There’s been a lot of exciting news from Valve in this past week with the company’s announcement of brand new hardware including a new controller, new VR peripherals, and a new home gaming console. What paved the way for the Steam Controller, Steam Frame, sand Steam Machine is of course the success of Valve’s handheld gaming PC — the Steam Deck. Valve has given gamers a great new way to experience every game on their platform on the go with the Steam Deck, but if you want to play more and more stuff, you’re going to want to expand your storage.
Amazon right now happens to have the Crucial P310 SSD on sale. Black Friday weekend is still almost two full weeks away, but that hasn’t stopped the price of this Steam Deck gaming drive from dropping by as much as 46%. Right now, you can get the 1TB version on sale for $50, bringing the price down from $135 to just $85. For even more storage, you can also grab the 2TB version for $110 off, bringing the price down from $240 to just $130.
This PCIe Gen4 2230 NVMe M.2 SSD is a lot smaller than a typical internal drive because it’s built with handheld gaming PCs in mind—perfect for taking your entire library with you when you’re traveling.
The Steam Deck comes in three models with different storage options. The LCD version only gives you 256GB, while the OLED bumps that up to either 512GB or 1TB. The ROG Ally and the newer ROG Xbox Ally both ship with 512GB. If that’s not nearly enough space for the games you want on hand, the Crucial P310 SSD is an easy upgrade. Installing it takes about five minutes tops, and then you’re off with way more room to work with.
Even though the Crucial P310 is mainly aimed at the Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally, it also works with a handful of laptops, including some Microsoft Surface devices and certain Dell models.
Power-efficient Design
Performance-wise, the drive can hit read and write speeds up to 7,100 MB/s, so load times are nice and quick. It’s also designed to be power-efficient, which is great for keeping energy use down. Less power draw means less strain on your battery means longer game sessions. You can keep gaming without worrying about your handheld dying too soon.
For a limited time, you can save big on one of these Crucial P310 gaming SSDs, getting it for as low as just $85. A small price to pay for being able to keep double or triple the number of games on your Steam Deck.
