The essence of this unconventional amalgamation lies in its absurdity. We chose the Solidigm P5336 enterprise SSD, offering a staggering 61.44TB capacity. While the capacity is amazing, it leverages an enterprise U.2 form factor, which is problematic given the Steam Deck’s M.2 slot. As such, an M.2 to external U.2 adapter from NFHK was employed as the bridge, paired with an Icy Dock enclosure to hold the drive.
Unnecessary modifications of the steam deck that make stationary? I could not resist posting this here ;) My question to all the steam deck fans out there: Would you be able to fill this 60 TB beast with games?
The problem with that is more download speed, imo. Yeah, you can only play 1 game at a time, but if it’s going to take you a day to install another game, why not have a few? And then ofc different games satisfy different needs. Like you can have a long JRPG, a shooter you’re playing with your friends, a casual indie game you’re working on.
You can only play one game at a time, but that doesn’t stop you from playing multiple games over some days
Now you can enjoy five terabytes of updates each time you turn the deck on. Isn’t that nice?
Steam has an update schedule so only updates a couple games at a time unless you force the updates.
More frequently, I boot the Deck and immediately start a game so it has no time to download anything, and then put it to sleep when I’m done playing. So when using what I would expect to be the standard use case, the deck downloads nothing at all ever until I actually take the time to wake it up and then let it cook for an hour or two, or manually force an update on a game I want to play but can’t because there’s an update out.
I find it hard to believe that Valve expected people to just keep their Deck sitting around with the screen on for multiple hours doing nothing but updating. My Switch downloads updates on sleep mode when plugged into power. The PS5 and Xbox do it. The PS4 did it. Why can’t the deck at least have a toggle option for it?
Doing it the PS3 way could be the least complex option: just auto turn on 30 seconds to check if there’s updates every day, download if needed. On the deck it would also require a power check (just don’t if it’s not plugged in) and a further check if it’s a connection marked as having limited data. Still a decent solution imo.
This is what my point is. You don’t need 60 TiB of games on a device.