I have a newish Dell Precision 7530 laptop.  I immediately replaced the crappy Dell shipped drive with a Samsung 970 EVO 2 TB SSD.  (How I wish that Dell would let you order branded SSDs, like you can with graphics cards...)

I did subsequent configuration to this laptop, starting with some BIOS tweaking (e.g. Fastboot changed from Minimal to Thorough), then full disk encryption using BitLocker (e.g. hardware encryption disabled, Secure Boot enabled), etc.

I recently decided to install Samsung Magician, since that is the manufacturer's tool for monitoring this SSD, updating its firmware, etc.  Magician installed, but failed to recognize my SSD!

Web searching found that:
    1) you likely need to change the Dell BIOS SATA Operation from its default of RAID On to AHCI
    2) you likely need to install the Samsung NVM Express Driver
For example, see the response by uservvjy8cNyuq on 09-24-2018 12:24 PM here.

So, I first tried changing my Dell BIOS SATA Operation from its default of RAID On to AHCI.  That caused my laptop to become unbootable!  Web searching found this Dell Community link.

That lead me to all kinds of interesting discussions on this website.  I am now aware that:
    The FAQ has a lot of detail
    Dell usually has the BIOS SATA Operation default setting of RAID On instead of AHCI
    Dell has that default for maximum compatibility (unless you are running Linux)
    You can change from RAID On to AHCI even after Windows has been installed, its just a little tricky

I am fully comfortable doing the steps in the last link to modify my BIOS to be AHCI.

That said, I want your advice if there are any dangers in doing this BIOS change.

For example, would this BIOS change to AHCI cause any problems with my existing BitLocker confirguation (hardware encryption disabled, Secure Boot enabled)?

Another example, could a Window 10 update fail?  (For example, this posting claims "...there were issues with the 970 and windows 1809 Oct 18  upgrade that Samsung had fixed with a firmware update")

Similarly, could a BIOS update be problematic?