With a simple modification, Storage Review successfully connected a Valve Steam Deck handheld gaming console to the world's highest capacity SSD, the massive 61.44 TB variant of the Solidigm D5-P5336. The Steam Deck is essentially a compact x86-64 PC powered by an AMD Ryzen mobile processor, equipped with an industry standard PCIe interface for its onboard M.2-2230 NVMe SSD. By using a basic adapter that converts M.2 to U.2 (the interface of the D5-P5336), Storage Review was able to seamlessly integrate the Steam Deck with the SSD.
Out of the box, the Steam Deck comes with Valve's SteamOS, but it is relatively simple to install Windows and use the Steam application to access its user interface. This allows users to play almost any Windows PC game that is not yet available on SteamOS. A quick benchmark test using KDiskMark (the Linux equivalent of CDM) revealed that the D5-P5336 achieved sequential read speeds of 3.6 GB/s and sequential write speeds of 2.8 GB/s. However, there is a caveat. It is not practical to carry the D5-P5336 along with the Steam Deck, as this Solidigm drive is designed for servers and requires a U.2 enclosure for power input in addition to the U.2 connection.
