KILROY wrote:Yeah, the Quad Core is the Pi 3 version for $35, and yes, you will need an external Video source to run the graphics on. The on board video will not cut it. As for the HD, install everything on a Micro SD card and use that as the HD source
I would use a SD Card, however, I am going to also have a emulator for all the Arcade games, so I have to have something bigger. But I plan on using a Micro 256 SSD. Similar to what you would find in a Surface or something along those lines. I can get them up to 256gb for fairly cheap and they are a little bit faster than SD cards.
Well, it's up to you, but I use a 32 or 64 GB Micro SD and they work fine for the board to hold them and out of site. An SSD will work, but it's bulky and you will have to find a way to stash it.
KILROY wrote:Well, it's up to you, but I use a 32 or 64 GB Micro SD and they work fine for the board to hold them and out of site. An SSD will work, but it's bulky and you will have to find a way to stash it.
I am talking about the SSD that is on the end there. That is a actual SSHD and is about as big as your thumb
No, I'm familiar with it, but you still have to find a way stash it and hook it up, which means you either purchase a cable or a case with a cable, it's not like using a Micro SD that is 32 or 64 GIGS and as small as your pinky nail and it just slides into the motherboard of the Pi 3 and out of site out of mind
Which is true, but the thing is so small that it doesn't bother me to quickly make a little pocket for it in the table. I just need it to read faster than a Micro SD because it will have a lot going on when I have 2-4 people playing Super Mario at the same time on it. I need it to be as fast as it can be for the multiplayer aspect of it
I bought a 256 GB MicroSD card for my surface... I'm pretty sure it's false advertising, as it seems to actually hold closer to 2 GB, and also becomes unreadable quite frequently.
Sandisk and Samsung sell them up to 200 GB for about twice the price I paid for my 256 GB chip, which was dirt cheap.
It's not the size of the SD card that matters, it's the memory standard.
All Microsoft Surfaces support flash memory standards: microSD, microSDHC, and microSDXC.
When someone invents a new flash memory standard that exceeds 2 TB, it will not be supported by any device currently on the market, just like old SDHC readers won't read modern SDXC cards.
I used to sell them at a call center for Microsoft. Trust me they have limits on the expandable memory. I am pretty sure that those are the limitations. It might recognize all that space, but it will only use the allowed portion of it.
