His advice: dont do it.

It seems to mostly work fine except for making the heat spreader bow a bit.

Hi, kindly dont do this.

Steam Deck - a view of the interior of the Steam Deck with its rear case plate removed.

The charger IC gets very hot and nearby thermal pads should not be moved.

In addition, most 2242 m.2 drives draw more power and get hotter than what Deck is designed for.

With storage specifically, though, Id still argue that most folk are better off justgetting a microSD card.

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