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Migrating from SATA SSD to PCIe NVMe

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I have a thinkpad T480 with a 2TB SATA SSD.  The T480 will do 2 channels of NVMe as well.  You just need to get a caddy for it that goes in the 2.5" space and use different cabling.  The caddy's come with the cable and I've got one.  I've also got a 2 TB NVMe.  Both the current SATA and NVMe I have are Samsung.

I clone my current SATA drive to an external SATA Drive via a USB C/SATA cable weekly so that I have a quick way to be operational without much data loss if my internal drive gets messed up.  This happens 2-3 times / year as a result of doing quite a bit of software installs/removals, etc.

You can't directly do this with just a cable, but I've got 2 brands of external NVMe enclosures and have been trying to use Acronis to clone from the internal to the external drive for several days now without any success.

I think this means you can't clone cross the drive types, but does anyone know of a way that I can with some # of steps and using Acronis get a working copy of my current disk but on the new NVMe in the laptop?  Assume that the caddy and all that is just fine.

Do I have to use a process other than cloning to do this upgrade?

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In my experience it is best to create backup of the SATA SSD and then restore to M,2 NVMe drive. The same goes when replacing an M.2 NVMe drive with a new one as I did about 6 months ago. It goes without saying that this is best done using recovery media.

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