Just a quick question that someone here may know: I have a Steam Machine coming and I’m looking to swap the SSD in my Steam Deck (2 TB) with the SSD in the Steam Machine (512 GB). As far as I know, the SM comes with a 2230 SSD so it’ll fit in the Steam Deck, but I’m curious if the install is different enough that I should backup and re-image the 2 TB drive before I put it in the Steam Machine or if I can just swap the two drives.
I’m assuming I have to re-image each drive with a SteamOS USB installer, but if I could just hotswap them it’d make life easier. Just not sure how much device-specific code is part of the install.
For what it’s worth, I recently upgraded my mobo, cpu and ram. I used all the parts from my old rig hot swapped. Hard drives, GPU, etc. I’m using Cachy Linux.
Booted up fine no problems. Didn’t have to reimage/format.
You could always just swap them and if it works it works. Otherwise nuke and pave.
Just a little note, because words matter, and a lot of people are getting confused.
Hot swapping means swapping them with the machines on and running 👍