Need little help with upgrade to SSD

This topic may have been beaten to death so kindly pardon me for asking again .

My laptop model is NP530U4C-S01IN which has 1 TB with iSSD.

I am thinking of upgrading to Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB SSD.

It came with Windows 7 and I've upgraded with Windows 10. By upgrade, I did clean install and no Samsung utils etc.

Question:
- Do I need to copy the recovery partition to SSD? if So can you give me some steps on how to do that?
- I can reinstall the OS so I don't need to clone. But if I reinstall again, will my Windows 10 license work?
- At last: Is this drive better than Samsung 750 EVO? My requirements are just browsing, vidoes & some games.

Main reason to upgrade to SSD is that the boot times have increased drastically in last few days even with a fresh Windows 10 installations.
I was reading another post now and wondering if this could be because of wear and tear if iSSD. Hmm/

 

The 850 is quite a bit better than the 750. You might not notice the difference though. If you own a 750 and you are sure that you won't need any more space then you can use the 750.

You should be able to hook up the SSD to a USB 3.0 port with an adaptor or enclosure and use Macrium Reflect to copy over all of the partitions.

After you do that, I might recommend you disable the iSSD. Some people seem to be having problems with them recently. The thing is, if it fails completely, it's not replaceable and it can affect the computer.

On my computer which has tiny and vulnerable 8GB iSSD, I have erased and disabled the iSSD in Disk Management.

 

Thank you @namaiki for your answer. This will be my first SSD so I will go with 850 EVO then.

Regarding the copy of recovery partition, you mean to say I could use Macrium reflect to clone the partition?

How do I disable iSSD ? via device manager?

 

Yeah, you can use Macrium Reflect to clone the partitions/drive. I don't think you need to copy over the Samsung recovery partition. If you were going to use that I think it would reinstall Windows 7? Windows 10 has a few small repair partitions though.
If you reinstall Windows 10 I'm not sure how the license works. Is it attached to your Windows Live/Hotmail account?

For the iSSD I deleted all partitions/data off of it and disabled it in Disk Management so nothing can access it and add any more writes to it, but disabling it in Device Manager would have the same effect I think.

 

Thank you @namaiki. Still confused between 250 GB and 500 GB mainly due to the cost. I hope to buy the SSD this weekend and start the migration.

 

How much space are you using at the moment? Personally, I have a 960GB SSD but I do love my computer.

 

Minimum 500GB. You will most likely never take with you a small ssd over to your next computer. Bigger chance if you buy it big enough. And don't forget you should OP your ssd. It will steal 10-30% of total storage space.