Amazing Steam Deck SSD replacement sees huge price cut that actually makes it a bargain 

If you’ve been looking to replace your internal Steam Deck SSD – which you should definitely do to make those annoying shader caches a thing of the past – then you’ll be happy to hear of this amazing deal. 

After a couple of years of minor discounts, one of the best Steam Deck SSDs has seen a massive price cut that have you spending just pennies per gigabyte. 

2TB Steam Deck SSD hits historic low 

The Samsung SN770M 2TB SSD is currently available on Amazon for just £119.99. The PCIe Gen 4.0 small form-factor M.2 SSD is a perfect fit for Steam Deck and will give you tons of storage for all of those expertly acquired retro roms and ISOs. 

With a max speed of 5150 MB/s, it is admittedly slower than the full-sized SN7100, but it’s the perfect speed for what Valve’s beefy handheld can muster. 

Of course, as a small M.2 SSD, the Samsung SN770M 2TB will also work just fine on other gaming handhelds such as the ROG Ally and the Lenovo Legion Go. However, with Windows handhelds, you will have to acquire a USB enclosure to clone your current drive if you want to keep your operating system. 

For the Steam Deck, you will have to make a bootable USB stick with the Steam Deck OS on it to install your OS after swapping the SSD. Yes, you will lose everything unless you clone your SSD, but at least all your saves are in the cloud? For the most part. 

Replacing your Steam Deck SSD will give you slightly faster loading times and loads more storage. Before grabbing a new SSD, I was constantly butting up against storage issues with my 512GB modem mostly due to shader caches and all of my Halo: The Master Chief Collection mods. Simply put, using the Deck becomes a lot more seamless when you have almost four times the space to work with. 

One final word: if you’re using a 64GB Steam Deck model, please upgrade your SSD. I can’t imagine what you’re going through.

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Lewis White

Lewis White is a veteran games journalist with a decade of experience writing news, reviews, features and investigative pieces about game development with a focus on Halo and Xbox.