SABRENT Rocket 2230 NVMe 4.0 1TB High Performance PCIe 4.0 M.2 2230 SSD [SB-2130-1TB]

Upgraded my 64GB Steamdeck to 512GB with this, works insanely well and even loads games a bit faster than the 512GB factory Steamdeck. If you do this REMOVE YOUR SD CARD BEFORE DISSASSEMBLY! This is apparently a pretty noob mistake to make but oops, the outer shell will snap the micro-sd card in half. Great drive, 10/10 especially for the 90ish USD I spent.

I actually ordered this SSD before I ordered my Steam Deck. I ended up getting my Deck (64 gb) before the SSD so I ran games for a couple of days on SD card. Huge difference in load times when I upgraded to the SSD. Installing in Deck was fairly easy. I was able to get metal shield around SSD. 1 TB is a great size for the Steam Deck. It really is amazing how many games you can have on the Deck.

So far I have 0 complains to it. Worked well with my steam deck. The card shield when you put it on the new card might be a bit tight. But do it slowly, and it will fit like the original.

So i bought this ssd for my steam deck and it works like a charm. Just to remind you that when you replaced the original internal ssd you need to reinstall the steam os. And theres a lot of tutorial in youtube that you can watch so dont worry. Once you finished all the setup you will be very happy that you decided to choose the 64gb and saves bunch.

PCIe Gen 4 drives do have a compatibility issue with Surface Pro 8 and possibly 9 too were it randomly reboots and is very unstable. This drive does work without any issues if you make the following changes before cloning existing drive to it. I get double the speed from my stock drive at 4600MB/s read speeds and battery last around 6 hours (same as my stock) at 120Hz refresh, 50% brightness and using the keyboard at lowest backlight setting and just browsing the web over Wifi 6. Drive temperatures stayed at 41C or below at high load. This is what you need to do before cloning. Step #4 is necessary for stable upgrade without random reboots. 1.) Update Windows 11 to 22H2 2.) Download the latest firmware updates for Surface Pro 8, there are some recent ones. Launch the surface app and verify that you have the latest. These are my versions. SAM: 11.101.139.0 UEFI: 18.102.141.0 3.) Turn off bitlocker so the drive is decrypted, you can turn bitlocker again after you replace the drive. 4.) In control panel, search for an applet called Power Options, its under the advance power settings when you try to edit the Power plan. Under PCI Express, change PCI Express -> Link Power State Management to Moderate Power Savings, default is maximum power savings, this was what was causing random reboots for me. This is the only change that is needed from the default factory image that ships with Surface Pro 8. 5.) Clone to Sabrent drive using an external USB C enclosure that can house a 2230 ssd (there are several sold here). You can use their free Acronis tool from Sabrents website. I personally used Macrium Reflect free version to clone as it kept the partitions the same as before, Acronis does merge the partitions which causes issues when trying to do a factory reset or recovery as partition will not be found. 6.) Swap the drives. I did not re-use the metal surface pro ssd enclosure, I instead added .5mm thermal pad directly to the top of the Sabrent Drive, it fits nicely. With 1mm thermal pad, the magnetic door did not close, so .5mm is only choice. Max temperature at high load was 41c. 7.) Boot to your new drive, test to make sure its stable, you can re-enable bitlocker to encrypt drive again. There is an optional setting you can set before or after the clone, which may give you better battery life. There is a hidden power setting in Power Options under Hard disk called AHCI Link Power Management - HIPM/DIPM By default its already set to HIPM (Host Initiated Power Management), you can set this setting to Lowest for battery to give you deeper sleep states if supported, the drive still wakes up fast regardless of the power state. To enable this setting in Power Options you can add this to the registry. Create a text file in notepad that ends in .reg extension, example Add_AHCI_Power_Setting.reg without quotes. Copy and paste registry setting below (line starts with [HKEY....) into the file and save it, double click the file in file explorer to add this setting into your registry (when prompted, click yes). This option will now show up in Power Options under Hard disk. For battery, set to Lowest, for Plugged In, you can set to Active (There is no power management with this option), for faster performance. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPowerPowerSettings012ee47-9041-4b5d-9b77-535fba8b1442b2d69d7-a2a1-449c-9680-f91c70521c60] Attributes=dword:00000002

Bought this for my husbands new steam deck. Was much cheaper to buy and install this than to buy the more expensive steam deck. Installation was super easy. Came in an absolutely beautiful case, I know that may not matter to most people but I thought it was awesome. The case is a rose gold color and there was even rose gold lettering on the SSD itself. Adds tons of storage to the steam deck, allows more storage for it, and everything runs super smooth! If you’re looking at purchasing this for your steam deck then this is the right product to get!

Nice one. i put on my steamdeck. So far so good

Got it on sale for $100 and it is a great value for that price. Works as expected in my steam deck, I have not had any issues.

Cant complain at all. Nicely packaged. Works fast in my Steam Deck

llego a Chile en perfectas condiciones, bien embalado y en las fechas estimadas. Saludos.