[Hardware] They create a specific SSD to expand the capacity of your Steam Deck

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If you have a Steam Deck, you will have found that you have wanted to put your entire collection of games already acquired on the Valve platform and you will have run out of space. What do you think of being able to expand its capacity to be able to load more games? Well, you can do it with Sabrent Rocket SSDs. What is special about them and why are they ideal for the Valve console and the like?

For us, one of the biggest design mistakes of the Steam Deck is the use of NVMe drives that require a PCI Express port to function, with very high consumption when transferring data. Which is nonsense when you consider that PC games these days still don't take full advantage of solid-state drives. However, the good thing about all this is that it allows you to expand the capacity or even replace our unit if it has broken without having to throw the console away.

Sabrent Rocket, compact size NVMe SSD
Many of us would like to be able to stream as many games as possible to our Steam Deck, however we find that the most expensive model has only 512 GB of storage and for many users that capacity may be limited. While Valve doesn't recommend opening up your PC in handheld console form to inexperienced hands, it's not entirely against experienced users tinkering with the device.

 

 

Well, Sabrent has announced a series of NVMe SSD drives that have been designed to be installed in the Steam Deck, since they are 30 mm in length, when normally M.2 drives of this type are usually 80 mm when installed. intended for use on conventional computers. In addition, another of its improvements is that they have all the circuits on a single side of the PCB, which makes it easier to install on the Valve console if we need to expand the capacity of our portable console.

In addition, they are ideal to be able to install in ultra-thin laptops with an M.2 port and that have very little available space. Therefore, the existence of these units is appreciated in a world where most of the SSDs that we find are of the 2280 type and are not prepared for this type of system.

What is your performance?
These new solid-state drives have received the name Sabrent Rocket and are compatible with the PCI Express 4.0 interface, so they can also be used in a conventional computer as long as it supports 2230 drives. As for their numbers, they are as follows:

Transfer speed up to 5 GB/s in sequential transfer.
It can reach 3.7 GB/s of bandwidth with random reads and writes with 4K data blocks.
Up to 920,000 IOPS.
Capacities of 256 GB, 512 GB and 1 TB.
We must start from the fact that the speed of the Steam Deck storage unit works between 2.4 GB/s and 3.5 GB/s, so these Sabrent Rocket are ideal for increasing the storage capacity of your laptops.

 

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