Just small correction, you need to detach the battery first then you press power button several times to discharge any remaining power in circuit board. In this video, I observed that step is reversed so it might be mislead to some of people...

honestly mate thats probably the best tutorial I've seen of ssd swaps on the deck. None of these other guys show how to make partitions. liked and subbed :)

Thank you bro, the video is just ..PERFECT. I had put off upgrading my 64 deck for so long, because I have been a mere console peasant my entire life and never did any tinkering )) and now I have my steam deck with all the space I ever wanted and whats important, completely STRESS FREE. you have saved saved my sanity and granted me freedom! :D and you are a very cool dude)) all the best to you

Just want to mention that for those who are willing to tinker a bit or install plugins/utilities, Cryo Utilities 2.0 will move those shader caches to your micro SD card for you. That is a huge feature for me on my 64gb, in addition to the other performance tweaks. That said, I do plan on upgrading the SSD later on, and I appreciate this video!

For a small channel, awesome video guide! Clear & concise, as well as explaining what the command lines mean.

Dude, amazing guide, did 64gb to 1tb and it worked perfectly. Surprisingly straightforward 🎉

Hey man, greetings from Slovakia. You did absolutely amazing video, that help me successfully update my 64GB SSD to 1TB... thanks a lot :)

Thank you for a good video! I followed it (instead of ifixed one) and everything passed smooth. 🙂👍

Great video clear and straight to the point, just upgraded my SSD thanks to your tutorial. Great work 👍

Thanks bud, complete confidence boost to replace my 64gb. Love your content.

Damn,you did well explaining all these to me like im a 5 year old. I will do the same thing you did!:) thanks!

Several months later when I’m switching my SSD from my LCD Steam Deck to my new OLED Steam Deck, I am still using this guide. Thanks so much for creating this video. Will see if you have a similar OLED Steam Deck guide.

Excellent video. Hope you get more subs soon and make more great tech videos. Great job brother.

Maaaan! Jazak Allah khair! Will do this soon!

Glad you ssd has worked out. Picked up a 1tb micro card in the mean time while I wait for prices to fall. Looking forward to your future uploads 👍

Just used this guide to upgrade my lcd deck. Something I’ve been putting off bc it seemed to hard. Followed this guide and it was quick and easy. Thank you !!

Thank you for the guide. Extremely helpful! Used your cloning portion of the guide. Buy coincidence purchased the same external enclosure as you. The Sabrent enclosure really is the best for convenience.

Awesome quality video. Looking forward to using it to upgrade my SSD today. Very good explanations and attention to detail.

Great job man. Just put in a 1tb drive and all seems fine. Trying game now.

Thanks for the guide! I got my 256gb model upgraded to a 1tb with no problems!

I upgraded from 64gb to 1tb and Sudo command made it smooth and easy. The whole process took around 20min including swapping the ssd's.

Brill bud, well presented including potential pitfalls. I shall be doing the same for my new Steam Deck as soon as the SSD arrives.

Bro that you sooooo much, followed your tutorial step by step and cloned my ssd to a 1tb ssd and installed it without issue….

Going to be using your video to do my ssd upgrade soon. Great video brother.

Mashallah brother, I really enjoyed this video. Felt like I was learning how to upgrade it together with u xD I like this format

Thank you so much Qasim that was easy to follow. You are a genius man one love!

Salam brother Qasim.. Excellent video detailing the process.. Although im not a Steamdeck owner, I must say I am getting intrigued to upgrafe my 1tb OxPlayer1s to 2tb... Hmm.. 😅

Very good guide! only on my second boot after cloning the steam deck re-initialised itself and i had to start over (well just re mount the SD card etc and download the proton etc) but overall very good and well spoke!

Honestly if you have the deck in battery maintenance mode you don't really need to unplug the battery but it is overall a good habit to unplug any power in general when opening electronics

First attempt failed to boot, no boot device, not sure why. Second attempt is currently cloning very slowly (36.8mb/s). Hope this works this time.

Wonderfully informative video. Thank you very much.

Great bro you get huaying fan model 👍

Really great video man thank you. I like your channel a lot.

Worked great. Thank you

Update...followed your vid. All sorted, New 2tb ssd installed via cloning. However I had a big issue, after first installation it just hung on the steam deck logo. After some research I needed to re-clone. After doing that all good. Hope that helps anyone who experiences the same.

I watched your video after upgrading. I should have seen it prior.

Thanks for the information it work well your awesome

Biggest fan commenting 1st as per…

very interesting, I will try it for sure! Just one question: why should I set a new password if I already have one?

