Monday, November 6th 2023
Steam Deck Works with Solidigm's 61.44 TB Enterprise SSD
With a simple mod, Storage Review got a Valve Steam Deck handheld gaming console to work with the world's highest capacity SSD, the mammoth 61.44 TB variant of the Solidigm D5-P5336. At its core, the Steam Deck is a highly compacted x86-64 PC powered by an AMD Ryzen mobile processor that features an industry standard PCIe interface, which it uses for an onboard M.2-2230 NVMe SSD. Storage Review used a simple adapter that converts M.2 to U.2—the interface of the D5-P5336—and the Steam Deck just worked.
Out of the box, the Steam Deck uses Valve's SteamOS, although it's fairly straightforward to install Windows, and get the Steam application to present its user interface (with which you can play just about any Windows PC game that's not yet available on SteamOS). A quick benchmark with KDiskMark (the Linux analog of CDM) sees the D5-P5336 post sequential read speeds of 3.6 GB/s, with 2.8 GB/s sequential writes. There's a catch here, though. It's not practical to lug the D5-P5336 along with your Steam Deck, the Solidigm drive is designed for servers, and besides the U.2 connection, requires a power input that a U.2 enclosure can provide.
Sources:
Storage Review, VideoCardz
Out of the box, the Steam Deck uses Valve's SteamOS, although it's fairly straightforward to install Windows, and get the Steam application to present its user interface (with which you can play just about any Windows PC game that's not yet available on SteamOS). A quick benchmark with KDiskMark (the Linux analog of CDM) sees the D5-P5336 post sequential read speeds of 3.6 GB/s, with 2.8 GB/s sequential writes. There's a catch here, though. It's not practical to lug the D5-P5336 along with your Steam Deck, the Solidigm drive is designed for servers, and besides the U.2 connection, requires a power input that a U.2 enclosure can provide.
17 Comments on Steam Deck Works with Solidigm's 61.44 TB Enterprise SSD
awaiting for someone to hook up one of those tape storage units or perhaps less insane, a raid 0 setup with 5 HDD's.
Aside from the issue that the Solidigm P5336 doesn't physically fit, and the Steam deck can't supply enough power for the drive by itself, this is a pointless article from StorageReview because all they're "proving" is that an Arch Linux distro running on hardware with NVMe support can, in fact, do what it's absolutely required to do anyway.
I'd be far more surprised (and alarmed) if it didn't work.
www.tech-america.com/item/solidigm-ssd-sbfpf2bv614t001-d5-p5336-61-44tb-2-5-pcie4-0x4-3d5-qlc-retail/sbfpf2bv614t001
Expect the 61TB to be out of stock for a while, it's very desirable for density reasons and still very new with no real competition.
That's neat, and all but, The Deck has 4x exposed PCI-e lanes (from the M.2 m-key).
Literally, anything PCIe will work.
I guess this is 'good' since it makes more people realize PCIe is PCIe, no matter the form factor or PHY.