What would be the best replacement for WD SN730 NVME Gen3 drive be?

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Hi, I have a Dell G5 15 5500 Laptop that has a 1TB WD SN730 NVME Gen3 drive.
The life has start going below 40%, and I am thinking I should consider its replacement and clone my drive sooner rather than later.
When I look around on searches, I must admit, the Samsung 970 Evo keeps coming up as being a good drive? There is a plus version that says it's faster, I assume that would also work in my laptop?
Would that probably be the recommended drive?
Does that drive have a better life compared to my WD? It's hard to tell, my WD on Amazon shows as 1.75 million hours life, but the Samsung shows as 1.200TBW, so it's kinda hard to interpret them both?

The other thing I'm not too sure on is why the big difference in price between my WD and the Samsung, my WD is currently around £125 for the 1TB and the Samsung is £56 is the WD actually a better drive?

Or is there another drive that I would be better considering?

There is then having to clone the drive, do i literally just need to buy an M.2 Enclosure and pop the new drive in and run which ever software I use within Windows11? Then swap the drives after?

Thanks for any help.

James
 
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