A questionable design decision has lead to dead SD cards and media readers on ASUS’ gaming handheld.
We’ve still got our ASUS ROG Ally handheld system, and we’re still using it on occasion to play a game while standing in the kitchen waiting on food or while covered up in cats on the living room floor. Something we’ve run into a couple of times is that the microSD card, where many of our games are stored, will stop appearing to the device, requiring a system reboot and re-insertion of the card.
We chalked the issue up to our unit being a pre-release model, but it turns out, plenty of purchasers of retail units have plowed into the same issue on their ROG Ally systems, too. Several users have posted on the official ASUS ROG forums that their ROG Ally’s microSD card reader has either quit working or in fact killed the SD cards installed into the system.
Now, ASUS has acknowledged the issue, and it’s exactly what users feared: a hardware problem. However, the issue doesn’t lie with the ROG Ally’s SD card reader, exactly, but rather with its placement in the system.
