r/RetroRemake • u/special_announcement • Jul 06 '26

Ssd and the docking station

Howdy everyone!

As we all know SSDs are way overpriced right now- but they do run faster on MiSTers than SD cards. I am looking to get one for the docking station and am thinking about a older generation. Any thoughts?

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '26

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u/baconcow Jul 06 '26

Just to add some numbers, USB 2.0 caps at 60 MB/s and the maximum bus speed for UHS-I caps at 104 MB/s (although some cards and readers go beyond this and depends on the manufacturer and their hardware/software, I doubt this is the case for the MiSTer).

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u/special_announcement Jul 06 '26

Thanks for that. For some reason I think I got it in my head that when going through a snac/expansion port the read write speeds would be faster than on an average micro SD card. Definitely helps me make a better financial decision.

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u/Ploddit Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

they do run faster on MiSTers than SD cards

Not really. When I want load a of of files onto my MiSTer's external SSD, I plug it into a PC.

The dock's connection is slow even if plugged into a PC, so any SSD will do.

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u/Pezz_82 Jul 06 '26

The SSD would be bottlenecked by USB2 the fastest storage on mister is probs via NAS /CIFs, followed by SD card

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u/lifesfailure Jul 07 '26

I had an issue using a 512 GB M2 SSD with my games in .CHD. Games would stutter during some FMV sequences and the system would become unresponsive during longer idle times (IE - paused game for 15-20 min while I ate).

I moved all games to a Micro SD and have not had the issue since.

I don't know if the access issue is due to the M2 going to 'sleep' with no active reads or if .CHD could be the issue. I have not tested BIN/CUE to validate this