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Finally decided I think I am going to get a Steam Deck. Decided to look at upgrading the hard drive, it is a little more compacted than I thought it would be. For those who have swapped, was it easy enough?

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[โ€“] ticoombs@reddthat.com 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Looks easy : https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Steam+Deck+SSD+Replacement/148989

Edit: Is it worth 30-60minutes of your time, the screwdrivers, maybe the spatchula, and reinstalling steamOS onto the drive?

[โ€“] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 1 points 7 hours ago

Little pro-tip - I got a Corsair drive and tried putting it in external enclosure to copy to it, that didn't work.

These small Nvme drives are dram-less, so they borrow some memory from the host system. All of these drives have a fallback mode when they can't borrow host memory, which is slower. Apparently, the fallback mode is so well programmed that drive can crash during large write sessions.

It worked just fine once I put the new drive inside the Deck, and pulled data from the old drive sitting in the enclosure instead.