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Upgrade your Surface Laptop 3 SSD to 1TB using the Tuff Nano

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So, I read a few posts on reddit ( here  and  here  and  here ), found a few  pictures  and convinced myself this was worth a try, because I sure wasn't going to pay ~£2000 just to get the  1TB model  of the Surface Laptop 3.  That's far too pricey, especially after finding out I could do it for just ~£220 - it was a no brainer. For  £1,389.00 I  bought myself the:  Microsoft Surface Laptop 3, Intel Core i7 Processor, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 13.5" PixelSense Display, Platinum from John Lewis .  I would have loved the 32GB RAM model, but this was only available with the 1TB SSD and started at  £2,499.00  - and I wasn't willing to fork out that sort of cash.   The Research My research involved finding out what SSD module was being using in the SL3.  I knew it was a NVMe module, but soon found out there were different types.  The technical docs about the SL3 describe the SSD as an M.2 2230 SSD, so my mission was to quickly jump on eBay or Amazon and get myself the largest I