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That's assuming the games are writing to the SD cards and not the SSD though, right? If this is Debian/Arch OS, I'd assume they are writing to a system folder.
by minsc__and__boo 5y ago
That's assuming the games are writing to the SD cards and not the SSD though, right?
If this is Debian/Arch OS, I'd assume they are writing to a system folder.
- onlyrealcuzzo 5y agoNo - those are random READS - not writes. If the game is on the SD Card - it will be read from the SD card. Sure, if the game needs to randomly write data to disk (I assume this is much rarer) - then it would write to the system SSD as usual.
- minsc__and__boo 5y agoGot it. So SD cards are optimized for large, continuous file reads, not varied file reads.
- onlyrealcuzzo 5y agoI'm not sure that's what they're optimized for. I think it's more of just that's how the technology works. It's the same way I wouldn't say that film is optimized for storing lots of data with horrible access cheaply. It just happens to be what it is.