I’ll walk through the steps I’ve taken on my personal Microsoft Surface Laptop 7th Edition to increase its storage from 512GB to 2TB using an M.2 2230 GEN 4 SSD. If you’re looking to do something like this and are a skilled technician, this should save you some time. The SSD upgrade along with the internal NPU will make this a formidable 4K video capture and editing machine with lots of file capacity, which is great as a creator or video editor.

This process works on Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Laptop 7th Edition. The approach is different on Surface Laptop 3, 4, and 5 to disassemble the device, but locating the recovery image and the USB preparation is the same. Surface Pro 7+ and newer devices have an SSD cover panel behind the kickstand and share the same process for locating recovery images and preparing the USB.

Links:
Recovery image: https://support.microsoft.com/surface-recovery-image
How to boot Surface devices to USB: https://support.microsoft.com/surface/boot-surface-from-a-usb-device-fe7a7323-8d1d-823d-be17-9aec89c4f9f5
Surface warranty information: https://aka.ms/surface-warranty
Surface Laptop 7th Edition: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-laptop-7th-edition
SSD I used (Silicon Power UD90): https://amzn.to/3Lu0mfi
(I didn’t want to add the link to the SSD until I had strenuously tested it for a few weeks. No issues so far as of August 31, 2024. Retailer affiliate only; I have no affiliation with Silicon Power.)

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