First! Looks good, might pick one up. Thank you for the great content.

[ 2022-10-14 11:36:25Z ] 👍 1

Thanks for watching!

Can you test it with different devices and different chargers? There are reports of the previous version spoiling Aya Neo devices and jsaux seems to be claiming that this is due to unsupported device, not using "official charger" or charger is more than 50w etc (even though they keep advertising support for 100W) When most other usb c hubs would just work fine with any usb c/usb pd compatible devices.

[ 2022-10-14 12:25:22Z ] 👍 0

@@gamingonlinux those few I read about actually uses the official Aya neo charger that come with their device's. But thanks for the information.

[ 2022-10-14 11:44:49Z ] 👍 4

I've never, ever, had an issue across three different JSAUX docks with this. People seem to keep buying really bad quality chargers. You pay for what you get.

i am interested in the experience when docking and undocking. does the drive get mounted and recognized automatically? do you have to unmount it before putting it into sleep mode or before undocking?

[ 2022-10-14 12:18:06Z ] 👍 5

@@francopanigaia2425 An added note: it will remove it as the default though each time you remove it. A minor thing, but something to be aware of.

[ 2022-10-14 11:48:16Z ] 👍 1

@@gamingonlinux thanks for the quick reply!

[ 2022-10-14 11:44:04Z ] 👍 6

I've not seen any issues with hotplugging the dock, the drive is re-read just fine.

So glad you made this video! I recently purchased this dock and was hoping I didn't jump the gun. You just eased some of my fears! Thanks! Your content is great!

[ 2022-10-24 17:55:25Z ] 👍 0

It takes a fair bit of work and have choices between doing the sudo fu yourself, or using the install kit from Jsaux and reading the instructions. As noted, in Desktop Mode, creating the partition on the KDE partition manager does create the partition, but the partition choices may affect permissions and may not allow read/write permissions unless created or edited with those permissions

You didnt peel off the plastic on the other side of the heat pad

[ 2022-10-14 13:07:57Z ] 👍 0

@@gamingonlinux movie magic

[ 2022-10-14 11:56:28Z ] 👍 1

I know don't worry it was just showing it for the video :)

For 130usd i will just get the official dock and grab a usb to nvme enclosure and save myself 50

[ 2022-10-14 17:42:45Z ] 👍 0

@@Taichums its cheaper because it doesn't come with a charger like the official one. it also requires windows for firmware updates, and that might not be an issue for a lot of steam deck owners but I do not use windows.

[ 2022-10-14 15:36:26Z ] 👍 1

Plus you get more USB ports and an extra display output

[ 2022-10-14 15:26:21Z ] 👍 0

@@Taichums Valve or nothing baby looks like you aren’t a true Gaben believer and for that I banish you from this realm skid.

[ 2022-10-14 15:24:53Z ] 👍 0

My man

[ 2022-10-14 12:15:23Z ] 👍 4

How are you saving 50 bucks? Do you know what's usually the price of a good nvme enclosure? Plus, will it look as slick? Having the nvme drive within the dock itself removes unnecessary clutter on your setup. I think the price is justified, it may be a bit on the pricy side but the official dock does not make the price justice specifically. Better go for the basic jsaux dock or even the recently released updated jsaux dock with both hdmi and display port for less than the official dock's MSRP price.

Did you remove both sides of the thermal tape?

[ 2022-10-17 20:52:08Z ] 👍 0

@@gamingonlinux that's fair - just wanted to ask before drawing any conclusions....good video as always! I can't get over that tribal design though - I really wish they hadn't done that!

[ 2022-10-14 14:13:42Z ] 👍 1

Yes, just not shown in the video.

Wait, does this mean a dock with an external GPU is theoretically possible? You can hook up a GPU via the M2 slot inside the Deck, but this would be more useful.

[ 2022-10-24 18:01:22Z ] 👍 0

Gen2 3.1 ports would be a better recommendation to use for plugs, but even then this is untested territory and reports are sparse considering how many people owning external GPUs being used for laptops or other light computers.

[ 2022-10-14 18:02:36Z ] 👍 0

If it was Thunderbolt maybe... but its not, and there isn't enough bandwidth available with that port to run an external GPU that would be any benefit.

[ 2022-10-14 14:26:05Z ] 👍 0

I'd be curious to see this attempted as well, but the spec of the dock throughput is 900mbps which is quite slow.

[ 2022-10-14 13:18:17Z ] 👍 0

I don't believe this would work from what I understand, given the limitations of the USB C port. I don't think it's anything like the internal pci-e m.2 slot, please someone correct me if I am wrong.

1:45 doesn't the heat pad have a protective foil on the top too?

[ 2022-10-14 14:22:38Z ] 👍 2

Yes. I just didn't remove in the video.

Good guide, this should also work for anyone who just adds an external usb plugged drive into a regular dock as well. Out of interest what speeds does the m.2 drive in the dock reach? usb3 speeds or higher?

[ 2022-10-24 17:58:48Z ] 👍 1

according to Jsaux, the M.2 bay has rated continuous speed of 900mb/s, which is slow in comparison to theoretical max of NVMe, but we can get away with use of SATA SSDs if speed is of no issue in a good chunk of games.

[ 2022-10-14 15:38:31Z ] 👍 1

Could be 10 to 20 Gbps as far as i understand ? But afaik, even loading times from the internal m.2 aren't that much faster than from a MicroSD card so the bottleneck is elsewhere. But nevertheless, nice dock if you want to use it!

been waiting 5 days for mine to be processed, it's still sitting in China, hopefully it will be on its way soon...

