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Upgrade SSD or getting a big SD card? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 months ago by TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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So relatively new deck owner.

Got a deal on a regular Deck for pretty cheap. I didn’t opt for the 1TB SSD or anything like that.

I know that it’s a pretty easy hardware replacement for the SSD or the SD card.

I just have a couple questions:

Does the cloning process for the SSD require specialized tools?
do you notice a huge performance improvement on SSD compared to SD card?

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[–] RenardDesMers@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I'd say it kinda depends on what kind of game you play on your deck. I play a lot of smallish indie games and moat of them are on the SD card. I keep the ssd for when I want to play bigger games.

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah for sure, any 2D games or smaller games usually get installed to my microSD. But I usually don't want to install anything larger than a couple GB to the microSD just because it takes forever to install and update.

I should also mention that some larger games (ie Cyberpunk) specifically have slow storage settings, that will try to compensate for using slower storage like a microSD. It won't help with install/update times or general load times, but it will help some of the gameplay issues you can run into while playing.

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