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Have you upgraded your internal storage? How did it go? Did you reinstall steamOS from scratch or clone the original M.2/eMMC?

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[–] PrivacyBean@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I replaced my 64 gig with a 1tb sabrent rocket. The speeds alone are worth it no matter what. Going to desktop and back is like magic. I always install from scratch though, more steps for less hiccups is the way I always look at it

[–] shectabeni@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, I got the 512 and it's been enough for me just rotating as needs. I have played around with the SD card but don't usually play anything off of it.

[–] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I decided it wasn't worth it.

I bought the 256 GB deck. That filled up fairly quickly obviously and I looked at the alternatives. It turns out that if you buy the right SD Cards they're basically the same speed as the SSD, so I just bought a 1TB Samsung EVO and it's been great. Also, I didn't have to lose the existing 256 Gb of space that I had and it was zero effort.

Maybe one day I'll upgrade to a 2TB internal, or maybe I won't.

[–] rgamuffin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I got the 64gb because I want to upgrade the storage myself. I just need to get it.

[–] Spexor@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I upgraded my 512 to a 2tb sn740 by using an external nvme enclosure and rescuezilla to clone the original drive. Had zero issues.

[–] PinGZ@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Before even using the deck I updated it, pre-downloaded the steamos onto a usb drive.

The install was very straightforward, highly recommended the upgrade. My only regret is is didn’t get the 1Tb drive

[–] benzmacx16v@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly what I did. I went for the 1tb though. The storage prices for the deck are pretty outrageous and upgrading is pretty easy. So a 64gb deck + 1tb card comes out to be about the same as a 256gb deck.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Outrageous is a bit strong... There are companies charging way more than that for the same increase in storage...

[–] Madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Got ssd today and deck is coming tomorrow.

[–] Madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud 1 points 11 months ago

Update my deck is doing fine and happy to say replacing SSD wasn’t that bad :)

[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net -1 points 1 year ago

I'm definitely considering it. I keep running into issues with cache sizes.

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