WARNING: SteamDeck Destroyed My 1TB SanDisk SD Card

[skunkybomont024]

WARNING TO ALL STEAMDECK OWNERS / FUTURE OWNERS:

Deck fried my $180 micro SD card on a normal bootup of the deck. Valves repose was that I bought an illegitimate card. I told them it was not illegitimate and worked perfect until one bootup it was unrecognizable, and upon restarting the device it could not be repaired or formatted on the deck.

I then formatted it on PC, no luck repairing on steamdeck. I format it on Mac, still gives the same error that it can't be repaired / formatted.

Moral/TL;DR Steamdeck ruined my $180 micro SD card to the point of no return on any device.

Good luck. I hope it doesn't happen to anyone else, because telling the consumer they bought a fake card and doing nothing is highly unethical. I'm not a haply consumer. Be careful all; I did nothing out of the ordinary to have this happen.

[Mahjik]

引用自 DooMsDaYRangeR：

引用自 Mahjik：

This is not 2004. "Many" things have changed since then.

That is not entirely true. Read my post before this one.

Actually it has.. Windows used to try and cache large amounts of data like they do for HDDs on SD cards. This caused a lot of corruption because people were pulling them out and the cache never completed. They made OS changes for SDs to write it's cache rather than keeping it like a connected storage device like a HDD. They did add the "eject command" which also does a flush but pretty much all writable data is written immediately now rather than cached due to users pulling out cards too quickly.

[Mahjik]

引用自 element109：

Since there is no indicator on the Steam Deck in Gamemode to determine whether the card is in use, it is inevitable that you will eventually take it out and have data loss/corruption.

It's pretty lightweight OS. It's not like Windows where it has a mind of its own even when you aren't using it. If you aren't downloading or launching a game, you should be good to go. However, as I mentioned, just put it into sleep mode, change it and remove it from sleep mode if you are concerned. No need to go to Desktop Mode.

[Poison Dart Frag]

引用自 Mahjik：

引用自 element109：

Since there is no indicator on the Steam Deck in Gamemode to determine whether the card is in use, it is inevitable that you will eventually take it out and have data loss/corruption.

It's pretty lightweight OS. It's not like Windows where it has a mind of its own even when you aren't using it. If you aren't downloading or launching a game, you should be good to go. However, as I mentioned, just put it into sleep mode, change it and remove it from sleep mode if you are concerned. No need to go to Desktop Mode.

You gotta keep an eye on automatic updates though.

[Mahjik]

引用自 Poison Dart Frag：

引用自 Mahjik：

It's pretty lightweight OS. It's not like Windows where it has a mind of its own even when you aren't using it. If you aren't downloading or launching a game, you should be good to go. However, as I mentioned, just put it into sleep mode, change it and remove it from sleep mode if you are concerned. No need to go to Desktop Mode.

You gotta keep an eye on automatic updates though.

Game updates are easy to see. Just check the Download menu.

[Poison Dart Frag]

引用自 Mahjik：

引用自 Poison Dart Frag：

You gotta keep an eye on automatic updates though.

Game updates are easy to see. Just check the Download menu.

Other than pre-scheduled updates, there s no countdown for when an update starts though...

[Mahjik]

引用自 Poison Dart Frag：

引用自 Mahjik：

Game updates are easy to see. Just check the Download menu.

Other than pre-scheduled updates, there s no countdown for when an update starts though...

Is there a chance that you look at the Download menu and the 'few seconds' between when you look and eject the SD card, something starts downloading? Possible, yes. Likely, no.

Let's not hyperbole this to death.

[GoreTiger]

I can confirm the last update fked around with SD cards. Downloaded that starfield hotfix update from last night, turn my deck on today and everything on my SD card was wiped. Thankfully it didn't destroy it tho.

[RatchiiPulledouta Rachetuponthee]

well mine is ♥♥♥♥♥♥

ppl called it bricked

how do i revive the card

[jr.creations]

引用自 skunkybomont024：

WARNING TO ALL STEAMDECK OWNERS / FUTURE OWNERS:

Deck fried my $180 micro SD card on a normal bootup of the deck. Valves repose was that I bought an illegitimate card. I told them it was not illegitimate and worked perfect until one bootup it was unrecognizable, and upon restarting the device it could not be repaired or formatted on the deck.

I then formatted it on PC, no luck repairing on steamdeck. I format it on Mac, still gives the same error that it can't be repaired / formatted.

Moral/TL;DR Steamdeck ruined my $180 micro SD card to the point of no return on any device.

Good luck. I hope it doesn't happen to anyone else, because telling the consumer they bought a fake card and doing nothing is highly unethical. I'm not a haply consumer. Be careful all; I did nothing out of the ordinary to have this happen.

I dont know why you paid so much for that card, since I have a 1tb sandisk extreme and just paid a litle over 100 dollars.

And I have abuse this card heavily, over and over and over again. And nothing has happened.

So I understand why they suggested that maybe you bought a fake micro sd.

Also cards go bad for unknown reasons, all the time, on all devices. So the title is a bit inflammatory. Since this happened only one time and again micro sd go bad all the time. There are so many variables that can happen and you cant blame it on the steam deck because you had a bad experience.

Is what you are saying is true, you will be able to duplicate the same result and other ppl will be able duplicate the same results. But I havent seen any videos about this subject.

[Poison Dart Frag]

引用自 Azee siapa ?：

well mine is ♥♥♥♥♥♥

ppl called it bricked

how do i revive the card

If it s just basic filesystem corruption, could be solved by just reformatting the card. (reformat on the Deck if you wanna use it there, IIRC Windows doesn t offer the option to format in the system that performs better on the Deck)

Please note that doing that will erase all contents in the card. If you had anything important there you wanna have hope of recovering, don t plug the card into anything at all and look for a good data recovery service.

[64 slices of American Cheese]

Has OP tried formatting the drive using cmd in windows?

[B0NK3R5]

引用自 davidb11：

引用自 Catovitch：

I wouldn't assume that just because it's from Amazon it's not fake. Amazon is full of fake stuff these days, and they mix stock from different suppliers so there's no good way to avoid it. The company just doesn't care and never does anything about it.

Don't make up stuff about Amazon. LOL.
It's not cool.

Its not made up. It is a known fact that Amazon mixes stock and buying "Sold and shipped by Amazon" does not guarantee authentic merchandise. If you want an authentic card, do not buy from Amazon.

[TheForestSpirit]

I'm using a 1TB Sandisk Micro SD for my Steam Deck OLED 1TB and no issues. I'm sorry this happened to you but it sounds like a bad card to me.

[Turbo]

Use F3 utils to test your card: https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3