When Valve launched its portable console on the market, the steam bridge, the fact that its storage was expandable was good news for many users, as it opened the doors for us to buy an SSD and install it ourselves to improve its storage capacity. However, there are many limitations in this regard, such as the SSD needs to be forcibly formatted M.2 2230and that there is no SSD 2TB for sale in this one…or is it?
With the space that today’s games take up, it’s only natural that whoever buys a Steam Deck would want to have more storage, which, as we’ve already mentioned, can be easily achieved by installing a larger capacity SSD inside. The downside is that finding a compatible device with a capacity larger than 1TB seems like mission impossible.
No 2 TB SSD compatible with Steam Deck?
Valve actually didn’t impose any limitations on the maximum capacity of SSDs that could be installed in their Steam Deck, so technically installing a 2TB SSD in the console should be possible. The problem lies in the physical limitation of SSDs that the console itself supports, which as we mentioned must be M.2 2230 format, i.e. SSDs that have dimensions of 22 x 30 mm.
On PC, the most used format is M.2 2280, easily found in capacities of 2 TB, but M.2 2230 SSDs are so small that it is extremely difficult to find them in this capacity , and in fact it is already expensive (and are quite expensive) the 1 TB. Despite this, we can tell you that there are 2 TB SSDs compatible with the Steam Deck.
It is Micron 2400, a family of SSDs that was introduced last year and includes M.2 2230 models of 512.1TB and up to 2TB of capacity, which would be the perfect complement to having a 2TB SSD in the Steam Deck. These SSDs have a PCIe 4.0 interface and are capable of up to 4,500 MB/s read and 4,000 MB/s write, with a durability of 600 TBW on the 2TB model.
The biggest problem we find here is that there was never any real availability of these SSDs, and they were presented in January last year, so they had plenty of time to distribute them in Europe , and buying one is almost an impossible mission because you would have to resort to stores in the USA or China.
This Micron 2400 SSD was the first to be presented in 2230 format and with a capacity of 2 TB, but it is not the only one. For example, the famous manufacturer western digital also has a model SN740 in the same format and capacity, but we find ourselves in the situation where there is no availability to buy it, at least in Europe.
So there is no way to put 2TB on the console?
By proxy you can, but as we mentioned we’re going to run into additional problems doing so as unfortunately we couldn’t find any compatible 2TB SSDs for sale in Europe. However, if you want to have a Steam Deck with a 2TB SSD yes or yes, you have the possibility of buying it in foreign stores (but be careful because not all of them have delivery to Europe, such as Newegg where they have the 2TB WD SN740 in M.2 2230 format for only $147 but they only ship in the US).
Where you can find it and with shipping to Europe is on AliExpress, which is currently the 2TB model at the price of 172,47$.
