I assume the M.2 drive you have now is NVME? You can go to either a 1 TB M.2 SATA SSD or a 1 TB NVME/PCIe SSD. NVME will give you the much faster performance. Either you have to make a backup of your current drive then restore to the new drive, or you can clean install Windows. Or you can download the factory restore image from Dell and set the drive up as it came from the factory.
As far as model is concerned, Samsung, Crucial, Adata, Corsair, Kingston all make quality NVME and SATA M.2 SSD drives.
FYI if memory serves the Samsung 970 Evo has been found NOT to work in this system, even though the 960 Evo works fine. Otherwise, the information above should get you going. Buy a compatible SSD and then either perform a clean install of Windows and start over, or else use something like Macrium Reflect to capture an image of your system to an external hard drive, then replace the SSD, then boot your system from the Reflect Rescue Media so you can restore that image to your new SSD. When you do that, make sure you “stage” the restore so that your OS partition gets upsized to use the additional space, since depending on your partition layout you might not be able to do that afterward.
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I assume the M.2 drive you have now is NVME? You can go to either a 1 TB M.2 SATA SSD or a 1 TB NVME/PCIe SSD. NVME will give you the much faster performance. Either you have to make a backup of your current drive then restore to the new drive, or you can clean install Windows. Or you can download the factory restore image from Dell and set the drive up as it came from the factory.
As far as model is concerned, Samsung, Crucial, Adata, Corsair, Kingston all make quality NVME and SATA M.2 SSD drives.
Backup software
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
Windows media tool creation
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10
Dell recovery image
https://www.dell.com/support/home/ca/en/cabsdt1/drivers/osiso/recoverytool/WT64A
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January 6th, 2019 08:00
FYI if memory serves the Samsung 970 Evo has been found NOT to work in this system, even though the 960 Evo works fine. Otherwise, the information above should get you going. Buy a compatible SSD and then either perform a clean install of Windows and start over, or else use something like Macrium Reflect to capture an image of your system to an external hard drive, then replace the SSD, then boot your system from the Reflect Rescue Media so you can restore that image to your new SSD. When you do that, make sure you “stage” the restore so that your OS partition gets upsized to use the additional space, since depending on your partition layout you might not be able to do that afterward.