News Hardware hacker tries to run NVMe SSD on the Switch 2 but fails — adapter doesn't light up NVMe SSD controller but could work in the future with mi...

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YouTuber Better Gaming tested a MicroSD Express adapter to see if they could expand the Switch 2's storage with a 1TB NVMe SSD. The test failed, but further development of the adapter suggests this method of storage expansion will work in the future.

Hardware hacker tries to run NVMe SSD on the Switch 2 but fails — adapter doesn't light up NVMe SSD controller but could work in the future with mi... : Read more

 

[John Nemesh]

Pretty funny how hard some people are working to make obsolete hardware somewhat usable. HINT: Just buy a handheld that already has NVME and emulate Switch! Your games will run at higher frame rates, with PROPER VRR support on a screen that has low enough latency to actually make it matter...oh and Nintendo won't be able to brick your hardware if they don't like you!

 

[hwertz]

Pretty funny how hard some people are working to make obsolete hardware somewhat usable. HINT: Just buy a handheld that already has NVME and emulate Switch! Your games will run at higher frame rates, with PROPER VRR support on a screen that has low enough latency to actually make it matter...oh and Nintendo won't be able to brick your hardware if they don't like you!

I mean it's weird to refer to a brand new handheld as obsolete, but you're not wrong it really is obsolete out of the box.

 

[hwertz]

Yeah I don't think this would work even in Linux -- SDcards (and most likely SD Express) would show up as a /dev/mmc device and nvme as a /dev/nvme device. So some hard wired script looking for your /dev/mmc device to show up will never see one. Whether the switch has nvme drivers or not it's likely not looking for one to show up.

Will they fix it? They should, it's not like Nintendo is selling these cards. But I won't be surprised if they simply don't bother.

And if whoever is working on adapters anyway, it might be nice to make one to allow regulard sd cards. I know a few games won't be happy about the speed but many are just Switch games which are designed with this speed of storage in mind. (I don't have a Switch or Switch 2 though so...)