Windows 10: DELL XPS 8930 Upgrade SSD M.2 and Add SATA SSD

Hi - I wonder if anyone can help please. I have a Dell XPS 8930. It’s about 18 months old. I’m very happy with the PC, especially now the fan noise is under better control. My Dell came with a Toshiba SSD NVMe M.2 256 GB and a HDD. Win 10 Pro (v1909) sits on the Toshiba M.2 SSD and my data files are on the HDD. The M.2 SSD is getting a little low on free space so I’ve bought a higher capacity (500 GB) Samsung M.2 SSD. Having suffered disc failure in the past I also have a Samsung SATA SSD which will fit in one of the spare drive bays. I will clone (not mirror) the M2. SSD to the SATA SSD weekly for extra protection.

My intention is to:

1) Fit the SATA SSD in one of the spare drive bays; 2) Restore an image of the existing Toshiba M.2 SSD to the new SATA SSD;
3) Remove the Toshiba M.2 SSD;
4) Reboot from the new SATA SSD (Q – does this require any change to settings?); 5) Fit the Samsung M.2 SSD and clone from SATA SSD.
6) Reboot, enter BIOS and change boot order to Samsung M.2 SSD. This all seems a bit too straightforward and I’m sure there are other things I need to do to make sure everything works o.k. and in particular the PC boots correctly at stages 4 and 6. For example, the SATA option in my BIOS is set to RAID, and I did read that I might have to change that to AHCI but at what stage.


I use Macrium Reflect Home Edition for image files and cloning, and have created a rescue disc.
Any thoughts\suggestions gratefully received. Thank you.

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how do i partition a ssd without messing it up ? Im a noob when it comes to this sort of thing .

 

M.2 SSD Partitioning

My OS is installed on an 128GB SATA SSD,

All other applications, when ever possible I used to install on another 60 SATA SSD.

I am very happy with the performance. It is pretty fast, better than if it were on the same disk. I have tested the difference.

Now I have a new ASUS ROG Strix B450-F Gaming Motherboard with Two M.2 slots.

I am going to buy a 512 GB M.2 SSD.

As I have under stood the SSD consists of 4 Nos of NAND Chis.

Therefore on each NAND chip, I presume will have capacity of 64 GBs.

My question is are they really independent ?

Can they behave as independent Hard disks?

If yes,

Can I partition my new M.2 SSD into an 198GB and 64GB partitions -that means 3 NAND chips and one NAND Chip?

and enjoy the same or better speed than before that I had with the SATA SSD?

Dr Abdul Rasheed

 

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