Old one died after 6 years of loyal service, what broke is the plastic at the top that holds the metal red and top in place, so right ear hangs now.
Bought a new one, absolute love it.
Went all out on the valve steam deck after watching some video's, holy shit that thing plays straight up anything. So love to support it. Sadly the top version of it 512gb is low on space, rather had they offered a 1tb version, so i ordered the 64gb model and will just open it and replace the SSD with 1tb 5gb/s nvme ssd, and add 150mb/s 512gb SD card. So 1,5tb space is nice.
Kit to open the steam deck with to replace the SSD.
The 512gb SD.
Docking station, so i can connect keyboard + mouse + external HDD towards it and hook up a big screen if needed.
1TB nvme 4.0 SSD at 5gb/s ( bit overkill on speed side as it will cap on the 3.0 bus, but i want all the speed i can get )
3x 32gb usb 3.0 sticks, having installs of windows etc always packed with the deck if needed, same goes for recovery tools etc.
usb 3.0 to ubs-c for the deck.
Simple cheap mouse, will do the trick.
Trashcan keyboard, but will do the job.
Total cost 850 euro. Bit overboard, but fuck nvidia for its price hike, had the money left over for a new 4000 series GPU, but aint paying there shit prices. Decking out a steam deck it is.