSD card so it should be fine as far as gaming is concerned.
Crystal Mark says the card I chose has around:
Sequential Read : 45.710 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 40.874 MB/s
So it should be just fine for playing portable games.