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SanDisk MicroSD Express Review: Super-Fast Storage for Your Switch 2

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SanDisk MicroSD Express Review: Super-Fast Storage for Your Switch 2

If you care about raw throughput when picking a microSD Express card, SanDisk’s officially-licensed microSD Express Card for Nintendo Switch 2 may be the one to beat. I’ve been testing one for the last week, and in almost every test I threw at it, it outdid IGN’s current budget pick for the best Nintendo Switch 2 microSD Express card, the Samsung P9 Express.

The real question is whether that’s even worth paying for. MicroSD Express cards are already very fast compared to the older microSD ones still used on every gaming handheld that’s not the Switch 2, and it’s not even close. SanDisk’s card is demonstrably faster in many ways than competing options from PNY and Samsung, but unless you’re transferring game files back and forth between it and your Switch 2, you’re really not going to notice. Faster is better, but there are other things to consider, including price.

SanDisk offers its card in 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB capacities. I’ve found 512GB to be the sweet spot, giving you three quarters of a terabyte overall when you factor in the console’s internal 256GB storage. But SanDisk’s cards cost more than similar options from PNY or Walmart’s Onn brand.

When you’re looking at the specs for a microSD Express card for Switch 2, you can safely ignore the main throughput numbers that most manufacturers like to promote. In the case of SanDisk’s card, that’s 880 MB/s reads and 650MB/s writes, which is faster than almost all the other cards I’ve tested!


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