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A user says he managed to get an M.2 2242 SSD installed in a Steam Deck with minor adjustments. By default, the Deck only supports the smallest M.2 2230 SSDs.
According to Twitter user Belly Jelly all users need is a adapterbracket which allows the motherboard to accept the 42mm long SSDs. Only a small thermal pad gets in the way of this adapter; it deleted the user. Furthermore, the adapter bends the heat spreader and SSD slightly, but he claims that this does not affect the operation.
About to make more hard those are mod works, he also posts photos on which his Steam Deck is closed again and he installs SteamOS on the new SSD. All this goes without any problems, Belly Jelly reports.
The Steam Deck’s M.2 2230 size is the smallest SSD size available. The Pricewatch shows that there are currently six SSDs for sale that meet that size. In terms of M.2 2242 drives, there are 35 options. This increase in the number of options creates the potential to place an SSD with more than 1TB capacity in the Deck, or one with a more favorable price per gigabyte.
Valve is relatively open to the possibility of tweaking the Deck. Spare parts are available for purchase through iFixit and the company has CAD files of the housing and a teardown released. Valve previously said that the SSD in the Steam Deck ‘not intended for replacement’but in practice it doesn’t seem to cause any problems.
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