Steam Deck Designer Warns against SSD Mod, Will Shorten Lifespan of Portable

[Tsing]

Twitter user Belly Jelly rose to fame last week when they discovered and shared a way of expanding a Steam Deck's M.2 2230 slot to an M.2 2242 one, prompting owners who weren't afraid of experimenting with the device to open their handhelds up to install some M.2 adapters that would enable the support of longer, 2242 SSDs.

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[Zarathustra]

Hmm.


Interesting.

I've noticed that NVMe drives usually have multiple power states.

Here are th epower states my new 2TB Samsung 980 Pro reports to Smart:

Supported Power States
St Op     Max   Active     Idle   RL RT WL WT  Ent_Lat  Ex_Lat
 0 +     8.49W       -        -    0  0  0  0        0       0
 1 +     4.48W       -        -    1  1  1  1        0     200
 2 +     3.18W       -        -    2  2  2  2        0    1000
 3 -   0.0400W       -        -    3  3  3  3     2000    1200
 4 -   0.0050W       -        -    4  4  4  4      500    9500

Here is the 1TB 970 EVO

Supported Power States
St Op     Max   Active     Idle   RL RT WL WT  Ent_Lat  Ex_Lat
 0 +     6.20W       -        -    0  0  0  0        0       0
 1 +     4.30W       -        -    1  1  1  1        0       0
 2 +     2.10W       -        -    2  2  2  2        0       0
 3 -   0.0400W       -        -    3  3  3  3      210    1200
 4 -   0.0050W       -        -    4  4  4  4     2000    8000

And here is my ancient 400GB Intel SSD750 which apparently only has one super high power state and is pinned at it all the time:

Supported Power States
St Op     Max   Active     Idle   RL RT WL WT  Ent_Lat  Ex_Lat
 0 +    25.00W       -        -    0  0  0  0        0       0

My reason for posting all of this was, I wonder if you can force the drive into a lower power state manually, so it cna be used in something like the Steam Deck and have a lower power draw that is not a problem...