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Oooh, successfully cloned my 1 TB SSD to the 4 TB Samsung 990 Evo Plus one. Compared to the WD 580, there's a slight drop in random IOps, but almost double the sequential write speed, and the drop in random IO is very minimal too. Since this mobo has two M.2 slots, it's not as though I could keep the second drive for work that requires the reading of small data chunks.
@Tamasg My motherboard has two SSD slots. Sadly, one of them is covered by some cooling pipes... which I only found out after buying an expensive new SSD and opening it up. I don't even think opening it up beforehand would've helped, because until I was holding the new SSD in my hand I didn't really know what I was feeling for.
@jscholes It can for sure be tricky! Getting the one connected to the CPU was one of the biggest pains of my life. The SSD slot is sandwitched between the GPU and CPU heatsink, so after connecting the bottom into the slot, you had to hold it down with one hand while screwing the driver using the other one. The entire time I feared the end snagging on the pipes and getting bent, thankfully that didn't happen. I was able to get it slightly twisted in to where it stayed afixed eventually and then use the screwdriver, but that itself took 3 times of it falling through to the bottom of the case and then me having to tip it upside down to get it out. Wow just wow. I don't get why they use such tiny ones for M.2, and from what I've experienced, each mobo can come with various sizes, so one M.2 screw may not end up fitting another slot later on.