PRAISE JEBUS
had a bitch of a time until grading some Lenovo laptops because of this shit form factor. Glad to see someone is finally making something to upgrade them. Not we just gotta stop laptop manufactures from soldering ram to the mb.
How long ago was that? There are suddenly a lot of 2230 drives available this year, I assume because of the Steam Deck. WD wants a piece of that pie. 🤤
Like 2 months ago. I found a bunch of unknown random Chinese brands, wouldn’t trust them to sell to companies for upgrades though. The 2230 was either massively inflated cost due to Lenovo branded, or unknown brand.
Lots of reasonable 2230s available today from Micron, Teamgroup, Inland. The nicer ones from Samsung and other reputable brands will be double the price, yes. And even the cheap ones will be more expensive than a standard M.2 SSD. Miniaturization costs money, they’re more expensive to make. We’ll have to see how WD’s prices are, but I assume they’ll be higher like Samsung.
For me personally, I don’t really care about brand. For my clients, I don’t want callbacks from mystery brands like teamgroup…or inland. They really don’t sound reliable. That was my issue with finding them.
Oh yeah I wouldn’t get cheap brands for clients. But I do buy them for myself (and I make sure they’re backed up).
There are definately many more 2230 options 2 months ago. Handheld demand and side demand from the framework 16 (as 1 of its 2 ssd slots is 2230)
Off the top of my head, framework has already been stocking wd 2230s, Micron was already on the market, as well as Sabrent.
I would also think others like Corsair, Teamgroup, kingston and such all now have offerings.
Sabrent released their Rocket 2230 in December 2022, I believe they released their rocket q version a few months ago. I believe Samsung has 2230 drives as well but I think they’re oem so idk about performance…
DO NOT BUY WD AND SANDISK they are their reputation is horrid
never had a single problem with a wd disk
they literally have a class action against them lmao
Ok…so what do I buy?
Don’t buy anything except a yurt to live on unclaimed federal land. Because these companies are all shit.
Yurts are manufactured with slave labour.
🤨
go to ebay and search kioxia 2230
Kioxia is pretty good
Not sure about their SSDs, but my external WD 1TB HDD works very well for 5+ years
they had some issues in the last 3-4 years
Wasn’t Western Digital just slammed for making piss poor ssd cards?
Buyer beware.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Western Digital is launching its new SN770M NVMe SSD, designed specifically for devices like the Steam Deck and ROG Ally.
The small M.2 2230 form factor drives will be available in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB options, allowing handheld gamers to significantly upgrade their storage.
Replacing the SSD inside a Steam Deck has always been relatively easy work, but finding M.2 2230 drives hasn’t always been quite as easy.
These smaller drives aren’t typically sold to consumers and are usually found inside Dell and Microsoft Surface laptops instead.
Sabrent, Micron, Corsair, and others sell M.2 2230 drives, and Framework even started selling its own 2TB upgrade drive earlier this year.
Western Digital entering this market is a good sign for handheld gaming, particularly with quality drives that offer speeds of up to 5,150 MB/s based on PCIe Gen 4.
The original article contains 172 words, the summary contains 138 words. Saved 20%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
I mean we’ve had Sabrent, Corsair and other 2230 drives for a good while now. Don’t know why WD making one is suddenly news.
It’s an ad basically.
I bought a Corsair one a couple of months ago and it’s been a godsend. The Deck even got notably faster for example when switching to desktop mode.
Love it.
Awesome. More competition means economies of scale and the potential to get the price down at some point.
A lot of this storage doesn’t need the physical space (shown by people literally cutting down PCBs before there was real availability), so just the volume of the SKU should help a lot.
deleted by creator
