Dell XPS 8900 ... Can I stuff 10 Hard Drives?

[DaveM88]

So, I finally bit the bullet and bought

DELL XPS 8900 i7-6700 8GB RAM 1TB HDD DVD-RW NVIDIA GT 730 WINDOWS 10
I also bought Crucial 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR4 2133 to make it a total of 24gb ram.
Price paid = $630 (refurb)

I am curious to know what to do with multiple hard drives I have and will buy.

My inventory

1) 180gb Intel 330 Series Solid-State Drive 180 GB SATA 6 Gb/s 2.5-Inch
(will use this to run Windows and pretty much it)

2) 1TB Hard Drive that came with system
(files that do not need to have highest speed)

3) 2TB Hard Drive (my old drive that serves as backup)

4) 512gb SSD Samsung 850 PRO 512GB or Samsung 950 PRO Series - 512GB PCIe NVMe - M.2
(for video, photographs, adobe, all programs, etc)

Question is ... how much space does XPS8900 has for hard drives, ssd drives, etc?

Thank you.

 

[MeepsterNotchy]

Get one or a few 10TB HDDs if you really need that much space.

 

[rgd1101]

try the service manual and spec?
http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/xps-8900-desktop/manuals

 

[DaveM88]

try the service manual and spec?
http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/xps-8900-desktop/manuals

I appreciate the link but have no idea on how to check and where it would answer my question. Can you help me out?

 

[indsup]

By the manual you can only fit one m.2, three 3.5 hard drives and two 5.25 optical drives. Of course you can remove any optical drives and install a drive cage and install two in that for a total of 5 3.5 drives. Outside that you will not have enough space to add any more. If you need that much space look into getting an NAS. That should give you all the storage you would ever need i would think. There are many options on those so the sky's the limit.

 

[rgd1101]

If you want to add the drives you will need to open it anyway, start reading.

 

[DaveM88]

I was just being lazy ... I looked into it and I guess I am good. Easily will fit all I need to fit.

Question now is ... for the SSD drive, do I stick with
Samsung 850 EVO 500GB
or
Samsung 850 PRO 512GB
or
Samsung 950 PRO

Is it worth the extra cost to go pro? I'll be using HD for some image editing, photo viewing, 1080p video (rarely) and launching applications MS office, lightroom, browsers, etc. Nothing crazy.

I've been very satisfied with 180gb Intel 330 Series Solid-State Drive ... how do the Samsungs compare?

thanks guys.

P.S. For $200 can even get the 1tb SanDisk SSD drive?

 

[DaveM88]

bump?

 

[USAFRet]

'bump'? Good grief...give it a minute.

Number of drives:
How many SATA ports on the motherboard?
How many physical mount spaces in the case?
How many SATA ports are negated by using the m.2 port.

Your user manual tells you all this.

 

[DaveM88]

'bump'? Good grief...give it a minute.

Number of drives:
How many SATA ports on the motherboard?
How many physical mount spaces in the case?
How many SATA ports are negated by using the m.2 port.

Your user manual tells you all this.

I already got my info to the original question, I was now curious about the following

question now is ... for the SSD drive, do I stick with
Samsung 850 EVO 500GB
or
Samsung 850 PRO 512GB
or
Samsung 950 PRO

Is it worth the extra cost to go pro? I'll be using HD for some image editing, photo viewing, 1080p video (rarely) and launching applications MS office, lightroom, browsers, etc. Nothing crazy.

I've been very satisfied with 180gb Intel 330 Series Solid-State Drive ... how do the Samsungs compare?

thanks guys.

P.S. For $200 can even get the 1tb SanDisk SSD drive?