Can I upgrade the 2TB fusion drive on mid 2017 27 inch iMac

Can I upgrade the 2TB fusion drive on mid 2017 27 inch iMac What kind of SSD does apple uses for its 2TB fusion drive? I read on your website that the 2TB is composed of 128 SSD and 2TB 7200 rpm drive. Can I upgrade the 128 SSD with a 3rd party nmve m.2 ? Is there an adpater for it?
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bert [Entry]

"I have successfully upgraded my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) with a 2TB Samsung 970 EVO NVME SSD. Please see post below for full details.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ima...

Best of luck.

Thanks."

bert [Entry]

"The fusion drive is in the pc world a hybrid drive.

Conventional hard drive platters with a ssd portion of memory on the controller board. You can't simply swap out the Chip and attach a nmve m2...

Your only option is to purchase a bigger hybrid hard drive.."