The Steam Deck is a surprisingly versatile machine. As we’ve seen, it’s even used in theaters of battle to pilot army drones. However, it’s a console able to dealing with an enormous storage capability: 61.44 TB to be exact!
A Steam Deck with a 61.44TB professional SSD… And it really works!
Clearly, the operation carried out right here just isn’t supposed for on a regular basis use, no, it’s for the exploit that it was executed. What’s extra, the ensuing DIY operation is something however sensible, because the console must be related to an ATX energy provide – briefly, a contented mess.
But to maintain issues easy, a Solidigm P5336 61.44TB SSD was related to the console. To obtain this, the SSD was mounted in an Icy Dock M.2 to U.2 adapter. The adapter is then related to an ATX energy provide to offer energy to the SSD, which, as a reminder, consumes extra energy than the console itself. Then it’s on, and it really works.
Tests have been carried out to see the speeds achieved. In this case, we’re speaking about 3.6 GB/s in learn mode versus 2.8 GB/s in write mode. As a reminder, the SSD, on paper, achieves 7 GB/s for studying and three.3 GB/s for writing. The purpose for such restricted speeds is the console’s PCIe 3.0 interface.
As a reminder, in observe, Steam Deck is restricted to 2TB SSDs. This is because of the M.2 2230 format, whose capacities don’t exceed 2000 GB.
