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Obtaining a custom storage module seems to involving reverse engineering the PCB, printing it and sourcing the NAND modules, and then BGA soldering that all together: https://youtu.be/HDFCurB3-0Q

Not a user-friendly process, I think.


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Cthulhu_11/08/2024

No, but it is possible and so if it does break, you can repair / replace it. Whether that's affordable is another matter of course, but that's the flaw in the "right to repair" laws popping up now, as unless I'm mistaken it does not mandate reasonably priced replacement parts.

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alsetmusic11/08/2024

As I understand it, you also have to trick the OS into recognizing it in software. I don't know what's involved, but just getting the new NAND modules soldered isn't the whole of the job.