Upgrading your Steam Deck?

ifixit? It's hands down the best general resource for repairability stuff and also incredibly trustworthy. I'm sure I can go several minutes gushing about how great this company is and how you should buy their tool kits even though they are expensive and not actually worth the price but it's for supporting a greater cause and you get lifetime warranty. You could have found thousands and thousands of thread about ifixit, they're incredibly well known.

On the actual guide, they can be hit or miss since there's guides for a lot of items and not all of them are as detailed as this one. Just follow the written guide or watch the video, whatever you find it more helpful. And any snags you hit that you aren't sure about, you can always just google it. All you have to do is be careful. Repairing an item may seem "scary" in the sense that you are messing with the magical internals of a couple hundred dollar device but it actually isn't scary. It's quite difficult to do cosmetic or functional damage (in my experience with moderate and below repairability score items) to an item when repairing.

Can't say, i got a 512gb immediately (i should have just done an upgrade too) but haven't touched mine more then 2 times.

I know a friend that bought a second hand 1tb (i borrowed him money to get it, even though i was low myself) but he is very happy about it.

It's actually quite easy? It took me... a few hours because one ribbon cable was tucked away too much so I couldn't get it out bit it's not really that hard. Also, be careful while opening it (i.e. taking off the plastic back) but not too much - some force is needed and it took me longer because I was scared not to break it. :D

Any tutorial will do just fine, it's not really that big of a deal.

Very easy to upgrade if you have the right screwdrivers, with the wrong ones the screws will get stripped easily and it's a big problem

I hope they one day release a Steam Duck

I was initially going to upgrade mine but then i thought about saving the money instead for a future handheld.

The reason i quit on the idea of upgrading my 64gb storage:
-steam deck, despite being a good handheld it still lacks raw performance so i don't see much of a reason to invest on more storage if the handheld is more or less lacking, this is why i use it mostly to play backlog games that aren't too taxing on the hardware (i've tried playing BG3 for example, deck was struggling to maintain 30fps and the battery goes out fairly quick)
-i have 2 SD cards, 128gb and 256gb, both being used by switch and deck. I have also 3 external drives, 2 HDDs used for xbox one and ps4 generations and a SSD i used on pc, these things can be used on the deck (yes i have a dock)

My idea is to buy a new handheld soon, i would very much like a new steam deck with the new ryzen lineup coming later this year, the performance uplift would be nuts and would justify buying SD2. If there is no SD2 this year or the next, i will settle down on a different handheld running a next gen APU.

So as it is, steam deck is a nice handheld to play games that are not so demanding. I don't like the idea of playing for ~90 minutes and the battery is gone, so now i have to either stop playing or play with a cable that is pissing me off at times because it does not allow me to move at all when i am in bed or sitting in the couch. Since i used the deck for not as demanding games, there is no reason to upgrade... I've looked into potentially buying a steam deck with modified ram (24gb or 32gb, the additional ram helps with some demanding games running much smoother, but the battery life is still an issue). But then again, investing this kind of money on more ram, it really is just easier to wait and buy something new later on.

I upgraded 2 Steam decks from 64gb to 512Gb, this quite easy only issue that it take me some time to find compatible pen drive.adapter USB C to USB A to install OS.

Really the only thing to be warry of is the deck lcd has terrible soft screws so be careful with those.

It's a easy thing to do. I got the 512GB LCD when was still on preorder, i didn't want to thinker too much with the device.

If you have a MicroSD, remember to take it out before you open the Steam Deck or it will snap in half.

I put 1TB the day I got mine, it was quite easy-over-all, but I had a little trouble booting the USB recovery image. If you can try to get a USB 3 device, otherwise it will be horrifyingly slow. I didn't have a USB 3 boot device so mine took over 20 minutes to load the OS. After installing the recovery image it all worked well though. No issues going on 2.5 years now.

I upgraded my 512GB LCD to 2TB and it was easy enough with my low technical skill. Also then moved that 2TB into my OLED, which was a tiny bit more difficult due to an extra / moved ribbon cable.
Both times flashing the new OS was a bit of a pain, with a few points that seemed like it had frozen. Hopefully that's improved.

Hmm might get a steam deck now that I know that I can upgrade it!