Looking at an x-ray photo of an SD card it doesn't look good... You could always try it as long as you have a way to pop it out. Or maybe in another reader?
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2023
8 points (83.3% liked)
Steam Deck
14862 readers
225 users here now
A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to the Steam Deck in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Wow, they really pack that stuff in there. Truly is amazing that such a tiny little piece of tech is hundreds of MB!
I'll try it in a normal-sized SD carrier card, but I think it's probably toast.
Thanks for those images, super cool!
I wouldn't risk it in anything expensive. Get a card reader that leaves the micro SD sticking out a bit, and try accessing it with that. At least then if it jams, it's only the cheap reader that you've lost.
Good call. Going to try with the expansion card thing it came with
For the record, it's toast.
It gets recognized by my computer as something, but it can't read the drive and it is unable to be reformatted or anything.
Bummer, but lesson learned. If anyone out there has a Deckmate, be careful with putting the SD cards in the slots and then having it in the steam carry case.
Looks like if you are lucky it might still be usable according to this diagram
I suppose there's no harm in trying to seal it up and give it a whirl
On a big SD card - 100s of Gbs like you'd use in a Deck - the silicon will go very close to the edge.
Even if it didn't though, the force put into the card might have flexed other bits and broken them.