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?

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
    35·
    8 days ago

    It’s mostly unscrewing covers and peeling stickers, if you can get a good savings that way I believe it’s worth it.

    MicroSD also is really not bad if you pick a fast, deck tested one. Lots of my non-primary games are stored there and still load acceptably for me

    • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      4 days 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.

  • Nicht BurningTurtle@feddit.org
    10·
    7 days ago

    Yes. You just have to copy your existing system to your new drive. I used dd for this. Afterwards resize your storage partition (the largest one) on the new drive. I used gparted for this for it’s simplicity.

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
      7·
      7 days ago

      if you don’t care about the content of the drive (just steam games and everything in steam cloud), you can basically just reinstall steamOS with the official image

    • nocturne@sopuli.xyzOP
      8·
      8 days ago

      Yeah, I was watching the video. The first thing that gave me pause was the, “drain battery to 25% as a charged lithium battery puncture can bee dangerous.”

      And then I hate having to use the guitar picks to pry open stuff.

      That said, I used to build my own computers. I have installed new SSDs in both of my ps5s. But it is not something I do often.

      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
        6·
        7 days ago

        Honestly, you can half ass that shit. As long as you don’t go hacking away at everything you’ll be fine.

        Just remember to remove the SD before opening!

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    7 days ago

    As others have said the microsd card is fine.

    But if you plan to use the steamdeck in desktop mode, the internal drive can fill up kind of quickly with random stuff.

    I thought it was easy enough to replace, but I used to be a computer tech in my old life.

  • tiberius@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    8 days ago

    I paid for the 1 TB model but it should be simple enough to upgrade the SSD. Think of it as a learning experience.

  • Owl@mander.xyz
    6·
    7 days ago

    1. Yes, it’s totally worth it.

    2. –>

    Get good small screwdrivers !!!

    That’s very important ! The general consensus is that the ifixit ones are fit for the task.

    • Oniononon@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Ifixit seems to be exception to the rule that states anything popular brand for people who are not in the field is actually garbage.

  • Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org
    5·
    7 days ago

    Yes, well worth it.

    I see all the important tips in the comments apart from doing it with a discharged battery.

    I had no issues when I did mine.

      • Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org
        5·
        7 days ago

        It’s a precaution. If you were to damage the exposed battery it could cause it to heat up and probably catch fire.

        You do no want a lithium battery fire in your house.

        If you’re going to do it make sure you have enough time to do it all in one go so you don’t have to leave the back off.

        It’s not a long task, I think setting the blank drive up afterwards took longer than the actual drive swap