So relatively new deck owner.

Got a deal on a regular Deck for pretty cheap. I didn’t opt for the 1TB SSD or anything like that.

I know that it’s a pretty easy hardware replacement for the SSD or the SD card.

I just have a couple questions:

  1. Does the cloning process for the SSD require specialized tools?
  2. do you notice a huge performance improvement on SSD compared to SD card?
  • RenardDesMers@lemmy.ml
    3·
    7 hours ago

    I’d say it kinda depends on what kind of game you play on your deck. I play a lot of smallish indie games and moat of them are on the SD card. I keep the ssd for when I want to play bigger games.

    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Yeah for sure, any 2D games or smaller games usually get installed to my microSD. But I usually don’t want to install anything larger than a couple GB to the microSD just because it takes forever to install and update.

      I should also mention that some larger games (ie Cyberpunk) specifically have slow storage settings, that will try to compensate for using slower storage like a microSD. It won’t help with install/update times or general load times, but it will help some of the gameplay issues you can run into while playing.