Comment on Valve May Start Selling Refurbished Steam Decks Soon - Steam Deck HQ

Chronic_AllTheThings@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• bhj@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have a 64gb with a large sd card. My recommendation is to get a 256gb. You will feel space starved with installing different versions of Proton, the shader cache(?), and the emulated Window’s user folders.

  If you get the 64gb you basically have to get an sd card. If you get bigger then you might not ever have to if you play relatively small games and you don’t mind managing installed games.

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  • Chronic_AllTheThings@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, that would be the plan. I did the same thing with my Switch and it just automatically uses it as additional storage without any fuss. Does the Steam Deck do the same thing?

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    • Rossel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, but shader caches always go to the internal memory, so that will fill even if the gatnes themselves are installed to the SD card.

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• Rossel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I got the 64GB and swapped the SSD for a bigger one. It was painless.

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  • Chronic_AllTheThings@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh right, is it just an m.2?

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    • Rossel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yup. Standard 2230 M.2

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      • MSids@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Check me on this bit I think specifically it’s a single sided 2230. They made some caution about dual sided 2230 because of clearance or airflow.

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      • Chronic_AllTheThings@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Perfect, thanks!

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