Micro SD storage half

[cward12]

Bought a scandisk 256g card and after formatting it I only have 116g of space available on the deck! Why is half of my memory wiped out?

[crash_ override]

Maybe because you bought a ScanDick and not a Sandisk?

[Jake Sully]

If the storage was made into half. Then microsd you bought is fake. It's real storage maybe is 128GB not 256GB. There is even ones that claims to be 1TB but turns out to be like 32GB storage or so.

[cward12]

Got it from a retail store so should I return it?

[hup]

Did you format it on the deck or windows, linux?

[Man's Best Friend]

Originally posted by Jake Sully:

If the storage was made into half. Then microsd you bought is fake. It's real storage maybe is 128GB not 256GB. There is even ones that claims to be 1TB but turns out to be like 32GB storage or so.

You're not wrong on the existence of fake cards with lower than advertised capacities, but usually the fake ones still format to the "full" size. It's just when they start getting filled up that the trickery is revealed. This seems like a different issue.

I'd try examining the disk with gparted, or diskmgmt.msc in Windows to see what the actual partition structure is. Alternately before returning it, try to find one of those flash drive testers that actually writes to the whole drive to validate its size. Seems strange that the system would manage to validate and format a fake card when Valve added checks specifically to catch fake cards.

[Jake Sully]

Originally posted by HTTP Error 418: I'm a teapot:

Originally posted by Jake Sully:

If the storage was made into half. Then microsd you bought is fake. It's real storage maybe is 128GB not 256GB. There is even ones that claims to be 1TB but turns out to be like 32GB storage or so.

You're not wrong on the existence of fake cards with lower than advertised capacities, but usually the fake ones still format to the "full" size. It's just when they start getting filled up that the trickery is revealed. This seems like a different issue.

I'd try examining the disk with gparted, or diskmgmt.msc in Windows to see what the actual partition structure is. Alternately before returning it, try to find one of those flash drive testers that actually writes to the whole drive to validate its size. Seems strange that the system would manage to validate and format a fake card when Valve added checks specifically to catch fake cards.

It depends since steam deck checks for fake microsd card. It maybe didn't spotted this one as fake so instead of it formatting it's full size 256GB as advertised it's real space is actually 128GB so steam deck formated it down to it's real storage amount instead if 256GB. Just a guess I thought off