SATA to NVMe

I've got a Win10 system that was built fresh on a SATA SSD. If I want to switch the OS drive to an NVMe M.2 drive, can I just clone the SATA OS drive to the new drive and everything should be ok and boot to the new NVMe drive? Nothing in the OS needs adjusting afterwards right? SSD trim stuff or anything about the OS that needs to be aware? I thought not since the system was already built with an SSD drive.

That is what I did when I switched to NVME and haven't had any problems. I checked the alignment just to make sure it remained correct and it did.

Windows 10 has an NVMe driver built in. Should be good to go.

No issues at all. When I made the switch that's exactly what I did, cloned my SATA drive to the NVMe drive on Windows 10.

May want to run Crystaldiskmark or a similar bench to make sure speeds are as expected once this is done.

Nismo said:

I've got a Win10 system that was built fresh on a SATA SSD. If I want to switch the OS drive to an NVMe M.2 drive...

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Why? Do you have some application you believe will actually benefit from a NVMe SSD? Because virtually all typical applications/games/etc. won't.

biggles said:

May want to run Crystaldiskmark or a similar bench to make sure speeds are as expected once this is done.

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And then run some non-synthetic benchmarks and realize that you probably won't see any real-world gain.

I used the clone method as well, via Macrium Reflect. From there (if your sizes are different), you can use the Windows Disk Management tool to extend the partition to the correct size.
In terms of performance difference, I doubt you'll see much. I haven't, and that includes dealing with video and large design files. It's a hair quicker, but not by much.
In fact, the boot times are a hair slower (probably a Mobo thing), too.
For 99.9% of users, just get a cheap but high quality SSD and you're good to go.