1mo ago

Swapping LCD drive into new OLED

So this is probably a dumb question, but I got a refurbished OLED and plan to pop my 2tb drive from my LCD model into the new OLED.

This should just be plug and play right? I don't see anything about the OLED decks using a different OS or firmware or anything.

EDIT: Thanks for the feedback y'all! I'm going to try it and see what happens. I'll report back if anything funky happens. Not a big deal if I end up needing to reformat the drive.

EDIT2: Replaced the stock OLED drive with the 2tb drive from the LCD this morning, and so far so good - no issues to report.

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I’ve cloned drives from an existing steam deck onto another brand new drive for a new steam deck. The swap you are doing should work the same without issue.

Dont know if it will work, but I think it's worth a try. If it doesn't work you can reset it or swap it back

Yeah I did exactly that. It just needs an update afterwards.

I did exactly what you are planning to do. I had put a 2TB drive in my LCD and just swapped it to a new OLED. It asked me to update as soon as it was installed, but it worked just fine.

I've cloned a drive from my LCD to use in my OLED. It's mostly fine, but occasionally (every few days), the interface would crash. Weirdly, those crashes went away with time, so maybe an update resolved the crashing I was experiencing?
If you want to reliably leave your games on standby for any amount of time, it's probably best to use a fresh image instead of reusing the existing installation from the LCD model.

I've done this one Linux desktop and had zero issues. It was 100% plug and play. SteamOS is Arch Linux with some modifications. So, I'm pretty sure it'll be fine. If anything, put back the old drive.

Replaced the stock OLED drive with the 2tb drive from the LCD this morning, and so far so good - no issues to report.
Even my modded games (New Vegas, Witcher 3) carried over with no problems.

Hear me out: install Bazzite & cut paste your old home folder into your fresh install using an nvme enclosure.
- Why?
  
  Bleeding edge kernal, atomic distro which means more power & customizability to the user.

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