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Re:StarBook 14-inch by uuyi on Friday April 15, 2022 @04:09AM (#31037686)
Yes you can. You need to use Configurator to do it. It has been confirmed by iFixit. It’s the same as the Mac Pro was: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210626 . You can’t just swap a disk. You have to actually re-pair it with the crypto and then reprovision it and recovery etc.

Again Linus doesn’t know what he’s doing. Another influencer confirming my point.

This is not a PC. That’s where the assumption goes wrong.

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Re:StarBook 14-inch by ChuckNorris89 on Friday April 15, 2022 @04:13AM (#31037715)
You're making a confusion between replacing and upgrading.

He showed you CAN replace the SSD modules but only with identic size ones, but you CAN'T upgrade to bigger ones as that triggers the firmware lock.

Watch the video he posted he tried what you mentioned.

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Re:StarBook 14-inch by argsnd on Friday April 15, 2022 @06:12AM (#31038437)
Literally nobody on YouTube, certainly not Linus, has attempted to upgrade the storage modules with a supported configuration that the machine is shipped from the factory with.

There isn't a single other SSD controller on the market that knows how to work with arbitrary quantities of NAND flash chips because it's an unnecessary engineering challenge, I don't know why anybody thinks it's remotely reasonable to expect Apple's to be different.

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Re:StarBook 14-inch by uuyi on Friday April 15, 2022 @04:32AM (#31037814)
Yet.

Also there’s some holes in the back you can upgrade your storage with…

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