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Just a quick question that someone here may know: I have a Steam Machine coming and I'm looking to swap the SSD in my Steam Deck (2 TB) with the SSD in the Steam Machine (512 GB). As far as I know, the SM comes with a 2230 SSD so it'll fit in the Steam Deck, but I'm curious if the install is different enough that I should backup and re-image the 2 TB drive before I put it in the Steam Machine or if I can just swap the two drives.

I'm assuming I have to re-image each drive with a SteamOS USB installer, but if I could just hotswap them it'd make life easier. Just not sure how much device-specific code is part of the install.

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There could be driver issues for the difrerent Hardware devices, most likely it will run just fine, but you may have performance impacts you later dont know where they are comming from. Reinstalling is the safe way, if you dont want to redownload all games, you can copy the steam games folder