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WD unveils massive 2TB SSD for Steam Deck and PC handheld owners (www.pcgamesn.com)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some advice: Avoid all WD/Sandisk SSDs like the plague.

SanDisk Extreme SSDs are “worthless,” multiple lawsuits against WD say

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I’ll wait for the crucial ssds no thank you

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yoooo no thank you I don't wanna buy anything WD for the foreseeable future.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What was their blunder, I must have missed it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This comment links it: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/450116/-/comment/2312264

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I swap the main SSD, is the only option a complete wipe and reset? I'd like to keep various settings and how I've customized the desktop over the year+ with my 64GB deck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Don't have a steam deck, but what I used to do on Linux when upgrading drives is just dd the old drive over. Sure it's inefficient as hell, but with pcie 4.0 speeds You're looking at 20 min to make a byte-for-byte copy of your old 1 tb drive, which you can then extend your partitions to make them bigger.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nowadays just using cat to clone drives is almost always faster

[+] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I’m the target market. With Steam I keep everything I ever played on my current PC installed forever, or until I run out of disk space and have to triage.

I don’t like to triage.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Example of a game that works nicely on the deck, and is giving me a great portable replay (other than the EA Launcher): Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

Size of that game: ~110GB

Also, personally, because of the slightly shonky WiFi download speeds and that I use it offline/whilst travelling a lot, I leave a bunch of games on there just in case I fancy them.

To me, more space would be good. I am unsure I'd need 2TB, but it would solve a lot. I've also got a few hundred gigs of other launchers (battle net) and ROMs on my SSD currently that are less easy to manage than Steam installs... again, the larger drive would just lighten the worry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah but ME LE is actually 3 huge AAAs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They really should have had them as "free" DLCs for a base game so you could install and uninstall them individually more easily. They are at least separated out into folders that you can just move to some slower secondary storage like a USB drive to free up space of ones you aren't currently playing then move them back when you want to play those games and it'll work fine, but an official way to do so would have been nice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If you have slow internet and a few games that have 100+ GB you don't want to delete anything if possible. I bought myself a 8tb hdd last year to move games there if I don't play them and the ones I actively play stay on my 1tb nvme.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

What am i installing?

Whatever the fuck I want. What kind of question is this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My household had multiple people who use the Deck. I upgraded to a 1TB (plus the 512GB SDCard) which is enough for now but games ain't getting smaller in size

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Steam Deck can play more than steam games. I usually keep about 30-40 Steam games installed, but most are really light little games for casual play with just a couple of large AAA games at any given time.

But outside of Steam, the Deck can emulate up to PS3 and Switch games. And theres not really a good cloud-based solution without having to switch into Desktop mode. So I have my usually about a dozen PS2 games, one or two PS3 games, and my whole PS1 library on the Deck. Then every couple months I'll go into Desktop mode and delete what I've beat and copy over new games from my gaming PC.

I'm also not a dock user. Maybe I would be if I didn't have a gaming PC, but for me the point of using the Deck is to not be attached to anything. Otherwise an external HDD might help. I'm thinking about eventually building a NAS: I'm not sure if I could have games live there and still playable on the deck though?