Surprisingly easier than I thought.
That’s rad. I know I’m gonna take the plunge at some point, but I might wait to bundle a few hardware swaps. Definitely my fan too.
What a drive did you go with?
Not OP, but I did this a few months ago with this drive: Micron 2TB 2400 M.2 2230 NVMe https://a.co/d/22cD4sp (Amazon link).
It was a little harder to find at the time, but looks like they’re just on Amazon now, and at an even better price than when I bought mine (it’s 19% off at the time of this comment). I highly recommend it. It’s been working flawlessly for me for months.
I just did this with this exact drive as well, so far so good 👍
This one.
INLAND QN446 2TB M.2 2230 SSD…
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9F65B21?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
Just did that a couple of weeks ago, myself! Bought the cheapest deck when it was on sale just recently. It’s kind of ridiculous how much space I have on there: 66 games installed, including chonkers like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Mass Effect Legendary Edition, and I’ve still got like 700 gigs free.
Get busy filling that bad boy up.
I have 0 regrets upgrading to 2tb. I now have a dual boot setup with windows taking 1tb and SteamOS taking the other 1tb, and then a 1tb SD card for the SteamOS side. Makes life sooooooo much easier, no longer having to play musical games for what I want on my deck. Can have a modded FO new Vegas list, modded morrowind list, and another couple dozen games with space to spare (ranging from Cyberpunk to terraria). And on the windows side, plenty of room there to play with my different server emulators, VMs and the like. It’s truly ideal and will give you substantially more freedom.
Have you had any issues with windows updates breaking your dual boot?
No - strictly because I gutted windows update via a Windows Lite tutorial. Basically it’s an evergreen Windows OS that I’m using, so I never have to worry about Windows messing the boot. SteamOS will sometimes bork it, but I use Clover as my dual boot solution and it’s fairly easy to recover.
The trouble with a stock Windows OS is the frequent updates, to the point of your question. I do believe there are ways to mitigate it, but does require a bit of prep and being aware of windows And its updates.
Still waiting for a good promo to update mine !
Were there any modifications you needed to make to the drive for it to fit?
This seems like something I’d love to jump into.
None. I just used the guide on iFixit but cloned the original drive with CloneZilla to make restoration easier. I did also buy a replacement EM shielding foil so I could leave the original one on the original drive.
Rad! Thanks for the info! I’m likely going to g to ask for my GF to buy me a drive for my birthday next month!
Why would there be any modifications required? Buy a 2230 single sided SSD and slam it in. 2230 is the physical size. 22mm by 30mm. Same applies to the retched 2242, and the usual 2280
I have seen quite a few posts of users physically cutting the bigger variants into the smaller one because in some cases it was just an extra blank PCB beyond that small size.
I think the reason was that it was cheaper than just buying a 2230 SSD.
A 2230 from Ali Express is very affordable. I’d definitely recommend that over any modifications.
Ewww
Ahh, I never knew that was a specific size. I haven’t bought an NVME drive like this before but read a few mentions of that need.
Many thanks for clarifying and steering me down the right path.
Have an excellent day, mate!
