Advice on upgrading hard drive from HDD to SSD

[cabmandone]

I have a SATA HDD and I'm wanting to upgrade to SSD. I also have a M.2 slot that can use PCIe NVMe. My system is a Dell Inspiron 17 7773 2 in 1. Dell recommends this; MPN: SNP112P/512G, Dell part AA618641 but it's only 512gb. I currently have a 2tb HDD but I've only used 78.6gb of internal storage since I bought this thing back in 2018.

I'm thinking I'll install a 1tb NVME SSD for extra speed versus a SATA SSD. I don't see needing 2tb and for the cost difference I don't see the benefit. I'm looking for something to speed up load time and hopefully fix my issue where my HDD is running at 100% when I open things like chrome or edge and have multiple pages open.

What say the brain trust?

[GH85Carrera]

The m.2 drive is the fastest option. Faster than the SSD. Either will be faster than a spinning drive.

[herr_oberst]

Do it. You won't regret it.

[cabmandone]

I should be okay with the 1tb vs the 2 I currently have so I think I'll do some shopping. Then I just have to figure out cloning the old drive over to the new.

EDIT:
Oh sh.t.... there are a TON of choices. PNY, Samsung, Sabrent, Western Digital, Crucial, Kingston etc. My head is gonna hurt after this.

Edit 2: I pulled the trigger on a Sabrent 1gb PCIe card. I did some looking at specs and it looks like the M2 slot is good for up to 1gb. Still should be plenty and if it's not, I can put a Crucial SATA 500 gb ssd that I have in the SATA slot and use if for additional storage.

[cabmandone]

Holy smokes! The M.2 PCIe NVME SSD really woke this thing up!

[edgemar]

you can download the disk cloning software free from the SSD manufacturer.