M.2 upgrade

[GamerR]

Looking for clarification, I have a dorado 8704 motherboard and am looking to increase my storage space. Currently have a ST1000DM014-2FR10D SSD which im looking to upgrade to a BX500 2.5" 2Tb SATA SSD along with an Intel Optane H10 with SSD 512GB which im looking to upgrade to a 2tb NVMe 2280 SSD M.2. I should be able to clone both current drives with the new and swap over for hopefully a flawless startup, correct? I have cloned both and when cloning the current m.2 to the new i also cloned OS. Are there any steps im missing before i made the physical swap?

New to swapping parts so any input is appreciated!

[Bill_To]

Greetings @GamerR 

I may be out in left field but when I see Optane I see a red flag. Optane is usually installed on a 16 GB SSD or 32 GB SSD so your 512 GB Optane SSD may not be using Optane storage technology.

You can clone both drives if the OS is on the 512 GB Optane SSD. You could also only clone the OS drive. Then copy all files and data from the old HDD to the new drive. You'll have to use Disk Management to set up the new drive so Windows can use it.

Let me see if I am following what's happening:

You have an Intel Optane 512 GB H10 OS drive. You also have a ST1000DM014-2FR10D 7200 RPM platter HDD. Well, an Optane setup would place the operating system on the slow platter HDD.

Is your PC doing the Optane cache drive thing on the Intel H10 drive using Intel RST? You would have to open the IRST App to see what's happening.

If yes, this makes upgrading this drive and going back to a standard drive setup a can of worms.

I can't assist without clarification.

I have never purchased a PC using the Intel Optane cache drive setup. I don't see many Optane setups these days. 

It's a PITA to migrate a typical Optane OS setup to different drives when the existing OS is on the slow platter HDD drive. But Optane uses the Optane SSD for fast cache: boot and most used data access for better responsiveness.

You may have to back up data and do a clean Windows install if you have Intel Optane happening. The HP Cloud Recovery option would redo the Optane setup (or fail) on the new drives if your PC shipped from the factory using Intel Optane. So you can't do a HP Cloud recovery.

Cloning an existing Optane drive setup to a new non-Optane setup would carry over the Intel Optane functionality possibly causing an unbootable system. Optane seems to only work using Intel Optane SSDs.

I can't verify if you have a can of worms until you verify Intel Optane is active.

Regards