I basically did the same thing. Did you have other stuff on the hdd? you cloned the OS ONLY from the HDD?  If so i didn't know you can pick and choose what you want to clone. Or i may have read it wrong? 

macrium allows you to pick the partitions to be cloned.

I cloned all the partitions on the hdd to the ssd.

RAM upgrade:

My XPS came with 8 GB RAM only (from Micron) CL 19, single rank.

I got the part number of the installed RAM using CPU-Z and purchased an identical one for 80 €.

Installed the new RAM in the white RAM bay. 

Bios immediately identified a total 16 GB with 2666 MHz.

CPU-Z shows identical specs for both RAM sticks.

Now my XPS is geared with 16 GB RAM, 500 GB 970 Evo.

Mission accomplished :).

I expect my unit next week.  It comes with a 256gb SSD and a 1tb hard drive.  Tech tells me that the system boots off the ssd module.[m.2]  I plan to clone the SSD, replace it with the Samsung evo 970. [M.2] My only concern is what I am reading about raid.  It seems that these systems come with raid enabled.  Is this the case?  Also, I am not sure if optane memory is enabled which is another issue.  Any advice on raid switching to  ahci.  Thanks

Very easy to switch from RAID to ACHI (thanks to an amazing post here that I can't find :))

The defaults settings in bios is RAID

From windows, use the "msconfig" command to open the system configuration utility.

Under "boot", select "safe mode" and minimal.

Restart the computer and enter bios and change RAID to ACHI

System will restart in safe mode (now in the ACHI mode)

use the msconfig command again and reset the booting to normal again.

Now Win 10 is running normally under AHCI and you can clone that to the 970 Evo and use its features to the max (Samsung drivers work only under AHCI).

This is exactly what I did and worked perfectly.

Good luck :)

Thank you for your message. These models have RIAD enabled by default. Intel memory is an option available.

You can change from RAID to AHCI without reinstalling the OS.

Thanks.  I got the pc on Saturday and everything worked fine following your steps.  Another question.  I see I  have two addional drive bays.  I took a quick look and didn't see any free power connectors.  I am assuming there must be if they provide the expansion space.  Thanks again.

The power connectors are all there but not the data cables, you will need to buy them.

I am receiving my xps 8930 tomorrow,  I choose the Intel 7 8086 cpu, 32gb ram, 1TB ssd ( I am told it is an Intel NVME 7600p ssd)  and a 2tb HDD.  Windows 10 pro I have a Samsung 970 EVO NVME and a PCIE adapter card to install the ssd in a x4 Pcie slot.   What is this talk about raid being set from the factory?  I am using this as a Workstation for ProTools 12  My current plan is to use the 1TB Intel ssd for my OS and programs.   I plan to use the Samsung and the PCIE adapter for my audio drive and the 2TB sata drive as a storage drive and system backups. 

Am I going to have to change from a Raid configuration.. the system will arrive tomorrow and before I start anyting I want to find out for sure what I will need to do..

PS  I was really surprised to hear that the 1TB ssd drive will be an Intel 7600p... . If I had to do it over, I may not have ordered the SSD from Dell, not much information on the Intel ssd available. 

Thanks in advance for any suggestions. 

Hi

See the reply from Maimos above.  I had to make the switch away from RAID to take advantage of the Samsung EVO drive.  With your current configuration you may not have to do that.  Maybe some others can shed some light on this.