Mostly looking for a sanity check on my plan or best practice improvements and other suggestions.

I would like to get a bootable live usb of some distro that will allow me to make a full block by block image of my primary SSD that currently hosts a windows install. I would like it to be saved directly to a TrueNAS Scale SMB drive on my local network.

Any thoughts, suggestions? I plan to wipe the drive and try out a couple different distros before finalizing my switchover on this machine to Linux full time. I’m a long time Debian user for my homelab from top to bottom but I want to switch my desktop too. I’m open to trying different flavors like NixOS, Arch, maybe some others as a learning experience.

I’m currently running a 7800x3D and 3090 if that matters.