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?
  • rotopenguin@infosec.pub
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    7 hours ago

    You want to upgrade the SSD.

    I upgraded to a 2tb Corsair SSD (remember when you could just buy stuff? For reasonable money?). When I copied stuff over, I started out with the Corsair in an external enclosure. The card crashed during the copy, and I think the reason why is that these cards are dramless. They borrow ram from the host, and you’re in an enclosure the “host” has no ram to give. What I had to do was put the new card in the deck, install a steamos recovery on it, put the old card in a reader, and copy in from there.

    Uhh I’ll leave the details of copying to everyone else, but just know that writing to an external nvme enclosure can give you a bad time.