Western Digital now sells SSD upgrade drives for the Steam Deck and ROG Ally
Western Digital now sells SSD upgrade drives for the Steam Deck and ROG Ally
Western Digital is backing handheld gaming.
DO NOT BUY WD AND SANDISK they are their reputation is horrid
Ok...so what do I buy?
go to ebay and search kioxia 2230
Kioxia is pretty good
never had a single problem with a wd disk
they literally have a class action against them lmao
Wasn't Western Digital just slammed for making piss poor ssd cards?
Buyer beware.
PRAISE JEBUS
had a bitch of a time until grading some Lenovo laptops because of this shit form factor. Glad to see someone is finally making something to upgrade them. Not we just gotta stop laptop manufactures from soldering ram to the mb.
How long ago was that? There are suddenly a lot of 2230 drives available this year, I assume because of the Steam Deck. WD wants a piece of that pie. 🤤
Sabrent released their Rocket 2230 in December 2022, I believe they released their rocket q version a few months ago. I believe Samsung has 2230 drives as well but I think they're oem so idk about performance...
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Western Digital is launching its new SN770M NVMe SSD, designed specifically for devices like the Steam Deck and ROG Ally.
The small M.2 2230 form factor drives will be available in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB options, allowing handheld gamers to significantly upgrade their storage.
Replacing the SSD inside a Steam Deck has always been relatively easy work, but finding M.2 2230 drives hasn’t always been quite as easy.
These smaller drives aren’t typically sold to consumers and are usually found inside Dell and Microsoft Surface laptops instead.
Sabrent, Micron, Corsair, and others sell M.2 2230 drives, and Framework even started selling its own 2TB upgrade drive earlier this year.
Western Digital entering this market is a good sign for handheld gaming, particularly with quality drives that offer speeds of up to 5,150 MB/s based on PCIe Gen 4.
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I bought a Corsair one a couple of months ago and it's been a godsend. The Deck even got notably faster for example when switching to desktop mode.
Love it.
Awesome. More competition means economies of scale and the potential to get the price down at some point.
A lot of this storage doesn't need the physical space (shown by people literally cutting down PCBs before there was real availability), so just the volume of the SKU should help a lot.