SYONCON AP425 M.2 2230 SSD NVMe PCIe Gen 3.0X4 Internal Solid State Drive Compatible with Steam Deck/Microsoft Surface pro 8/pro 7+/pro X/laptop3/laptop4/laptop go/book3 (512GB)

I wish I could tell you how well this drive works in a Steam Deck but I dont have one. However, I love that the Steam Deck it, along with the Surface Pro, will drive the industry to produce more M.2 2230 size drives and the price for them will come down. I have the 256GB SYONCON AP425 M.2 2230 SSD that I popped into a USB external enclosure to serve as a portable drive. In this configuration, it will serve well as a drive for backing up my various projects but it would also be a great solution for Teslas sentry mode/dashcam features. It has good speed through the enclosure and seems to be fairly reliable. In terms of its price, it is on par with other 2230 drives out there so this drive is basically run-of-the-mill, but I dont see anything wrong with that. It works and it isnt too expensive. Theres nothing to complain about. Ive only found one USB enclosure that is made only for a 2230 drive though. All other enclosures are made to fit the bigger 2280 drives. To make this drive truly portable, I would still need to find a smaller case.

El reemplazo de la unidad fue un éxito, estoy muy contento porque funciona de maravilla en mi Surface Pro 8 de Microsoft, Excelente Producto, congrats!!!!!!!

I purchased to upgrade the drive in my steam deck. I can confirm that the drive does the job handily! I didn’t bother with any technical tests as there were already some results posted here. I haven’t had any issues and the drive for correctly seated in the device.

Great for steam deck users

I wish I had gotten a larger model but this thing absolutely performs up to spec. And the most amazing thing about it is whatever they are using for thermal management is works very well and it never gets nearly as hot as my other SSD drives. That’s a tremendous bonus. I guess because this is made to go into specific gaming devices they need a stricter thermal management system. For now I’m just using it in a portable enclosure. Because that enclosure has a heat sink I can feel the heat come through the case and I’m not feeling a lot with this drive, even when it’s in continuous operation for a while. I’m gonna end up putting this in a custom music player as storage. It will be much more responsive than an SD card and it will still have very small power consumption and not put out much heat. And it will transfer music many times faster than flash cards. I typically would not buy SSD from names I don’t recognize. But so far this thing is working well and I will keep the review updated to let people know if there were any problems going forward. But for now I’m pretty impressed with this.

Bought the base model steam deck, then replaced the 64gb ssd with this 512gb ssd. Works perfectly. If youre looking for how to do it, check out Ifixit for tips.

A bit slower than the other drives available but it works. But spend a bit more $ and get the Corsair since it come out. This works well for what it is. Runs fine.

Put this in my Steam Deck to go from 256 to 512GB and install Windows. Drive was easy to install and I had no issues getting Windows installed on it. Performance and power consumption seem to be great on the Steam Deck on Windows 11 Pro.

picked this up to upgrade my 64gb deck to 512gb. so far i havent had any issues and the games run smoothly. def recommend for the price.

This SSD is awesome and a great value. Im using it on my steam currently and it works perfectly.