What the title says. I upgraded my SSD a while back to 2TB. When I grab the OLED model will I be able to swap the SSD and SD Card over and just keep chugging along? Or will this need to be a clean install?

Anyone ever try moving their SSD to new LCD Steam Deck hardware?

  • SlappyTheHands@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Does anyone know of issues swapping SSDs if used cryoutilities or undervolting/overclocking on old LCD deck?

    • HopelessRespawner@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Not sure about the undervolting etc, but I had/have cryoutilities set up. No issue there. You’ll need to re-modify the UMA buffer though, that’s set in BIOS and lives off the SSD.

      • SlappyTheHands@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Thanks I wouldn’t have caught that. On 2nd thought bios controls under volting, so shouldn’t have any impact on SSD swap, just have to do again on new deck. Old deck did with Smokeless UMAF to unlock bios. Latest official bios has options to go to -50mV. Not sure yet numbers people are able to achieve on this new 6nm chip but was able to set -30mV on everything, and haven’t tried going further yet.

        • HopelessRespawner@alien.topOPBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yeah just thought about that too, since it’s also set in BIOS. Will need to redo stability testing though since 6nm and every SOC has its differences. I just left my UMA at 1G for now. I’ll play with it again if I start having performance issues. Everything right now is buttery smooth. Steam Deck 1 perfected.

  • Ambitious_Layer637@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Can confirm, swapping NVME from OG Steam Deck to new Steam Deck OLED was successful.

    OG was updated to 3.5 before the transfer.

    Careful of the ribbon cable in the OLED 😉

    • KilowogTrout@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I am currently in the process of booting up with my old SSD. Thing is, I thought it was on 3.5, but now i’m not sure. I returned my steam deck since I was in the 14 day return period, so I can’t check. Booting up it taking a while. Been stuck on the steamdeck logo for a few min.

  • KICKASSKC@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is good news in general but bad news for me.

    My LCD deck died about 2 weeks ago out of warranty on a 3.4 stable build, and I have no way to upgrade the firmware to 3.5 to make the transfer compatible.

    I hope im somehow able to still swap in my 2tb ssd and upgrade the the firmware on the oled model…

    • ThrakathCZ@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You should be able to upgrade system offline from SteamOS recovery USB, there is option

      “Reinstall Steam OS - This will reinstall SteamOS on the Steam Deck, while attempting to preserve your games and personal content.”

      https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1B71-EDF2-EB6D-2BB3

      It is also likely that SD-oled will be able boot from old SteamOS drive and then get update via usb-c ethernet connection (Wifi will rather not work because drivers are not present in old OS version)