# Guidance on disassembling expansion cards

**URL:** <https://community.frame.work/t/guidance-on-disassembling-expansion-cards/11508>\
**Category:** Creators & Developers\
**Created:** [November 26, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/guidance-on-disassembling-expansion-cards/11508 "2021-11-26T19:11:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![lbkNhubert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19b73/32.png) [@lbkNhubert](https://community.frame.work/u/lbkNhubert)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/guidance-on-disassembling-expansion-cards/11508/3 "2021-11-26T22:04:14Z")

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@ImaxinarDM - the pictures in your post that I linked above (edit, not _about_) were key, thank you for providing them! I had a couple of spare thermal pads and wanted to apply them to the storage cards per nrp’s post here:

> [@1TB Storage Expansion Overheating](http://community.frame.work/t/1tb-storage-expansion-overheating/5900/21):
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> I’ve got the same performance as @DannyT – I’m about to order another 1TB card b/c I’d like it for other options. I’m OK if the one I have throttles at 16GiB because I could just relegate it to doing stuff like backup – but I’d like my drive I use for OSes to be more reliable. Hopefully the new one will be. I can use a Samsung T7, but I like having it inside my device so to speak.

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