had a bitch of a time until grading some Lenovo laptops because of this shit form factor. Glad to see someone is finally making something to upgrade them. Not we just gotta stop laptop manufactures from soldering ram to the mb.

[-] PeachMan@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago

How long ago was that? There are suddenly a lot of 2230 drives available this year, I assume because of the Steam Deck. WD wants a piece of that pie. 🤤

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Like 2 months ago. I found a bunch of unknown random Chinese brands, wouldn't trust them to sell to companies for upgrades though. The 2230 was either massively inflated cost due to Lenovo branded, or unknown brand.

[-] PeachMan@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Lots of reasonable 2230s available today from Micron, Teamgroup, Inland. The nicer ones from Samsung and other reputable brands will be double the price, yes. And even the cheap ones will be more expensive than a standard M.2 SSD. Miniaturization costs money, they're more expensive to make. We'll have to see how WD's prices are, but I assume they'll be higher like Samsung.

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

For me personally, I don't really care about brand. For my clients, I don't want callbacks from mystery brands like teamgroup...or inland. They really don't sound reliable. That was my issue with finding them.

[-] PeachMan@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah I wouldn't get cheap brands for clients. But I do buy them for myself (and I make sure they're backed up).

[-] dudewitbow@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

There are definately many more 2230 options 2 months ago. Handheld demand and side demand from the framework 16 (as 1 of its 2 ssd slots is 2230)

Off the top of my head, framework has already been stocking wd 2230s, Micron was already on the market, as well as Sabrent.

I would also think others like Corsair, Teamgroup, kingston and such all now have offerings.

[-] HUMAN_TRASH@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Sabrent released their Rocket 2230 in December 2022, I believe they released their rocket q version a few months ago. I believe Samsung has 2230 drives as well but I think they're oem so idk about performance...

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 11 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Western Digital is launching its new SN770M NVMe SSD, designed specifically for devices like the Steam Deck and ROG Ally.

The small M.2 2230 form factor drives will be available in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB options, allowing handheld gamers to significantly upgrade their storage.

Replacing the SSD inside a Steam Deck has always been relatively easy work, but finding M.2 2230 drives hasn’t always been quite as easy.

These smaller drives aren’t typically sold to consumers and are usually found inside Dell and Microsoft Surface laptops instead.

Sabrent, Micron, Corsair, and others sell M.2 2230 drives, and Framework even started selling its own 2TB upgrade drive earlier this year.

Western Digital entering this market is a good sign for handheld gaming, particularly with quality drives that offer speeds of up to 5,150 MB/s based on PCIe Gen 4.

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[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean we've had Sabrent, Corsair and other 2230 drives for a good while now. Don't know why WD making one is suddenly news.

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 4 points 1 year ago

It's an ad basically.

[-] hogart@feddit.nu 4 points 1 year ago

I bought a Corsair one a couple of months ago and it's been a godsend. The Deck even got notably faster for example when switching to desktop mode.

Love it.

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Awesome. More competition means economies of scale and the potential to get the price down at some point.

A lot of this storage doesn't need the physical space (shown by people literally cutting down PCBs before there was real availability), so just the volume of the SKU should help a lot.