I’ve seen the argument that it will take games longer to download and install on an A1 card vs and A2 card, but I really don’t care about that since you only need to do it once and then it’s done. If it impacts game performance on the other hand that would be a problem. Some people are going to say that I should just get an A2 card just to be safe, but I’m thinking about grabbing the 1.5tb sd card and that only comes in A1.
A1writes at 1500iops and reads at 500iops. A2 writes at 4000iops and reads at 2000iops. This is for random access, which will affect games. Some games more then others. I’m my opinion, you should get the A2.
The only card I’ll use in my Decks are the SanDisk Extreme class card. I’ve benched so many cards and it is simply the all around best card and has a lifetime warranty. I dunno if the 1.5 card has that - but I would go SanDisk Extreme 1tb - there WILL be good deals on it in the next 7 days (always is during Black Friday/Cyber Monday).
I asked this question before, and I got the same kind of responses, with no one having actually tested the card themselves. Like you, was wondering what the actual real world experience is once the game had downloaded. Yes, downloads would be slow, patches would be slow, but what would the game play like?