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You need to have a fairly recent motherboard on your computer to house an M2 Card. Fitting is fairly straight forward
although the small anchor screw can be fiddly depending on access to the motherboard.

M.2 slots on older motherboards only support NGFF SSDs while the latest motherboards come with M.2 slots that can
work with NVMe SSDs. NVMe PCIe SSDs have a read and write speeds of up to 3500 and 3000 MB/s on average which
is a lot faster than other types of SDDs.

My desktop PC came fitted with an NVMe 125Gb card which was my C drive – hence the operating system was installed
on it. This was absolutely fine but, as Windows 10 evolved, it took up more and more space. I moved all my documents,
downloads and all programs that would allow to another drive. Programs like Adobe Photoshop insist on being on the C
drive and are memory hungry.

This meant an upgrade. I opted for the Samsung 960 EVO 500Gb which at the time was around £100 and would give me
all the required memory I needed on my C drive. This model was also the fastest at the time.

The procedure is reasonably straight forward. You will need an external enclosure and some proprietary cloning software
to do the job. In my case, I used Acronis- which we have previewed in the past.