Personal preference really. But it comes down to your willingness and confidence to open the deck. I personally bought the 512gb deck originally to specifically avoid needing to do this in the first place. I have a 512gb sd card with my 512 gb deck and that’s been plenty for games I want installed as well as an emulation library of games I’m likely to want to play. It’s been good so far.

A big contributing factor to this plan for me was the fact that the original deck uses plastic screw stems and self tapping screws for assembly. And not brass inserts and machine screws. The new OLED Deck now uses insets and machine screws, so I am more likely to go out and get a nice 2TB drive for that when it arrives.

The more limited space does make me think a little more about what I want to play though.