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.
“Hot swapping” means doing it while the machine is running. You can’t hot swap an NVME SSD. You gotta turn the computer off.
It would appear that theres a standoff for 2230 and maybe 2280 on the right, so you can just reuse your Steamdecks SSD.