Upgrade harddrive on retina macbook pro?

hi! i have the retina display macbook pro i bought about a year ago when it came out, and it has only 250 GB harddrive, because its this new SSD drive. now i was wondering if it by now is possible to upgrade the harddrive and get a bigger one?

You don't have a hard drive - you have flash storage on a daughter card of the main logic board.
If you're already out of your warranty period, you may want to search eBay for 512GB or 768GB flash storage cards. The only warrantied flash storage card I know of is from OWC -> http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDAP12R480/ - a 480GB flash storage card.
Good luck,
Clinton

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