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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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

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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.

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

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Yeah, a certain fruit company comes to mind.

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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.

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While game loading times are about the same, I definitely notice a big speed difference when installing games on the SSD vs microSD.

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Thought about it but it was honestly pretty easy to throw a 512gb sd card in and cheaper. Plus most if not all of the stuff on the deck is saved in the cloud not a big deal if it fails.

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Yeah most games that work on the deck will be fine coming from a modern microsd card. Even Skyrim really would be fine. I’ve read reports that upgrading to some drives is causing too much heat, and tbh as much as I love tinkering - deck is perfectly made IMO. I’ll just swap out cards, even then I haven’t really needed to.

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I’ve been considering it, but tbh the 256+400GB SD card has been more than enough so far.

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