You can install a 2280 M.2 SSD in your system. As for an enclosure, this page has a large number and some are compatible with 2230. I would suggest looking at a site such as Crucial for the SSD as they are quite possibly equal in performance and better in price such as here. It may be easier to put the 2280 in an enclosure and then clone the old drive to it using a program Such as Macrium Reflect Free available here. If you have an HDD in the system you could also save an image of the old drive to the HDD then remove the old drive, install the new drive, then restore the image to the new drive. That can also be done with Macrium and be sure to create a rescue media from Macrium. The directions for that are on their web site and many YouTube videos.

JOcean - thank you.  I was planning to:

1.  get an enclosure for the new SSD and link it to PC via USB

2.  Clone the current bootable SSD to the new one

3.  Swap the two SSDs over and reboot.

Would that work?

I spoke too soon - having got the enclosure and the SSD but the machine does not 'see' the SSD.  It does the 'found something new' ping-ping-ping when I plug the loaded enclosure in, which, I think, confirms that it has noticed that something has been added.  But nothing shows up in File Manager or Macrium.

The enclosure was supplied with a Type-C to Type-C cable, which is not much use whan trying to connect to a PC with USB sockets.  I do have a 'gender bender' which converts from Type-C to standard USB (Type A?), but I wonder of it is only for power?

Any thoughts, or is it likely that the SSD is faulty?

Update for those that come after. 

Having played wirh Macrium and Acronis True Image (my backup software that also has a Clone facility) I established that although the computer could see the external SSD drive, it could not list it as it was not formatted.  

Playing with Macrium and Acronis demonstrated to me that I had to define which drive I wanted to clone and then click Next and at that stage it showed all my established drives AND the new unformatted one, so I could select it.

So I could go ahead, and 1.5 hours later I had a new bigger boot drive that works

The only issue I had was with BitLocker, and my data drive was locked.  I got my key and all was well

Thank you all for your help

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@jo5030 wrote:

I spoke too soon - having got the enclosure and the SSD but the machine does not 'see' the SSD.  It does the 'found something new' ping-ping-ping when I plug the loaded enclosure in, which, I think, confirms that it has noticed that something has been added.  But nothing shows up in File Manager or Macrium.

The enclosure was supplied with a Type-C to Type-C cable, which is not much use whan trying to connect to a PC with USB sockets.  I do have a 'gender bender' which converts from Type-C to standard USB (Type A?), but I wonder of it is only for power?

Any thoughts, or is it likely that the SSD is faulty?

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I am sorry. I hadn't noticed that the Sabrent is USB-C.  Return it to Amazon and buy something similar that has the USB-A cable.

https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-NVMe-Enclosure-Gbps-Support/dp/B08G14NBCS

The USB-C to USB-A adapter may be just for power. The D+/D- lines are usually not connected when that is the case and are needed for this.

nyc10036.  No problems - you confirmed what I was trying to do was correct.  In fact the 'gender changer' worked, and it was my misunderstanding of the way that Macrium and Acronis True Image works.  When I opened the applications I assumed that I would see the USB drive as one of the available drives, and as I didn't see it I assumed that it was not working.  Using Device Manager I established that the PC was actually seeing the drive, although it did not show it to me.

So I want ahead with the Cloning process and selected the Source drive.  The system then showed me all my other drives as potential Targets INCLUDING the new and unused USB drive.  I continued and succeeded.  This is written using my new and bigger Boot drive.

I think that it was to do with the fact that the YouTube videos were using a previously formatted drive (which was visible at all steps) rather than a brand new one.  I live and learn.

Thank you all very much for your help 

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@jo5030 wrote:

nyc10036.  No problems - you confirmed what I was trying to do was correct.  In fact the 'gender changer' worked, and it was my misunderstanding of the way that Macrium and Acronis True Image works.  When I opened the applications I assumed that I would see the USB drive as one of the available drives, and as I didn't see it I assumed that it was not working.  Using Device Manager I established that the PC was actually seeing the drive, although it did not show it to me.

So I want ahead with the Cloning process and selected the Source drive.  The system then showed me all my other drives as potential Targets INCLUDING the new and unused USB drive.  I continued and succeeded.  This is written using my new and bigger Boot drive.

I think that it was to do with the fact that the YouTube videos were using a previously formatted drive (which was visible at all steps) rather than a brand new one.  I live and learn.

Thank you all very much for your help 

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I love happy endings. Thank you for posting back and letting us know the result.

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