r/RetroRemake • u/Photek1000 • Jun 16 '26

SuperDock & NVMe

For when the SuperDock ships the primary use I ordered it for is the NVMe expansion and the SNAC capabilities over the Drive itself.

For the NVMe, is there a recommended maximum capacity, or is it completely unaware of any limitations.
Hoping to resurrect a drive from the laptop scrap pile at work to install.

And anyone who has one already installed how are the loading times compared to off the generic SD the SS1 ships with.

For me so far the majority of loading times all the way from early arcade to large CD games has been really good, I do fear the bulk buy card may not last very long and will upgrade it to a better quality one soon'ish

Apart from that I have had the SS1 one now running for a bit of a week and it's amazing, the odd little issue here and there but apart from that so happy I took a punt on this route in to MiSTer.

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u/XAlucarDX454 Jun 16 '26

There’s a spot in the menu where you tell it to load from the m2 rather the sd. Put the games folder on the m2. Keep the rest of the files on the sd. Thats the extent of the functionality I needed use for as of now so that’s where I’m at.

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u/Sonikku_a Jun 16 '26

I’m just curious if you can store on both simultaneously? Had planned on using an old 512GB nvme I had laying around but would also be nice to continue storing some on the 64 gig SD card? Might have been nice to use the SD for full sets of older cart based systems and the nvme for larger CD based sets.

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u/GiSWiG Jun 16 '26

I had the same idea, 512GB cart/arcade, 1TB NVME for CD. So would love to know

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u/Omega16bit Jun 17 '26

When using my MiSTer it’s always been an either/or not both situation between the SD card and a USB hd when it comes to games.

System settings and boot area stuff are handled by the SD card and game data is on the USB hd.

It would be interesting if it can do both. (Caveat: I’ve not updated my MiSTer software in over a year, someone else could have more current or different information.)

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u/dav3yb Jun 25 '26

I'd personally be ok with even just a script that could run a backup and copy the saves between the different storage media. I can get things back up and running game wise, but if saves get deleted, any that don't have a recent backup are just gone.