• misk@piefed.socialOP
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      5 days ago

      Silver lining is that at least you can buy a regular M2 NVME SSD, unlike with Xbox. Had to pay something like €150 for a proprietary 1TB drive because of my life choices T_T

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        4 days ago

        For the main drive, there’s nothing proprietary about it - it’s an M.2 2230 SSD, just like the Surface laptops, Steam Deck, and many other devices. It’s just more work to get to and I believe it might be necessary to do a sector based clone through a computer to get things working.

        Expansion Cards are technically a CFExpress card in a custom casing, it’s a bit funny that a CFExpress card of the same capacity actually costs quite a lot more.

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          3 days ago

          I’ve looked into this back in the day and once you factor in price of the adapter it comes to a similar cost and looks really clunky. Even though looks don’t matter because it’s at the rear, I’d be worried I’d break it because it protrudes so much.

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            3 days ago

            Ah, you’re referring to the storage expansion.

            The economics are really in favor of the Seagate / WD Products anyways. At $280 retail for 2TB, you’re actually well below the median price of 2TB CFExpress cards.

            Still would have preferred a more common format, obviously