There's not much to review for anything solid state besides the speeds and feeds, so I'll get them out of the way first. It seems to have a 0.5-1gb write cache, after which write speeds fall off a cliff to 30MB/s, read speed seems to be about 90MB/s, no cache or other limits.
The card is somewhat compact, but it has a slight bulging cover on the backside, where presumably the extra space is needed - it still fits inside my steamdeck. It gets hot during long, sustained write operations, and I hear that high temps is good for NAND flash (not the controller, mind, but the flash media itself), so that's not entirely a bad thing.
For game hoarders like me who are using a steamdeck, I strongly recommend putting the deck in desktop mode when you're downloading large games. You can configure the device to wait an hour before going to sleep, or wait indefinitely if it's plugged in - so you don't burn in your OLED display or just get the download interrupted by sleep mode.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Response from SanDiskBy SM OLS, December 27, 2023
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