@monorail You might have a game running off the SD card without even knowing it, too; I wouldn't be surprised if game data gets stored to the SD card, especially DLC or updates, but save data and cache too. The Switch cartridge is abysmally slow for cartridge type media.

Nov 22, 2018, 15:01 · · · ·

**mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓** @monorail@glaceon.social · Nov 22, 2018, 15:12

**mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓** @monorail@glaceon.social · Nov 22, 2018, 15:12

Nov 22, 2018, 15:12

mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓 @monorail@glaceon.social

@Rosemary i'd assume it mostly uses the internal storage for that unless the game is specifically installed to the SD card, since (i believe) you can run games fine without an SD card?

also i'd be slightly annoyed if it was using my SD card for a cache, they don't take infinite writes >:(

**Rosemary** @Rosemary@awoo.space · Nov 22, 2018, 15:14

**Rosemary** @Rosemary@awoo.space · Nov 22, 2018, 15:14

Nov 22, 2018, 15:14

Rosemary @Rosemary@awoo.space

@monorail The internal storage is very small.

I didn't mean cache in the proper sense. I just couldn't think of any other word for it; data installed to the system because the program knows in advance it's going to need that data a lot, and shouldn't read it off the card every time. Not dynamically-allocated cache, but compile-time allocated installed data.

**Rosemary** @Rosemary@awoo.space · Nov 22, 2018, 15:14

**Rosemary** @Rosemary@awoo.space · Nov 22, 2018, 15:14

Nov 22, 2018, 15:14

Rosemary @Rosemary@awoo.space

@monorail If I remember right, we weren't able to play Xenoblade 2 when we first got our Switch until we put in an sd card.

**mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓** @monorail@glaceon.social · Nov 22, 2018, 15:16

**mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓** @monorail@glaceon.social · Nov 22, 2018, 15:16

Nov 22, 2018, 15:16

mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓 @monorail@glaceon.social

@Rosemary oh, perhaps i am mistaken

**mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓** @monorail@glaceon.social · Nov 22, 2018, 15:14

**mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓** @monorail@glaceon.social · Nov 22, 2018, 15:14

Nov 22, 2018, 15:14

mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓 @monorail@glaceon.social

@Rosemary ahh i see

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