Maybe 5 years ago, I bought a 750GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD drive for my Alienware 17" laptop. It's still going strong (I don't use it as much as I used to). 3 years ago, I bought 2 x 500GB Samsung 750 EVO SSD drives for use in my gaming laptop. 2 days ago, I bought 2 x 1TB Samsung 860 EVO SSDs.
Why so big? Why not? Especially since they're super-cheap now. The 1TB drives were $139 each. The 500GB drives were around $170 each. The 750GB was around $400.
I now need to determine how to use them. I can sacrifice my two 500GB drives and put them into RAID0 for craps and giggles. Or, I can put the two 1TB drives into RAID0 or RAID1...again, for fun. I now have more SSD drives than I do mechanical drives. I know many people buy small SSDs and put their OS on those drives. Some put the OS and a game or three on the drive. They would also have several mechanical drives for storage of files, images, and things like that.
I've no idea how I'll use them, as I mainly bought them because they were on sale, but I'll find a way! :)
UPDATE - 12/2/2018:
I decided to only use one of the SSDs. I will probably put the other in another system or wait for a bit to use it. For now, it's sitting bare but installed. I could use it as a storage drive. We'll see.
I reisntalled Windows 7 instead of cloning a different and older (and degraded) install. I spend the Saturday installing Win7 and all of the required drivers and such, then attempted to install Win10 (I've an upgrade license). The install hung at 63% and stayed there for 4 hours until I intervened and rebooted the system. It did not like that but I had no choice. I waited overnight for the rescue portion of the install disk to fix the errors. I'll continue with Win7 and clone it, so that when I attempt to upgrade to Win10 and the process breaks, I'll have a fresh copy of Win7.
