Poorfag here. Is it a good idea to play games on PC via microSD

Huh? How is that cheaper than a used hhd?

>>62134190
So long as it's mostly read operations it should work okay-ish? But you'll probably have worse load times than with a regular HDD for certain titles.

>>62134190
Depends on what you plan to play. Emulating any sprite based vidya should be perfectly fine. NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, maybe some DS games shouldn't be taxing on a Micro SD card. Probably most PC games from before 2005 should be fine I guess. Why are you resorting to an SD card?

>>62134190

Buy a used HDD or SSD you will be glad in the long run

Anything less than a few hundred MB will probably be fine. It's not a great idea though as SD cards have shitty low powered controllers and terrible wear leveling. Don't expect the card to last long (more than a year) under a heavy R/W load. Also it'll be slow as fuck.

You're better off with a standard sized usb 3 flash drive. They tend to have more consistent performance.

>>62134214
In the sense that I already own said microSD card, i guess.

>>62134235
Oh, I can live with that

>>62134252
Basically, my laptop has an 120gb SSD and has only ~5gb left (I use pretty much everything I installed on it). Since I have an spare 32gb microsd card, i was wondering if using it for that would be doable