Because you shouldn't need 100+ games installed and you'd be able to just add NVME via USB Type-C

All motherboards do this, even today. Aren't you just happy installing 47 SATA SSDs, that are just barely faster than an HDD? Come on, it's it's been 15 years, you literally voted for this, with your own wallet.

i guess it s only 1 SSD because it s a small factor device

引用自 Bad 💀 Motha：

Because you shouldn't need 100+ games installed and you'd be able to just add NVME via USB Type-C

You are not wrong per se, but would oculink still work for that or would the overhead not be significant, or is it a better USBC port than I assume on there?

引用自 boffadeez：

So lame, I was going to install an oculink port, extreme cubing ruined :(.

SODIMM but only 1 nvme is hilarious to me.

Please valve make a revision before mass production give us two ports.

What is an Oculink port and why do you want to use it with your cube?

That aside I don't see why they'd need more than one NVME port. Adding more would probably spike the price significantly which they can't afford to do.

引用自 Dusk of Oolacile：

All motherboards do this, even today. Aren't you just happy installing 47 SATA SSDs, that are just barely faster than an HDD? Come on, it's it's been 15 years, you literally voted for this, with your own wallet.

No, all motherboards do not do this. SATA SSD are barely faster than an HDD? That's an interesting take.

引用自 pwnograffik：

引用自 Dusk of Oolacile：

All motherboards do this, even today. Aren't you just happy installing 47 SATA SSDs, that are just barely faster than an HDD? Come on, it's it's been 15 years, you literally voted for this, with your own wallet.

No, all motherboards do not do this. SATA SSD are barely faster than an HDD? That's an interesting take.

Does that guy even know what he's talking about? Maybe never used sata ssds or something. Most users don't need or benefit from NVME speeds at all and neither do Games. It's just the industry standard now is all. Like for Laptops for example 2x M2 can take the space of what a physical SATA drive would occupy.

But yea I don't see why Steam Machine wouldn't or couldn't have a 2nd free M2 Slot available. That's just stupid. But it's probably due to having to use a very low budget Motherboard design and a 2nd M2 slot is probably used by onboard WiFi + BT

引用自 Bad 💀 Motha：

Because you shouldn't need 100+ games installed and you'd be able to just add NVME via USB Type-C

First off they make big NVMEs as well a NVME to six sata adapters so space itself isnt THAT big of a concern.

Second, bad reasoning. I literally have something like 250ish games installed now because I'm on a GAMING PC.

引用自 Dusk of Oolacile：

All motherboards do this, even today. Aren't you just happy installing 47 SATA SSDs, that are just barely faster than an HDD? Come on, it's it's been 15 years, you literally voted for this, with your own wallet.

What? My board has 3 NVMEs and its an ITX. Also sata SSDs perform SIGNIFICANTLY faster than platter drives by ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE. No idea where you got your ideas from.

引用自 The_Abortionator：

引用自 Bad 💀 Motha：

Because you shouldn't need 100+ games installed and you'd be able to just add NVME via USB Type-C

First off they make big NVMEs as well a NVME to six sata adapters so space itself isnt THAT big of a concern.

Second, bad reasoning. I literally have something like 250ish games installed now because I'm on a GAMING PC.

Yes I realize many of us want to do that but that's why we build our own or at least buy a PC with full ATX instead of MicroATX crap. I have found many times ITX board were often better and more robust and feature rich compared to MicroATX.

I have about 400 games installed. 3x NVME ssds and an 8TB Sata SSD

Now all used for games as I do use the PC for many other things.

Many seem to want a "it just works" kind of PC, then why not a PS5 with a USB game adapter for Keyboard and Mouse and then while yes the console does still bave settings to tinker with you as a user won't have to worry about WinOS, SteamOS, Linux... XBX/PS5 you still bave an overlay; which means web browser, ability to bring up things like YouTube, Spotify, etc. Even do Game Recording or even live streaming to Twitch/YouTube

引用自 Dusk of Oolacile：

All motherboards do this, even today. Aren't you just happy installing 47 SATA SSDs, that are just barely faster than an HDD? Come on, it's it's been 15 years, you literally voted for this, with your own wallet.

Get a better MB?

I have 3 Gen 4x4 on a now multi year old x570 board.

another limiting factor could be the available PCI-E lanes from the CPU and chipset . if the device goal is to be budget friendly , no surprise it has only 1 NVMe SSD slot . i dont think its a deal breaker .

引用自 xDDD：

引用自 boffadeez：

So lame, I was going to install an oculink port, extreme cubing ruined :(.

SODIMM but only 1 nvme is hilarious to me.

Please valve make a revision before mass production give us two ports.

What is an Oculink port and why do you want to use it with your cube?

That aside I don't see why they'd need more than one NVME port. Adding more would probably spike the price significantly which they can't afford to do.

Oculink is a PCIe > External interface. Its used mainly for eGPU enclosures. He wants to use the cube with an egpu, which frankly is silly af and makes basically no logical sense. Maybe if it were a mobile device like the deck.

But he is basically purposely wanting to buy a static deployed small form factor electronic device, and then connect it via a cable to a second device of equal or larger size, with its own dedicated PSU and cooling (and card) all to get less performance than he could get if he just built an ITX system.

This combo makes sense for laptops or mobiles, where one pops the machine off the dock for on the go use, and then docks for higher performance. But aside from taking the cube to LAN parties (remember those? Who has actually been to one recently?) I cant think of any reason for one to do this.

引用自 smallcat：

another limiting factor could be the available PCI-E lanes from the CPU and chipset . if the device goal is to be budget friendly , no surprise it has only 1 NVMe SSD slot . i dont think its a deal breaker .

The onboard GPU would only need 8 lanes at most and then 4 for the SSD. Maybe 1 more for the WIFI + BT. There really is not reason they can't squeeze in a 2nd M2 slot for NVME SSD

引用自 Bad 💀 Motha：

引用自 The_Abortionator：

First off they make big NVMEs as well a NVME to six sata adapters so space itself isnt THAT big of a concern.

Second, bad reasoning. I literally have something like 250ish games installed now because I'm on a GAMING PC.

Yes I realize many of us want to do that but that's why we build our own or at least buy a PC with full ATX instead of MicroATX crap. I have found many times ITX board were often better and more robust and feature rich compared to MicroATX.

I have about 400 games installed. 3x NVME ssds and an 8TB Sata SSD

Now all used for games as I do use the PC for many other things.

Many seem to want a "it just works" kind of PC, then why not a PS5 with a USB game adapter for Keyboard and Mouse and then while yes the console does still bave settings to tinker with you as a user won't have to worry about WinOS, SteamOS, Linux... XBX/PS5 you still bave an overlay; which means web browser, ability to bring up things like YouTube, Spotify, etc. Even do Game Recording or even live streaming to Twitch/YouTube

Consoles will never be as good as a PC period.