This fantastic Crucial P310 SFF SSD is ideal for handheld consoles and is an Amazon bargain
2TB on the cheap.
With AAA games pushing triple figures in size these days, it's arguably more important than ever to have as much storage as possible to prevent any unneeded juggling of games. Handily, we've seen prices drop on bulk storage solutions, both for PCs and smaller options, such as handheld game consoles, making it cheaper and easier to install more storage than ever before.
This is quite a pertinent point, as we've seen one of the best Steam Deck SSDs money can buy, the Crucial P310 in its capacious 2TB form drop down to just £121 in a rare discount. It also marks out its best price in 2025 so far.
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Crucial P310 2TB SSD (Up to 7100MB/s, M2 2230)Now £120.70 (was £130.00) |
It's an ideal choice to chuck into your Steam Deck, ROG Ally or similar because it's a smaller form factor. Usually NVMe SSDs are 22x80mm in size (hence the 2280 form factor), but options such as the Micron 2400 are 22x30mm are smaller, and designed to fit into diddy spaces, such as into the Steam Deck or ROG Ally.
As well as being the ideal size, this 2TB P310 choice also provides a solid upgrade in terms of speed. It's rated for max reads of 7100MB/s when hooked up to a PCIe 4.0 port, although you'll probably see closer to 3500MB/s given that the Steam Deck is limited to PCIe 3.0 speeds by virtue of its interface. Regardless, this is still quicker than the Steam Deck's built in SSD with its speeds of up to 2500MB/s, as well as giving you at least double the storage over the top-end 1TB OLED model. Otherwise, it's a four-fold increase over the 512GB model. If you've got an older 64GB or 128GB model, you'll see the biggest gains from capacity. Those with a base 64GB LCD model will also see larger gains in terms of speed, too, given it uses slower eMMC storage that maxes out at 300MB/s. Whichever model you're moving from though, you're going to see excellent gains in both speed and capacity.
Of course, the only thing to keep in mind with a Steam Deck SSD upgrade is that it's a bit more involved than slotting in one of the quickest micro SD cards for Steam Deck. You'll need to carefully take the Steam Deck apart following this handy iFixit guide, which walks you through accessing the internals, carefully removing a heatsink, disconnecting the battery and swapping the drive. From here, you can use a USB flash drive to reinstall SteamOS. If you've worked on a desktop computer or laptop before, then this isn't any more difficult - it's just a bit fiddlier due to the smaller sizes. I'd say it's still very achieveable, you just need a bit of patience and a few tools!
If you want a lot of speedy storage for your Steam Deck or ROG Ally to put lots of games on, this 2TB Crucial P310 SSD is a steal from Amazon.