The M2 SSD arrives tomorrow and I'd love to just clone the HDD to SSD and then reformat the spinner and keep it for bulk storage. Pretty sure this should be possible, but wanted to see what ...

I just migrated my 1TB HDD laptop to a 500GB SSD by using Macrium Reflect (freeware) and a cheap USB 3.0 external enclosure for the new SSD.

There are few ways to make a laptop faster that are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD).