A valve employee has taken to Twitter to warn against modding the Steam Deck's M.2 drive with a physically bigger SSD.
Steam Deck Designer Warns Against SSD Mod : Read more
Steam Deck Designer Warns Against SSD Mod : Read more
Forgive me if I'm assuming incorrectly, but you think this is a bad thing? Designing with components to allow expansion would make it more expensive. Most users will never mod the device and won't even think about its internals beyond changing the SD card, so you'd be asking them to pay a higher price point for functionality they won't use.Translation: We designed the Steam Deck to be as inexpensive as possible, using components which just meet the design spec to increase profitability and eliminate the possibility that end users can improve the device, thereby enabling us to then release a "Pro" variant with the upgrades end users desire and charge a premium.
Do you even know what the steam deck is?!Translation: We designed the Steam Deck to be as inexpensive as possible, using components which just meet the design spec to increase profitability and eliminate the possibility that end users can improve the device, thereby enabling us to then release a "Pro" variant with the upgrades end users desire and charge a premium.
Translation: We designed the Steam Deck to be as inexpensive as possible, using components which just meet the design spec to increase profitability and eliminate the possibility that end users can improve the device, thereby enabling us to then release a "Pro" variant with the upgrades end users desire and charge a premium.
This is basically every successful companies motto since the beginning of time.Translation: We designed the Steam Deck to be as inexpensive as possible, using components which just meet the design spec to increase profitability and eliminate the possibility that end users can improve the device, thereby enabling us to then release a "Pro" variant with the upgrades end users desire and charge a premium.
As a Steam Deck owner, I can tell you first hand you have no clue what you're talking about, sorry.You see it your way, I'll see it mine. When I read words to the effect of a certain component gets too hot because of its design and the M.2 connector wasn't designed to deliver adequate power for larger drives, that says to me it was designed and built to a price, especially when you consider they charge $120 to upgrade from 256gb to 512gb of storage. Why should they design it to be upgraded for half that (SK Hynix Gold P31 500GB $62 or Intel 670P 512GB $50) when they can design it in such as way that it costs twice that to upgrade, officially or otherwise?
Every manufacturer does this, be it a mass market item like Nintendo or a flagship class cellphone like the Galaxy S22 series, both of which faced lawsuits and investigations, Steam is no different.
Translation: We designed the Steam Deck to be as inexpensive as possible,
If they hadn't designed it for modularity, they'd have storage soldered in - it's even cheaper, easier to cool and even easier to glue thermal pads on. This is a design compromise to allow some modularity while still reaching targets of compactness, cooling and power usage.You see it your way, I'll see it mine. When I read words to the effect of a certain component gets too hot because of its design and the M.2 connector wasn't designed to deliver adequate power for larger drives, that says to me it was designed and built to a price, especially when you consider they charge $120 to upgrade from 256gb to 512gb of storage. Why should they design it to be upgraded for half that (SK Hynix Gold P31 500GB $62 or Intel 670P 512GB $50) when they can design it in such as way that it costs twice that to upgrade, officially or otherwise?
Every manufacturer does this, be it a mass market item like Nintendo or a flagship class cellphone like the Galaxy S22 series, both of which faced lawsuits and investigations, Steam is no different.
Even though SD cards are technically slower, we found in testing that the SD card solution is perfectly adequate, and frame rates are identical to running games on the internal M.2 drive
Nobody needs their whole steam archive on the deck, and if they do let them pay for it.I think you're missing the point. There's no SD card that has 2tb..and even if there is, it'll be very expensive. Atleast with SSD, you can get a sata m.2 and get 2tb at a lower price...
Nobody needs their whole steam archive on the deck, and if they do let them pay for it.
It's a portable system, decide on the games that you are actually going to play and live with it, at least that's what I would do instead of risking damaging my deck.
I have to ask: what games are using 250GB of space that can run in the Steam Deck? Keep in mind most games that depend on intrusive DRM locks are not supported by the Deck because they just don't run in Linux at all.Except the problem with that is that games have massive file sizes. 2TB is pretty much needed to store atleast four AAA games...
Ark:survival is about 300Gb and is deck certified and also was free some time ago.I have to ask: what games are using 250GB of space that can run in the Steam Deck? Keep in mind most games that depend on intrusive DRM locks are not supported by the Deck because they just don't run in Linux at all.
Regards.
That's seriously a lot XDArk:survival is about 300Gb and is deck certified and also was free some time ago.
But yeah, that's a huge outlier, most AAA games are around 50Gb (bluray console size)
@DavidC1 The biggest problem I had in my answer was finding the peak power draw so list maximum idle power but that was about it.
Rather a bad place to put your charging IC right next to your SSD.Their engineer is also saying the charger IC gets hot and it looks like it's right next to the SSD. So if you put a bigger SSD there it'll go on top of it and potentially block airflow.
Also something about the heatspreader?
Peak power draw isn't often listed and we don't know the exact specs of the default SSD. It's also a Gen 3 device. In your link the 3 SSD sizes all show about the same bandwidth so power draw will be similar.