I personally would recommend clean install. It's good to occasionally clean up Windows a bit, get fresh and update drivers and applications. I have had issues with cloning drives and failing to boot from the new drive or having wrong sized partitions.
Both cloning or fresh install are good options, each as ups and downs.
I prefer fresh installs myself, I just like having a clean, minimal system. If you want to manually extract your key, I use an application called R/W Everything.
Any modern PC, Windows 8 or newer, will have your key within the BIOS. You do need to boot via UEFI for it to grab it automatically. If you are running 10 and your PC previously had 7 or 8 on it, then you can just do a fresh install and select "I don't have a key" once you connect to the internet, your hardware will re-activate with your digital license.
If you want to clone, there are multiple applications for this. Samsung's and Crucial's SSDs come with software usually. Sometimes with cloning you will need to re-size your partitions afterward in order to access the additional space your new SSD is giving you. Not difficult at all.
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