This Steam Deck Is Modded To Fit A Ridiculously Huge 61.44TB SSD
This Steam Deck Is Modded To Fit A Ridiculously Huge 61.44TB SSD
Here’s a quick fact of the day: the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III can eat up over 200GB of storage if you tick all the boxes. That’s over one-fifth of a typical 1TB SSD, one-tenth of 2TB SSD, and as a matter of fact, nearly half the storage available on Steam Deck’s highest stock configuration.
So how do you get around with games with obscenely large file sizes? Outlet Storage Review has taken this to the extreme by fitting an equally-obscene 61.44TB Solidigm D5-P5536 enterprise SSD attached directly to the Steam Deck’s motherboard. Specifically, it involves converting the M.2 connector to the datacenter-oriented U.2 socket with an adapter, which connects to the 2.5-inch enclosure that happens to currently be the largest capacity SSD in the world.
Don’t expect the modded Steam Deck to be portable, however – since the U.2 drive needs its own power (which Steam Deck couldn’t provide for obvious reasons), running the drive will require a constant power source. Still, the fact that this handheld managed to register a drive this huge, with a non-standard protocol is certainly a feat in itself.
In terms of performance, the drive managed to put out a respectable 3.6GB/s read – faster than the original drive – with other metrics point to a perfectly playable system. Of course, this project is at best a proof-of-concept, and at worst a fun but silly experiment to push the handheld into uncharted waters, so don’t expect your gaming device to suddenly come with huge storage options anytime soon.
Pokdepinion: Now can be have the games to downsize because not everyone own SSDs this large?
