So relatively new deck owner.
Got a deal on a regular Deck for pretty cheap. I didn’t opt for the 1TB SSD or anything like that.
I know that it’s a pretty easy hardware replacement for the SSD or the SD card.
I just have a couple questions:
- Does the cloning process for the SSD require specialized tools?
- do you notice a huge performance improvement on SSD compared to SD card?
You want to upgrade the SSD.
I upgraded to a 2tb Corsair SSD (remember when you could just buy stuff? For reasonable money?). When I copied stuff over, I started out with the Corsair in an external enclosure. The card crashed during the copy, and I think the reason why is that these cards are dramless. They borrow ram from the host, and when you’re in an enclosure the “host” has no ram to give. What I had to do was put the new card in the deck, install a steamos recovery on it, put the old card in a reader, and copy in from there.
Uhh I’ll leave the details of copying to everyone else, but just know that writing to an external nvme enclosure can give you a bad time.
😮💨 man I wish I could get one of those small m.2 ssds at a reasonable price for my rog ally rn I didn’t realize it was only 512GB when I got it and the whole SD card reader issue really makes me think the nvme is the only way to increase storage