Upgrade Your Steam Deck Storage With A Sabrent Rocket Q4 2tb Drive

In this video we walk through the necessary steps to upgrade the storage on the Valve Steam Deck, as well as showing off a quick test of how choosing the right storage upgrade is more important than just the largest one available. That’s why we did both with the Sabrent Rocket Q4 2TB Drive! You’ll find links to that drive, and the necessary software, just below the timeline.

Have you upgraded your Steam Deck storage? Let us know down in the comments.

** I apologize about the audio and focus — it was a bad technology day yesterday, apparently.

Timeline:
00:00 Introduction
00:54 What you will need
03:14 Benchmark 512GB: Phoenix Point
04:06 Unboxing, grab a screwdriver
05:30 Put the system in Battery Storage mode
07:02 Let’s talk about screws
07:15 The most CRUCIAL step!
07:37 Disassembly
07:50 Running Rufus
09:18 Prying open the case
11:47 BEHOLD! The hidden screw
14:03 Unplugging the battery
14:54 Removing the old SSD
16:02 Removing the thermal shield
17:14 Installing the new NVMe
17:38 Reconnecting the battery
17:56 Reinstall cooling shield
18:11 Protip on screw placement
19:38 Snapping the case back together
21:43 Bringing device out of suspend
22:00 BIOS check for drive size
22:23 Prepping the OS
22:42 Booting from recovery media
23:45 Installing OS to Steam Deck
25:41 First boot!
26:18 Benchmark 2TB Rocket Q4: Phoenix Point
26:47 Conclusions

Links:
Sabrent Rocket Q4 2230 NVMe – https://amzn.to/3qapBfw

Bootable Drive software:
Windows – Rufus: https://rufus.ie/en/
Mac/Linux – balenaEtcher: https://etcher.balena.io/

Steam OS Deck Image:
https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/download/?ver=steamdeck&snr=

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