Steam Deck Works with Solidigm's 61.44 TB Enterprise SSD

[btarunr]

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.



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[Crackong]

Not putting the whole thing together, portable and use internal power only = I am sorry but it doesn't work.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I don't want to seem overly negative, because this IS very interesting and fascinating, but this is also redonkulas and VERY impractical..

 

[Vayra86]

Nice headline, but yeah, whatever

 

[RayneYoruka]

Honestly this is to be expected as you can pretty much run u2 to nvme in almost anything.

 

[Chomiq]

3 TB variant costs $300 so 61 TB should cost around $6000. Perfect for any Steam Deck owner.

 

[ZoneDymo]

yeah im kinda with the sentiment of: cool but not really useful.

awaiting for someone to hook up one of those tape storage units or perhaps less insane, a raid 0 setup with 5 HDD's.

 

[Vayra86]

yeah im kinda with the sentiment of: cool but not really useful.

awaiting for someone to hook up one of those tape storage units or perhaps less insane, a raid 0 setup with 5 HDD's.

If they can hook up a dishwasher, definitely worthy of TPU headline.

 

[Readlight]

It has Kubuntu

 

[jesdals]

So you can either play games in your Tesla or pay just as much as a Tesla to play all of the games on your steamdeck with this?

 

[Tahagomizer]

It's the same category of usefulness as playing doom on a pregnancy test. The most interesting things in life start with "can I do it?", not with "is it practical to do it?"

 

[mechtech]

McGyver would be proud......................

 

[Chrispy_]

Why is this a surprise? NVMe is a standard, and SteamOS is based on Arch Linux with support for up to 8 Exabyte disks (at present)

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.

 

[Ruru]

yeah im kinda with the sentiment of: cool but not really useful.

awaiting for someone to hook up one of those tape storage units or perhaps less insane, a raid 0 setup with 5 HDD's.

Well, at least I think that things like these are way more interesting than for example this day's "overclocking" records; a CPU-Z screenshot/validation with one or two cores and stability is a neverheard thing..

 

[unwind-protect]

3 TB variant costs $300 so 61 TB should cost around $6000. Perfect for any Steam Deck owner.

Actually I think these SSDs are around $50,000.

 

[Chrispy_]

Actually I think these SSDs are around $50,000.

The 30TB version is under $2000, the 61TB version is $3700.

https://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.

 

[LabRat 891]

*doh*
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.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Actually I think these SSDs are around $50,000.

At one time that was true, not lately. SSD drive costs have come down.