My Steam Deck has brought me a lot of pleasure over the past year being able to easily play games in short bursts and to easily take my gaming library with me when I leave the house.

However because I decided to get the base model it only came with a slow 64GB eMMC SSD for internal storage. Sure I’ve got a 256GB SDCard, but it’s transfer speeds are only a fraction of what’s possible with an internal SSD.

As you can see in the image above the default internal storage only has one game installed, the rest is Steam Deck OS files. Not ideal.

After watching a few YouTube videos of people who’d successfully upgrade their Steam Deck’s internal storage, I decide it would be worth trying it myself.

I decided to go with a Western Digital PC SN740 1TB M.2 2230 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD/Solid State Drive which cost me £80

I used iFixIt’s great step by step guide to safely crack open my deck.

Valve have made a very serviceable machine in the Steam Deck and getting the old SSD removed and replaced was pretty straight forward.

After swapping out the drives I needed to follow the official SteamOS recovery guide to get things reinstalled. Which again was pretty straightforward and quick.

So, did it work?

Oh wonderful! Look at all that fresh open space, ready to be filled with lots of games!

I’ve now got more storage than the high-end Steam Deck at a lower cost. Gotta love that