[ 2022-10-15 00:00:34Z ] 👍 1

It took ~3w to get to Belgium; for me (The previous non-M.2 version - HD0603), in August. Ordered 9th of August, it was sent out on the 17th, and I received it on the 6th of September.

your desktop was super trippy for me. it was 10:45am on Oct 14th when i saw your desktop show 10:55am on Oct 14th.

There's been a lot of those usb-c hubs with m.2 ssd enclosure included, I'm guessing a new chip has arrived which makes building those affordable and easy. I got the Blitzwolf BW-TH13 hub for my desk and it makes sense to have some extra content when docked at home.

[ 2022-10-14 23:11:05Z ] 👍 0

That's what I'm saying. Amazon oughta have a bunch of these....

I'm sure there's already a option to auto mount drive build in

[ 2022-10-14 23:54:10Z ] 👍 0

If you mount the drive & format it while being in SteamOS itself, it'll probably just do it fine.

Well considering how user-friendly valve is, I wouldn't be surprised if we get some updates soon to help with external storage optimization. Valve is a small company that 100,000,000% responds to user feedback and if we want external storage then valve will deliver.

[ 2022-10-24 18:02:58Z ] 👍 0

Valve and 3rd party manufacturers are still working on pushing the dock patching to 3rd party updatable docks.

[ 2022-10-15 23:28:00Z ] 👍 0

I do love Valve, but definitely not a small company lol. They are a corporation that generate billions of dollars, operate internationally, and have almost 400 employees. If that's a small company to you then I wonder a big one is.

Does the Killswitch case fit in these JSAUX docks?

[ 2022-10-24 18:04:43Z ] 👍 0

I have a case, and it only somewhat fits. It stands upright instead of resting against the back, but the intake is fully unobstructed.

[ 2022-10-15 03:11:04Z ] 👍 0

@@aarcas There's a vast load of powered hubs that could probably support you in that, it just won't be "docked" in an upright position.

[ 2022-10-15 01:51:30Z ] 👍 0

@@Xewl That's silly of JSAUX to not support their own case with the dock. I don't like taking the case off whenever I want to dock it either but oh well guess I'll wait for someone to release a docking station that does before I purchase one.

[ 2022-10-14 23:56:11Z ] 👍 1

The JSAUX Protective Standing Case doesn't fit in the HD0604 (which I bought in August, together). Given its thickness looks the same (I ordered my KS case too late to get it right now, it's postponed to Q1-2 afaik); I'll sadly hereby have to tell you that it probably doesn't fit. I don't like taking it off either..

Just when I recently bought the HB0603, there's now this HB0604 with an M.2 slot ánd a HB0702 with DisplayPort. The choices! Wish I could get it AIO xD I agree on the UTP port; I'd rather have it a little bit wider to accommodate for it being on the back. I'd also want to ask for a deeper holder; as I use their own Protective Standing case and it won't even fit the dock.. :/

Can you install and boot Windows from the dock’s SSD?

[ 2022-10-18 12:24:40Z ] 👍 0

If it's possible with an SD card I don't see why not. Look into the software Ventoy to achieve that.

JSAUX are slowly becoming a favorite of mine for tech gadgets. I already got a bunch of their USB type-a to type-c cables for various things, and three kinds of usb-c headphone adapters (a right-angled one, one with a short cable extension and a bigger dongle that allows for charging AND headphone jack use at the same time (tho no data connection sadly)). I also just today ordered a steamdeck dock from them (after an.... episode of the seemingly never ending saga of me failing to find a compatible cooler for my HTPC...)

Hmm Pretty cool but not as cool as the steam dock with free sync 👌🤜🤛

Cheers for being the only person to cover my code that has pronounced my name right :p -scawp

[ 2022-10-16 20:34:53Z ] 👍 0

Well thats a surprise i usually pronounce everything wrong 😅😅

It's amazing what can be done with this thing, great video.

Awesome video.

got it working thanks

Is this compatible with the kill switch case?

[ 2022-11-01 14:09:49Z ] 👍 0

Sorry don't know, dbrand didn't send one to me, I have one ordered but obviously now I have to wait until they fix the magnet issue.

I recently got an external nvme for my Deck and even tho I have been messing with Linux since '07 I still forgot about permissions /facepalm Thanks for the reminder!

[ 2022-12-07 16:39:35Z ] 👍 1

Happy to help dude.

Boom 💥 there go that's what I was looking for thank you 🙏

you made this process very easy to understand. I was very concerned it would be too complicated for me to mess with but now my dock is working flawlessly. Thank you very much

I see you clip and bought it. This dock overheating, have problem with lexar 2tb SSD and it unsuable... Think 2 times before buy it...

I wonder if this'll work with other aftermarket docks with ssd mounts? I got this 512gb ssd i took out my SD after upgrading to 1tb. It won't show up in gaming mode, BUT I haven't tried docked/desktop mode yet. Any thoughts?

I initial got this to work just right. But then after I started downloading games my deck seemingly froze so I turned it off and back on. My new SSD drive was missing again so I placed it in. I got it reconnected, but now it only lists that it has 2.3 GB free and not 1.9 TB. Did I do something wrong?

[ 2023-03-31 21:59:15Z ] 👍 0

Ok, after playing around, I got it to find the SSD again at normal size. I turned it off and took it out and put it back in the dock. See if it'll cooperate with me now. If I remove the deck from the docking station and then return it later, will it auto-connect the the SSD automatically?

So I got a 2230 m.2 2tb nvme on the way and play to install that into my deck and give it full steamOS. Leaving me with the 512gb nvme that came with the deck. If I buy this dock and I do believe that nvme will fit it, can I have windows entirely on that 512gb nvme and use this dock to switch back and forth? Do I still need to follow the script in the video?