I've been ignoring notifications that my SSD is failing for some time.  I ran Crystal Disk Info just now and it reports "good" (74%) for the H10 HBRPEKNX0202A NVMe INTEL 512GB : 512.1 GB, and "good" (87%) for the H10 HBRPEKNX0202AO NVMe INTEL 32GB : 29.3 GB.

Today, I receive a notification that the Optane Memory is degrading and I need to disable it to avoid memory loss.  The Intel Optane Memory and Storage Management gets stuck when I select "Optane..." so I can't disable it from that application.  I had a look in the BIOS and there doesn't appear to be any option to disable Optane there, either.

A couple questions:  First, what's the secret to disabling Optane? 

Second, I'm about ready to take the plunge and replace the SSD with a SSD that doesn't include Optane, perhaps a crucial 1 TB SSD or something similar.  My plan to do that would be to clone the existing SSD with Optane onto the new SSD without Optane, then install it into the laptop and be finished.  After doing some reading this morning, I'm concerned that that approach won't work unless I disable Optane first and maybe install a fresh Windows 11.

I'm looking for any advice on how to proceed to disable Optane and replace the SSD with something that doesn't include Optane.

Thanks in advance.