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PC Gamer
Nick Evanson

Milling the SSD back into sand is one way of upgrading your iPhone 17's storage and it makes a laptop upgrade look like a four-piece jigsaw puzzle by comparison

With most gaming laptops, adding more storage for your games is as easy as popping off the rear panel and just jamming a new M.2 SSD into a spare slot. When it comes to phones, though, it's a tad more difficult, especially if the device in question is an iPhone 17 Pro Max. And when I say tad, I actually mean a hugely complicated feat of highly-skilled engineering, as one modder amply demonstrates.

Apple's latest iPhone 17 Pro Max, the most expensive one in the released launched lineup, is available with four storage options: 256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB. There's a $200 price tag difference between the first three, and because of the size of the capacity jump, a $400 gap between the 1 and 2 TB models.

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