Ok so I got to know. Why do you have to disconnect the battery? When I did this upgrade I didn’t and my deck is fine. I’m not saying do it, the safer bet is probably to disconnect it but I can’t find out why it’s so important to do so? Side note: thanks for showing what a pain in the rear removing the shell is. Most other videos just cut away to it being open. The hardest part for me by far was just getting the back off.

very good video subbed

Are you able to recommend any decent usb c chargers that also charges while playing on the steam deck ?

Thanks!!

Ordered a 2tb from ali for 100€, will be interesting if it is a legit one!

Thanks for watching! Click here to check out my review of the Steam Deck after owning one for 6 months: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qdabns6DqNTbnok.html

I know i am late to the party. is there any prep we need to do to the ssd when we cloning. or will the cloning format and prepare the ssd.

Like the video, but there must be a faster way to clone. I'm going from a 1tb that's almost full to a 2tb in a usb 3.1 nvme enclosure. To get to 1GB took an hour and a half (144KB/sec). By my calculations this is gonna take @ 60 days to complete :(

Do I need to expand the /home partition after dd? Opening in kde partition manager the partition is still 46.99gb

I got a 1TB SSD in mine. My MicroSD card is there just to keep dust out of the port.

Around 5:30 can you explain the purpise of those 2 programs? I ordered my Steam Deck 2 days ago, i already have my 2TB SSD that arrived yesterday, and I downloaded the SteamOS onto my computer and put it on a USB. What is the purpose of "flashing" it over with these 2 programs? Will it not work the way I did it?

I have the 512gb version of this SSD, While it's quite fast, In my system it's dropping it's health quite quickly, In just 2.5 months and 6.3TB writes my health is down to 96%

So why the rufus. If you got the steam image on the usb and the rufus formats the usb. Doesnt that negate all that progress

Hello friend, it turns out that I changed the ssd of 64 for one of 1 tera sn740 M2 2230 but when it comes to doing the procedure to recover the system, when I select the pendrive where I have the image, the screen turns black and I leave the word error one after another, telling me a series of things that I obviously do not understand. Could you help me? Could it be that that SSD doesn't work? I have already tried sd memory and different pendrives. And he makes the same mistake.

How did you connect to your internet if you can’t press steam x

Salam brother how's the ssd now is it still working? Planning on getting one at aliexpress and do you think it is legit.

hi guys, i put 512 gb on my steam deck, i have 64gb model, but on windows show 512 gb but on steam os show 64gb? how fix this?

Brother i need your help i got a steam deck and upgraded it to a 1 tb ssd. I installed steam os on a 64gb sd card but when i go to boot manager it is empty why is this?

Ok i followe everything but there is a problem invalid dd invalid nummber 128m i cant pass that, any fix?

Assalamualaukim brother.. why do we need to enable the battery storage mode and when did you turn it back off, at what point? i am following the reimage method since i dont have the external nvme enclosure.

Hey bro when you clone to the new ssd does that clone partitions aswell? I have a dual boot and was wondering if i have to repartition after and re install windows or does this clone the entiry of your old ssd

Hi, great video :) im thinking about upgrading to a 2 tb ssd. I dont really want to deal with having to download the os from scratch, does anyone know if its possible to clone the internal drive onto an SATA external drive (I have a LEXAR NQ100 2.5 SATA 480 gb SSD that i put in an enclosure) and then install the new internal drive into the deck, and then copy it over from the SATA -> NVMe that way? I really dont want to have to buy an enclosure for the NVMe drive just for this because I'd honestly never use it again. If anyone has any thoughts on what I should do please let me know!! Unrelated kind of but my steam deck has currently locked me out because it doesnt have space to update and so im trying to boot into linux from my external drive to just delete some shaders for games im not playing right now . This process is really annoying and its why I'd like to avoid having to do something similar again for whenever I get rid of the 64 gb drive LOL.

You can use a 2280 much cheaper instead of a 2230 frightening ly expensive

I get a message that said invalid number 128m

If you cloned your ssd (58gb approx) why did your new ssd show 1.8tb free of 1.8tb?

Can i use this ssd on x99 micro2 motherboard

I do it and it works when I first boot it up, but when I restart the deck it goes back to the setup screen to select the language and if I complete the setup the data is gone. Tried it twice and got the same result. Any idea why?

I change my 64gb to my 4tb

I cant understand a word you're saying

This didn't work for me. I keep running out of space while running the command at 7gb exactly. Makes no sense considering its shown as a 1tb drive

Damn,you did well explaining all these to me like im a 5 year old. I will do the same thing you did!:) thanks!