Oyen Digital 2TB M.2 2242 NVMe PCIe 3D TLC SSD Solid State Drive

Bought my 2nd steam deck during anniversary sales, the cheapest model this time since now I know how easy it is to upgrade the deck, long story short I was looking for a cheap SSD to upgrade my new purchase and came cross this, this ssd looks like a deal too good to be true so I didn't jump the gun at first but saw no one review it for the next week or so and decided to bite the bullet, besides it is sold by first party I should have no trouble to return it if anything goes wrong. I am happy to say I'm glad with the result, it works fine so far, with addtional 1TB micro SD card I can put a fare chunk of my steam liabrary into the hand hold! If you intended to buy this put in your steam deck like I did there are things need to pay attention to, first of all this ssd is oversized for steam deck which you probably know already, the deck uses 2230 and this is 2242 so you need to tape the ssd if you want extral security of the ssd due to the miss aliment screw whole, but since the heat shield on top of the ssd will act like fixer this is not essential, regardless I taped it anyway just for extral safety. Secondly, this ssd is dual sides which is thicker, although it fits in the deck but just barely, with single side 2230 nvme installed steam deck's back plate can be put back and hold by just clips, after installed this ssd however, the bottom side which is near where the ssd resides will be toped open by the extra hight from the ssd and need put screws back to hold the plate down, so it's hard to say if there will be a long term effect on the wifi module due to the extra presure and heat applied by the over spec ssd on top of it. So far I encountered 2 very small incidents related to wifi connections and can't decide if they were caused by software or hardware, as soon as I restart the machine all is well, so it remains to be seen. Lastly, this is a 3D TLC ssd which usually means short life and lower performance under certain conditions but it should not concers you if all your intention is to use it to store your steam liabrary.

I have used it for about a week in a MacBook Pro 13" 2017 (non-touch bar) (with the Sintech adapter) and it works well so far. Using Black Magic Disk Speed Test, read speed is consistent at around 1900 MB/sec, write speed fluctuates between 800 MB/sec and 1700 MB/sec.

I should have taken pictures of the install but it's larger than the original drive by a few mm so you can't screw it in but most people looking at this are going to know that, what they don't know is since this is a double sided drive it snugly slides under the battery and stays in place with no need for tape or glue etc. When you tuck it in there it's not going anywhere. It does put a little pressure on the back of the case but in my opinion that's a good thing since it's being held down.

For the price this was great and did the job. Read write speeds are decent and had no errors. I used this to upgrade my legion go from 512tb to 2tb. Job would be easier to copy data if I had a cloner, but thats besides the point. This is a great product for the price. Would be nice if i cought it on sale though

Very nice