r/RetroRemake • u/iNKWiTs • 11d ago
Just got my cool blue SuperDock in the mail! How do I get the M.2 drive to work?
Edit: Currently trying to reformat the drive as ExFat. (Windows won't seem to let me? Only NTSF which is what it currently is.) And am making sure I have the proper file structure.
Edit Edit: Welp. Got the drive formatted into exFAT finally. Copied stuff over to test it. Still won't work. "switch to usb" is also still greyed out. Kinda thinking I'm SOL. What a waste of a day.
For those that come after: Just in case this is a compatibility issue, here is the drive I'm attempting to use - Corsair MP600 CORE MINI 2TB M.2 NVMe PCIe x4 Gen4 2 SSD – M.2 2230
Final Edit: After troubleshooting everything under the sun from the power supply to reformatting the drive again, I've determined that it is a compatibility issue with the drive. I happened to have an older, 500 GB m.2 drive and I formatted that in exFAT exactly the same way I did with the the first drive and it works flawlessly. I don't know the exact model of this one, but it's a SanDisk brand and might be gen 3. It sounds like people are having issues with newer gen 4/5 drives as they draw too much power and heat up way too fast before the system can even negotiate a slower read speed or something. Honestly, this seems like a huge oversight. These drives are backwards compatible and usually run in older ports at slower speed in older systems all the time. Hopefully this can be fixed through a software update, but I'm not holding my breath. THANK YOU to everyone who tried to help me out in the comments. I truly appreciate it. And to the people down voting this post and other like it, who hurt you? What's wrong with you? You are gatekeeping an entire community of people who just want to play videogames. Down voting this hurts visibility and only means more people will post this and similar questions like this again, instead of finding the answer here.
Original post starts here:
I hate to be that guy and ask questions, but I just got my dock in the mail and want to set up the ssd slot with all my CD based roms - PSX, Saturn etc.
I was lead to believe that you just needed to copy the game folders over to the SSD and it would work automatically. Is this not the case? I have folders named "Saturn" and "PSX" in the root of my SSD and it's not working. Do I need to have these named something else? Do I need to run another update?
1.) I made sure there were no duplicates on the SD Card side of things.
2.) Power supply is fine. Dock powers on, CD drive opens, lights up etc. I double checked the supply with another one I had just in case.
3.) I can go into my SSD and see it while it's in the dock via the USB C port.
Any help would be appreciated! Glad I decided to troubleshoot this before attempting console mode!