A great price for an A2-rated memory card capable of 160MB/s reads.
Samsung’s Pro Plus memory cards areour top pick for the Steam Deck, so I thought you’d like to know that the giant 512GB cards are now down to £39.99 at Amazon UK, making it a good time to upgrade your Steam Deck game storage if you haven’t already.
This memory card came out near the top in our game load time tests, only behind the£62SanDisk Extreme. It managed to launch Aperture Science Desk Job in under 11s, whileShadow of the Tomb Raiderloaded in 16s exactly. Given that the Extreme memory card is only half a second faster if we average those two tests, I’d say paying around two thirds of the price for something a heartbeat or so slower is a pretty good deal.
The Samsung Pro Plus is a prodigious performer when it comes to raw speeds too, with up to 160MB/s reads and 120MB/s writes. It’s got an A2 rating for random speeds too, with corresponds to 4000K IOPS random reads, 2000K IOPS random writes and 10MB/s sustained writes.
Overall, the Samsung Pro Plus should offer strong performance in phones, tablets, action cams, drones and other devices too, in case you’re all sorted for Steam Deck and/or Nintendo Switch storage. This is the sort of memory card that will remain useful for years to come, which is always nice!
What do you think - too many Micro SD card deals recently? Notenough?!Let me know - and stay tuned for more PC tech deals next week!
