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Cloning to M.2 NVMe via PCIe/M.2 expansion card. Hints?
I'm preparing to upsize my primary SATA SSD drive from 250GB to 500GB or 1TB. As they're priced about the same and my system is getting a few years on it figured I might, instead of continuing with SATA SSD, get a PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe drive which I can use in the next build (1 or 2 years from now).
My question is -- As my MB has no M.2 slots I'd be needing to use an expansion card in the available PCIe 3.0 x16 slot. I'd be doing the usual in-comp clone using Macrium or equivalent software. With just those two drives installed after the clone I'd shut down/uninstall the old primary/restart. I know I might have to enter UEFI to enable booting from that PCI slot. Might there be anything else I should be concerned about or looking for? Already have cloned backups on external drives and for ease I'll be sticking with MBR instead of performing a conversion.
I do have a clone taken immediately after the clean install which was done about four or five (maybe more ;-)) years ago. It doesn't have any of the changes since then but I'm almost ready to make that sacrifice just to get a renewed OS. Unfortunately I can't do a clean install off OEM disk as I'm running on a 10 upgrade which, if I understand correctly, is no longer an option.