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4. I've got one of those sitting here unused

It was my C: drive but I got tired of fighting with Windows to keep stuff off it - and Windows kept filling it to the brim. So I upgraded my C: drive to a 1 terabyte drive with a SSD cache. I see no difference in speed and Windows is happy.

I used EasUS (probably at your suggestion) and it made moving the OS incredibly easy. Thanks!

I need to get an external enclosure for the SSD drive to use it to move data. I have a 128GB thumb drive but in my last visit to my Mom's I nearly filled it with scans of old documents and pictures. While I try to bring home as much of that kind of stuff to scan as possible (my computer is at least twice as fast as the one I have use of there), some of the documents I am not allowed to remove from Mom's house.

Got a question - do you have any experience with external docking systems for drives? I'm up to about 6-8 terabytes of data I need to back up and I don't want to send it to "the cloud." My theory is to buy a dock for 2-4 SATA drives and swap out the drives on a regular basis, storing the ones I am not actively using off site. If I change the external drives out weekly and do incremental backups I won't lose much data if something goes south. I've looked at docking systems on NewEgg.com but I get burned out reading the specs and the reviews.