I found this one, for example but I don't know the brand.
The only 2240 SSD of a company I know on Amazon Italy is Kingston, but has the wrong screw placements.
ROG Ally owner here - I come in peace. I know many ROG Ally users in r/rogally were reporting they purchased a Sabrent SSD to throw in their Allies (is that the plural?) and I hadn't seen any reports of issues there, for what it's worth.
I hope that bullshit doesn't come to Lemmy. It doesn't matter if you have a SD or a Ally, play on PC or console, etc. All have cons and pros and you should be able to discuss about, whatever your situation is. I hated that so much on Reddit.
Genuine curiosity - how do you cope without the trackpads on the Deck? They're so useful in game for mouse based games (e.g. No Man's Sky and Guild Wars 2), and useful out of game for fiddly pointing e.g. when in desktop mode.
The Ally looks cool, but the absence of at least one makes it look like a non-starter (not that I'm trying toove on from my Deck anyway).
Well, I've never owned a Steamdeck, so I guess ignorance is bliss in this case; I don't know what I'm missing. I really try to find games that work best with a controller to play on my Ally. There are plenty of games that require a keyboard and mouse, and I'll either use my desktop or dock my Ally, but again, I got it for the controller games.
I never used the trackpad in NMS on the steam deck. Never even thought about it. I've generally found the SD trackpad too fiddly for mouse games and I usually get tired of playing them pretty quickly.
The trackpad are much more useful in desktop mode on the Steam Deck, and that's where I really feel them missing on the Ally. It's actually really tough, because the Ally is an amazing PC. Just as a straight up windows PC, it is incredibly fast, quiet, and has 4k120 output. It is better than any laptop I've ever owned. It runs Cinebench multicore at nearly 6x the speed as my Surface Book 2. Single core performance is comparable to my desktop with a 5900X. If it had a damn trackpad I would make it my only computer. As it is I'll probably return it because the steam deck is more pleasant to use as a handheld gaming machine.
It's faster and more power efficient than the stock one, name brand, cheaper than most, and I haven't heard any failure reports about it.
The Sabrent Rocket one you linked I have seen a lot of reports of it dying and complaints that Sabrent didn't honor the warranty, but it's hard to know how widespread issues like that actually are. The corsair one hasn't been out as long, so it's possible there's just been less time for negative reports to show up.
Sabrent is a well known company and, while I personally don't have experience with their stuff, LTT often uses their ssd for builds.
Right now I'm on one of those dodgy 256gb Kingdata... under the sticker it was all Micron number parts so at least the one I got is fine. But I'm looking forward prime day to see if I can get a tb of something more reputable XD
I went for the Corsair MP600 Mini, but I can't give you any feedback about it yet, cause I'm still waiting for some tools to arrive before I can install it.
Just put one in my Deck. Works great, and actually seems faster than the stock SSD, though I haven't benchmarked either.
Only issue I had was that my USB to NVMe M.2 enclosure couldn't read it for some reason. Had to swap it into my Deck, put the Deck's SSD in the enclosure, and then boot a Linux USB to DD clone to the new SSD.
No idea why my enclosure had issues, as it's definitely not an M.2 SATA enclosure or something. I have a different enclosure for SATA drives.
I hope that bullshit doesn't come to Lemmy. It doesn't matter if you have a SD or a Ally, play on PC or console, etc. All have cons and pros and you should be able to discuss about, whatever your situation is. I hated that so much on Reddit.
(I got a Corsair. It's okay, their best feature is that you can buy it direct. The worst feature is that if there's a firmware update, it's strictly through Windows. And most links to the Corsair Flash Tool go to a 404. Super. Competent.)