SD cards! Whats the best for retro pi and why?
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Hi guys. Just putting together my first ever retro pi machine and im reading mixed messages about what sd card to use on assorted sites. Im using a pi3 for my project. Any body out there who can give me some tried and tested avice would be very appreciated. Cheers!
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I've got a SanDisk 32gb(class 10) in mine. That's fine.
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@addyb Sweet. Do you have your roms on the SD card?
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Not at the moment. I only managed to get it setup just before bed last night so currently on a usb stick.
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Here's a list of tested cards that should work fine. I've always used the SanDisk Extreme Plus but most of the major manufacturers work fine with exceptions noted in the link.
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imho buy a 4 or 8 GB SD-card and load roms on USB - will save much work
Speed doesn't matter :)
class 4 cards can also be used :)The Retropie Systems need just 2,5GB Kodi and so needs a bit of space. So you have 1,5GB for database, swap..... believe me
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@cyperghost Thanks for your input. i was looking at getting the biggest card i could but now i think i will take your advice. You have just saved me over $100. Are HDD any good for rom storage? I have 100's of Gigs of roms.
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@Urkle Read ahead here :)
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2582/can-my-usb-device-have-data-on-it-already/
Read the thread carefully there a some ways descriped how to access your HDD with the RPi.I think it's always better to keep roms and systems sperate, because if you update the system via image file you have always to save your roms/savegames to external device and then you have to write them back.
That's no problem if you have a unix system on your PC but well 95% use a Microsoft system and the easiest way for such users is to use samba shares and that's annoying slow :)So use a HDD... attach via USB to your RPi... and you're happy with...
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consider to use a NAS if you have tons oft ROM data.... Whatever you want :)
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