Can one upgrade Flash Storage

I want to buy the new 15" MacBook Pro with 512Gbt of flash storage, but might want to increase the capacity in a year or so to 1T or more when they come out with that size of flash memory.
Is it fixed forever once you buy the machine, or is possible to change out the flash storage to a higher capacity in the future.  Grateful for any input.

Is it a risk? Yes - OWC is the only manufacturer of flash storage cards for the Retina at this moment, and there's no guarantee that there will be bigger cards coming down the pipeline. That said, I have a 512GB SSD in my late 2011 15" and find that it's plenty of space as I have Thunderbolt and FW800 drives that I use for working projects, backups, etc. I'm gradually migrating all of my FW800 drives to TB drives.
So I don't keep 'everything' on my 512GB SSD... and I doubt that you'll need much more than that to start with. Apple's charging a ridiculous price to go from the 512GB to the 768GB storage right now and I don't thing that it's really worth it.
It might be a year - it might be two - before OWC or another company makes a larger flash storage card. But I'm sure that they'll come out at some time...
Good luck,
Clinton

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