MiSTer FPGA Forum

mrtomato wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 5:46 pm 1TB are very overpriced - that way I could get 2x 512GB cheaper. I have 512GB and wondering if will be option to use IO Board's sd slot as additional storage, but I heard that it is not possible.

ZigZag wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 6:02 pm

mrtomato wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 5:46 pm 1TB are very overpriced - that way I could get 2x 512GB cheaper. I have 512GB and wondering if will be option to use IO Board's sd slot as additional storage, but I heard that it is not possible.

Get a tiny usb microSD reader for the other. I have one made for a keyring & it's a snug fit. Very handy.

redsteakraw wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2020 5:24 pm I saw elsewhere that a person has the top 300 best PSX games including multi disks and they fit on 165GB Double that for Sega CD and Turbo CD and you have 330 leaving 170GB for the rest and I would say you are fine with 512. You really don't need to cram the drive with crappy or bad games you will never play anyway.

ZigZag wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2020 12:10 am

redsteakraw wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2020 5:24 pm I saw elsewhere that a person has the top 300 best PSX games including multi disks and they fit on 165GB Double that for Sega CD and Turbo CD and you have 330 leaving 170GB for the rest and I would say you are fine with 512. You really don't need to cram the drive with crappy or bad games you will never play anyway.

And Amiga & AO486 HDD's and CD ISO's...

Cebion wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2020 7:21 pm Most people just use a external hard drive or a Nas.
My rom folder has about 2 tb on my Nas currently

Ashfall wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 2:07 pm Also, it's a good idea with any size SD card to organize your small rom files in zip files. One zip per system or subfolder or however you organize, for all those super tiny files less than 4kb each. It makes copying back and forth much faster.

Sorry to resurrect such an old thread.. but has anyone tried a 1.5TB MicroSD card in their MiSTer?

In particular I'm looking at the SanDisk 1.5TB Ultra micro SDXC UHS-I

Any guidance would be appreciated.

It should work but I don't understand why anyone would spend $200~ on a micro SD when you could buy a USB drive (even an SSD) in much larger capacities for far cheaper.

mrtomato wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 5:46 pm

1TB are very overpriced - that way I could get 2x 512GB cheaper. I have 512GB and wondering if will be option to use IO Board's sd slot as additional storage, but I heard that it is not possible.

I don't know about that was reliably able to get a Lexar play 1TB for $60-$70 using it for my steam deck. Will probably get one for the MiSTer but right now 512 is able to hold pretty much all the US Sega CD, Turbo CD, N64 , PSX and earlier console libraries, am out of space and made some compromises on the PSX but not much. Only don't have space for the saturn.

@bonko I'd assume so, my 1TB equivalent is fine.

@AngelicLiver Ease of transport and higher speeds than flash drives.

AngelicLiver wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 12:51 pm

It should work but I don't understand why anyone would spend $200~ on a micro SD when you could buy a USB drive (even an SSD) in much larger capacities for far cheaper.

Anyone who doesn't want a USB drive dangling off their MiSTer?

It's not that hard to understand.

Any storage method that MiSTer supports (SD card, USB drive, network share) has advantages and drawbacks.

I have been using a Amazon Basics 1TB MicroSD card in my MiSTer for over a year now and had zero issues. Still have a good 300gig free too
I picked it up cheap in the Black Friday sale that year

2TB MicroSD cards are being released now and for not silly money

It's not a knock, by all means go for it! There are pros and cons to all these solutions! I just think USB storage is a great deal more versatile and trustworthy; I've had so many high-capacity, "high-quality" cards fail over the years.

^ Agreed. For systems that the OS has to be on µSD, I learned a while back to use smaller µSD cards for the OS and store the data on large USB device. It saves an awful lot of headache.