This 3rd-occasion Steam Deck dock adds an M.2 SSD expansion slot

You still just cannot get the formal Steam Deck Dock from Valve, presumably because the corporation is too occupied earning a bajillion real Steam Decks. But, of training course, exactly where there are portable activity machines, there are odd very little businesses ready and willing to offer you bizarre minimal devices that plug into them. In this case, that business is Jsaux, a name as unfamiliar to me as it is to my spell examine. It is offering a Steam Deck dock with a designed-in M.2 port for quick sound point out storage growth.

See, the formal Steam Deck Dock is in essence just a fancy USB-C dock with an awkward cable for the gadget’s best-mounted port. A number of companies have by now replicated this — you can come across a lot of examples on Amazon, featuring uncomplicated access to HDMI-out and USB ports for add-ons. The Jsaux dock one particular-ups them with home for an M.2 SSD at up to 80mm extensive (the preferred 2280 regular). It’s an quick and cheap way to increase some storage to your Steam Deck, which maxes out at just 512GB and isn’t effortless to enhance.

Truly utilizing that storage for large-close gaming even though docked may well not be simple. The dock works by using an older Gen3 PCIe bus and, due to the limitations of the Steam Deck’s USB-C port, the connection maxes out at 900MB/s (as mentioned by Tom’s Hardware). But even so, it could be a wonderful way to include some rapid media storage or transfer all around individuals large present day video game information without re-downloading them from Steam. The dock also functions an HDMI port that can deal with 4K at 60Hz or 2K at 120Hz, hardwired gigabit Ethernet, and two USB-A ports for components. If you are so inclined, the dock also will work with Android and iPad gadgets rocking USB-C.

The HB0604 dock is available from Jsaux’s site now for a sensible $100. It also comes bundled with 1TB and 2TB SSDs for $170 and $240, respectively.