The Steam Deck is usually a prime tier little bit of equipment, nevertheless it does have some flaws. One limitation is that it can solely assist a single 2230 M.2 SSD, which means the higher restrict of its storage is 2TB. Whereas that is likely to be sufficient for lots of people, it means these of us with massive Steam libraries have to select and select between our favourite video games. Properly, a brand new Steam Deck mod from Storage Overview has blown that out of the water by equipping a 61TB SSD in a couple of simple steps.
Regardless of the market turning into ever extra crowded, the Steam Deck stays among the finest handheld gaming PCs round. However storage is at a premium, with extra-storage fashions costing a number of hundred {dollars} greater than the bottom 64GB system.
Properly, Storage Overview’s Jason Ranous has managed to raised that by a number of orders of magnitude. They paired the Steam Deck with an exterior Solidigm P5336 61.44TB SSD, which boasts practically one thousand instances the storage of the 64GB Steam Deck, 238 instances the 256GB mannequin, and 119 instances the $649 512GB model.
Ranous employed an M.2 to exterior U.2 adapter and Icy Dock enclosure to attach the Steam Deck to the SSD, alongside an ATX PSU to energy the SSD. They then shorted the ability pin on the ATX connector “to be perpetually on, making certain a constant and adequate energy supply to the large (now exterior) SSD.”
Lastly, Ranous plugged a Re-Picture USB drive into the Steam Deck with an adapter, and voilà! The hand held instantly acknowledged the SSD and will make use of its mammoth 55.7TB formatted storage. In fact, that is hardly a sensible resolution when you’re taking it with you on the go, nevertheless it’s a really cool mod nonetheless.
Check out our greatest Steam Deck video games checklist when you’re on the hunt for a brand new recreation that may work nicely on Valve’s handheld. Or if you have already got loads to play, however don’t fancy giving this mod a go, take a look at our checklist of the greatest microSD playing cards for Steam Deck to spice up your system’s storage the conventional method.
