Solving Steam Deck Shader Storage with a 61.44TB SSD
storagereview.com
The essence of this unconventional amalgamation lies in its absurdity. We chose the Solidigm P5336 enterprise SSD, offering a staggering 61.44TB capacity. While the capacity is amazing, it leverages an enterprise U.2 form factor, which is problematic given the Steam Deckβs M.2 slot. As such, an M.2 to external U.2 adapter from NFHK was employed as the bridge, paired with an Icy Dock enclosure to hold the drive.
Unnecessary modifications of the steam deck that make stationary? I could not resist posting this here ;) My question to all the steam deck fans out there: Would you be able to fill this 60 TB beast with games?
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Why would you do that? You can only play one game at a time. You'll really only enjoy a few games at most a day. Just keep the game data on the Deck that you plan to play.
This is like keeping every website you know open in a tab, just in case you plan to visit it.
The problem with that is more download speed, imo. Yeah, you can only play 1 game at a time, but if it's going to take you a day to install another game, why not have a few? And then ofc different games satisfy different needs. Like you can have a long JRPG, a shooter you're playing with your friends, a casual indie game you're working on.
You can only play one game at a time, but that doesn't stop you from playing multiple games over some days
Now you can enjoy five terabytes of updates each time you turn the deck on. Isn't that nice?
This is what my point is. You don't need 60 TiB of games on a device.
Yeah, and what kind of an utter moron would do something like that? π
Honestly it feels like there's something wrong with my brain that just stops me from making good use of bookmarks (and that something might actually be the ADHD, now that I think about it.)
Generally I just forget that I bookmarked something, so keeping a tab open serves as a sort of reminder to get back that page β right now I have 4 tabs "bookmarked" with a bunch of different WiFi AP models I was looking into, and seeing those tabs reminds me that yeah I need to do that shit at some point.
Yes, in theory I could just use the reminder application that comes with my frickin' operating system, but somehow that always eventually goes to shit too π
If you haven't worked it out, that whole project was definitely more about because we can, than any sort of sensible reason.
Hah, yeah, and it's awesome that you can do this with a Deck. It is just a computer, after all π