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External storage on Steam OS is a problem (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Hi everyone!

First of all, I wanna say that I love my Steam Deck and Linux. I'm spending 90% of my gaming time on the Deck.

That being said, the external storage situation on Steam OS is really shitty and it makes me understand why some people just stick to normal consoles.

I've been using external storage for years on Playstation and never encountered a problem which made me reinstall everything.

In around a month, it happened to me twice on Steam OS.

All the Steam games on my external drive just disappeared and Retrodeck tells me that (probably because of an update to Steam OS) it can't find my rom folders anymore.

Such things makes me look stupid when I'm trying to show my son how kind of "better" the Steam Deck is compared to my Playstation 5.

I've seen that Valve is saying that we shouldn't rely on external storage, but there is no real choice now that game are taking so much space and with only 256gb at my disposal in the Deck. I hope they'll improve this with the launch of Steam Machine as it'd be a big step toward an almost console like experience.

Would having an SD card be safer than an external hard drive in such situation?

Buying more internal storage is a solution that I'd want to avoid as it would only be usable with one device..

Edit: this time just restarting the Deck solved the problem as the disk wasn’t mounted. Last time, the disk was mounted but the Deck couldn’t find the right path towards my games..

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[–] pogodem0n@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I believe Steam Deck officially supports only Micro SD cards. I used one for about six months and had no issues.

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I've had a pair of 512GB SD cards for 3 years now and they've worked fine all this time, but I've also dinked around with USB SSDs and haven't had any issues!

Something that might help is to name the drive(s) in the disk manager, as I believe it mounts it to a more consistent directory when it's named (not 100% sure though). This is how I do it just for organization's sake; unsure if it'll help the disk issues 🤷‍♂️🤔