Solving Steam Deck Shader Storage with a 61.44TB SSD
The essence of this unconventional amalgamation lies in its absurdity. We chose the Solidigm P5336 enterprise SSD, offering a staggering 61.44TB capacity. While the capacity is amazing, it leverages an enterprise U.2 form factor, which is problematic given the Steam Deck’s M.2 slot. As such, an M.2 to external U.2 adapter from NFHK was employed as the bridge, paired with an Icy Dock enclosure to hold the drive.
Unnecessary modifications of the steam deck that make stationary? I could not resist posting this here ;) My question to all the steam deck fans out there: Would you be able to fill this 60 TB beast with games?
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I had to read the title three times before it clicked that it said 64 TERABYTES and not gigabytes.
Holy smokes.
my steam library and all dlc is just over 10tb. Thats for 976 games. I need to step up my game
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factorylibrary must grow.Get a couple of COD games and suddenly 61tb won't be enough
My Skyrim install with mods is just over 1.5
GTB you just need more modsEdit: just woke up, totally mistyped the wrong prefix
Skyrim base install size is 6 GB
I mistyped that should have been TB
Mistyped? Is that TB instead of GB?
Yeah, just woke up when I typed that, lol thanks
Please dont give game developers any more excuses to bloat their games I have enough pain with 50-100gb titles, when they get a whiff of this they'll cream their pants and bloat them to a terabyte per game.
3D print a custom back for that and make it portable again. Though I wonder how much power the drive consumes.
Edit: NM, between the external power supply required and the fact the first picture is it just sitting on the Steam Deck and not actually integrated, you’d be carrying it around extra. Maybe mod the deck and put the drive in a housing so it’s easier to hook up.
Why would you do that? You can only play one game at a time. You'll really only enjoy a few games at most a day. Just keep the game data on the Deck that you plan to play.
This is like keeping every website you know open in a tab, just in case you plan to visit it.
The problem with that is more download speed, imo. Yeah, you can only play 1 game at a time, but if it's going to take you a day to install another game, why not have a few? And then ofc different games satisfy different needs. Like you can have a long JRPG, a shooter you're playing with your friends, a casual indie game you're working on.
You can only play one game at a time, but that doesn't stop you from playing multiple games over some days
Now you can enjoy five terabytes of updates each time you turn the deck on. Isn't that nice?
Steam has an update schedule so only updates a couple games at a time unless you force the updates.
More frequently, I boot the Deck and immediately start a game so it has no time to download anything, and then put it to sleep when I'm done playing. So when using what I would expect to be the standard use case, the deck downloads nothing at all ever until I actually take the time to wake it up and then let it cook for an hour or two, or manually force an update on a game I want to play but can't because there's an update out.
I find it hard to believe that Valve expected people to just keep their Deck sitting around with the screen on for multiple hours doing nothing but updating. My Switch downloads updates on sleep mode when plugged into power. The PS5 and Xbox do it. The PS4 did it. Why can't the deck at least have a toggle option for it?
Doing it the PS3 way could be the least complex option: just auto turn on 30 seconds to check if there’s updates every day, download if needed. On the deck it would also require a power check (just don’t if it’s not plugged in) and a further check if it’s a connection marked as having limited data. Still a decent solution imo.
This is what my point is. You don't need 60 TiB of games on a device.
If you haven't worked it out, that whole project was definitely more about because we can, than any sort of sensible reason.
Hah, yeah, and it's awesome that you can do this with a Deck. It is just a computer, after all 😄
60TB is a lot. My library almost fits on a 4TB drive, but I don't play modern COD or Battlefield. All the huge AAA games nowadays are huge in storage cost as well, so it's probably be possible to fill it all up.
Edit: Fixed 4GB typo
A 4 GB drive is really not much for a library, or did you mean TB?
OK, that's fun and all, but how much does that crazy SSD cost? :p
huh, that’s not the worst price, was expecting it to be much worse
Wow, that's a heck of a lot cheaper than I expected. I mean, it's still more than I'm willing to pay for it on my own, but it's not the "haha no way could I ever buy one" level of impossible I was expecting. My boss probably wouldn't bat an eye if I asked for one to stick in a workstation... Hmm.
I think that beyond 1, max 2 tb is just a waste to have more storage, you'll just end up stuck with the " Netflix dilemma" all the time. Every game is already in your Steam library (or the other ones) as it is. Even if the wifi download take time, with a cheap dock and a cable connected to the modem you can download all your title quite quickly. With 2 tb there should be also enough room for "free games" files.
I think it is hard to set a limit, as some games have 2 GB and others have 200 GB. Depending on the games (and mods) you like, it is possible to fill a 2 TB disk with just a handful of games. Other gamers might have 100+ games installed on the 512 GB model.
@cron I don't know if I'd fill one of those 60TB with either Steam or non-Steam games. But I have a different question: why struggling with incompatible hardware? Like, okay, you got an adapter, but isn't that thing too physically big for your Deck?