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We try to tell people how quickly a C Drive can fill up despite best intentions...lol.    It is said we all double our drive space needs roughly every two years.   Therefore, if you don’t want to be stuck dealing with this again in 2021...probably you will want a 1 TB size M.2 NVME SSD.

1) Heat is always a concern inside a PC case, but M.2 NVME SSD drives are the size of a pocket comb and I wouldn’t consider the heat they generate to be significant enough to cause any real concern.   Proper fan air circulation inside the case should disperse any heat just fine.    Your mobo has two M.2 slots parked between the PCIE slots, so just use the M.2 port furthest below / away from the GPU.

2) Samsung does make the better and most popular M.2 NVME SSD drives these days.    What you want to do is “Clone” your C drive and Op System onto the new larger M.2 NVME Drive.    Lots of Drive cloning software products out there for this purpose.     I have used and like Paragon Hard Disc Manager products for Drive cloning, but Acronis and AVG also make similar software utilities for Drive Cloning.    You can search on NewEgg or amazon to find lots of choices.   If you can follow software directions, you can clone a C drive onto a new one.

You had best research the cloning software products websites to find the one you are most confidant using for this task of migrating the boot OS from your SSD to the M.2 NVME SSD     Most have support where you could ask questions or user forums where you could confirm exactly how the process would work in your case before buying the software. I placed some product links below.

https://www.paragon-software.com/home/

https://www.acronis.com/en-us/lp/personal/sem?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9dyRoqLv5AIVUxx9Ch2c-QJwEAAYASABEgL-fPD_BwE

https://www.macrium.com/products/home



Sorry...1 port...You are correct...I must have looked at a different deluxe version of the mobo that had a second port below, but one M.2 slot is all that you will need.