Corsair MP600 MINI 1TB M.2 NVMe PCIe x4 Gen4 2 SSD – M.2 2230 – Up to 4,800MB/sec Sequential Read – High-Density 3D TLC NAND – Great for Steam Deck and Microsoft Surface – Black

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There are now quite a few options for smaller form factor SSDs that are excellent choices for your Steam Deck, Steam Deck OLED or other handheld console, such as the Asus ROG Ally. Big desktops aren’t the use case for this drive, but, as with most things in tech, smaller devices tend to replace larger ones and future motherboards or storage cards will likely build support for smaller-sized M. Form factors like the MP600 will surely push more laptops and other small device manufacturers to offer an externally accessible M.

In the Sequential Read 64k test, We see steady results again from the Rocket and WD drives just barely passing 500µs of latency. Klarna Bank AB (publ) is Authorised by the Swedish Financial Services Authority (Finansinspektionen) and is subject to limited regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority.If you are in any doubt about your statutory rights you may wish to consult a solicitor or your local citizens advice bureau. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional elements of Android apps and smartphones such as performance, and I’ve been working in the tech industry in some way or another since 2017. A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.You'll need to carefully take the Steam Deck apart following this handy iFixit guide, which walks you through accessing the internals, carefully removing a heatsink, disconnecting the battery and swapping the drive. At the end of the testing, these four drives highlighted the performance differences between TLC and QLC NAND pretty well. Both 20Gbps USB and Thunderbolt 4 are integrated to the back panel and Intel CPU/GPU graphics are used.

The Last test is VDI Monday Login, where the MP600 did hit the highest latency at 2419µs but passed all of the other drives with 12,503 IOPS. Still, it's arguably one of the best upgrades you can make, and it's very much worth it if you find yourself with a large games library. The MP600 Core Mini is a host memory buffer (HMB) design that eschews DRAM for primary cache, instead relying on your device’s main memory for those duties. Sleepy_Hollowed said:This is a great option for smaller builds to be honest, I'd jump on the chance to get one. The only thing to keep in mind with a Steam Deck SSD upgrade is that it's a bit more involved than slotting in one of the fastest micro SD cards for Steam Deck.If the storage speed is at least on par with what you get out of the box, then it's all about the storage improvements from there, and that's exactly what you get.