I have bought two M.2 NVMe drive enclosures to USB 3.2, an NVMe drive dock. Then I would restore the latest System image to that now installed new 1TB drive. I would use it to clone to the new drive, then I install the new drive, and then retire the smaller original drive until it is needed again. It can be swapped out immediately for a failed drive, and used until the larger drive is replaced. So by saving the original drives I have a backup of my built system that is out of date, but has all the drivers and system and programs. See despite saying we can download Windows free and do an ISO then load it up, each computer has drivers for that computer hardware mix and those can be hard to find.

I keep the original built with all my software drive and also do System images and file backups. I cloned the new 1TB drive from the original before removing it from the system using an M.2 external NVMe drive dock ~ $39 at Amazon. Buying the Surface with 1TB is about $400 more and I got the drive for $200 new from and eBay vendor and installed it a couple of months ago. I have the original 128GB Surface Pro 7+ drive since I upgraded to a 1TB Microsoft OEM M.2 NVMe. To see if I like the speed and other factors to decide if it is a keeper. I usually build my new systems with all my paid for and free software, files, music, pics and docs.

That third backup is keeping the original drive. But I tend to buy 128 or 256GB main SSD drives today and if I like the system I upgrade where I can select the SSD I want both in capacity and speed with heat control a factor in All in One and Surface Tablets with upgradable SSD. I pretty much always get a system with the CPU and Mobo specs I want, but I need a 1 TB main drive and the secondary internal storage drive 1TB as well. Rich that is almost as good as it gets for me.

Clone disk with macrium reflect free