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:
- Does the cloning process for the SSD require specialized tools?
- do you notice a huge performance improvement on SSD compared to SD card?
If you can swing it, Sabrent makes some nvme enclosures for the 2230 size the deck uses https://sabrent.com/collections/nvme-enclosures/products/ec-ne30 that are super reasonable price wise, https://sabrent.com/collections/nvme-enclosures/products/ec-snveis for full size and is also super reasonable. What I did for mine and my partner’s decks upgrading from a 512 GB ssd, if you have drive space you could do with one enclosure. I use the old ssd as a removable drive now so it doesn’t got to waste.
Ssd is the way to go for sure, SD card is nice to have but it’s very noticeably slower for some things, I tend to use it for emulators and games I don’t play frequently.
20 bucks is cheaper enough that I might do it. Setting back up all my emulation and tweaks again seems less fun than the first time.