You might want to check your Steam Deck SSD spec.
, and told us that"in extremely uncommon cases, differences in read/write speed caps may minimally impact file transfer speeds, but OS performance, loading times, game performance, and game responsiveness are identical between the x2 and x4 drives.", there's something you should know. Valve recently tweaked the listed specs, meaning you could potentially land a model with a downgraded SSD.
The change affects the 256GB and 512GB devices, but not all of them, so you won't know if you're getting the slower storage until you actually have it in your hands. The news slipped under the radar, but apparently Valve did some testing and, in late May, decided that some Steam Decks would be coming with a PCI express 3.0 x2 SSD instead of the initially specified x4 SSD.
Using only two lanes of the PCIe interface means the drive has half the potential bandwidth of a four lane connection. And SSDs specced out with a x2 interface are generally slower in themselves, too.
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