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Windows is Now Officially Supported on OLED Steam Deck
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I guess it's nice of them to release the drivers but that still won't make it a good experience. They should have designed the deck to use full length nvme so you could get bigger drive sizes and not feel like a dual boot leaves no room for games. Not that I would do this or recomend it, yuck.
I use a 2TB Kingston SSD through the USB-C port. All the Steam Deck stuff stays on the internal drive, Windows 11 on the Kingston.
https://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/xs2000-portable-usb-c-solid-state-drive
There are also docks that support NVMe:
https://jsaux.com/products/m-2-docking-station-for-steam-deck-hb0604
That kinda makes it not very portable. However, it's true that you can get short high capacity drives. They're just a bit harder to find.
Is that faster than loading it on a microsd card? That's how I currently boot windows on my steamdeck, but it's a little slow to load and initial loads for some games can be painful.
Yeah, the MicroSD slot is around 100mb/s:
https://www.polygon.com/deals/22938610/steam-deck-best-sd-card-micro-storage-price-speed
USB-C is anywhere from 5 Gbps to 20 Gbps. Not sure what standard the Deck supports, but even the slowest is 625 to 2500 mb/s.
Thanks, I'll have to take a look into that, I can definitely tell the microsd struggles (and it would free up my microsd slot for extra steamos storage).