alessandro to PC Gaming · 4 months agoSamsung’s new microSD card is faster than a SATA SSDwww.pcgamesn.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1141arrow-down12
arrow-up1139arrow-down1external-linkSamsung’s new microSD card is faster than a SATA SSDwww.pcgamesn.comalessandro to PC Gaming · 4 months agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-squareThavronlinkfedilinkarrow-up52·4 months agoThat’s interesting, but it will be bottlenecked in 95% of the cases right now by the connecting hardware, right?
minus-squareCort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·4 months agoYeah, it can’t even use the higher speeds offered by uhs2/3 since the additional contacts are pcie, instead of the uhs2/3 design. They’ll fall back to uhs1/v90 speeds which are like 10% of the max rated output for the card.
That’s interesting, but it will be bottlenecked in 95% of the cases right now by the connecting hardware, right?
Yeah, it can’t even use the higher speeds offered by uhs2/3 since the additional contacts are pcie, instead of the uhs2/3 design. They’ll fall back to uhs1/v90 speeds which are like 10% of the max rated output for the card.
Sounds very much like it.