Migrating from SATA SSD to PCIe NVMe
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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