Is 4TB overkill?

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My build uses the WD Green as its boot drive which I found out was not a good idea. So I have a WD Black on the way which I plan on using Acronis to copy the Green to the Black to make it my primary boot drive.

Both are 2TB, making a total of 4. My build was designed to only have 2TB, so, apart from pushing up cost is 4TB overkill?
 
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Cause I was thinking/or am thinking I could have left it with the Green as the only drive, but the discovery of the Green's Intellipower RPM and it's ideal purpose (as a backup/storage drive) and not being 7200rpm like I would have preferred lead to the Black being ordered. The idea the Green could slow things down (i.e. games) wasn't something I wanted. But now I'm sort of thinking, do I really need it, or was it one of those purchases I'll regret in a few weeks. I wasn't going to make my new boot drive smaller than my existing one, so it had to be at least 2TB.

But now I have the option of a backup drive right in my build

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Reason I haven't gone SSD is pound per gig it's not as good as a mechanical drive, plus I find mechanical drives plenty quick, just wasn't too happy with the idea of a 5000 rpm drive. The original drive I had picked was a 7200 rpm Barracuda, but then I switched to the Green closer to zero hour not seeing it wasn't a 7200 rpm drive (a combination of brand loyalty and having to rebuild half my parts order really quick). Think I went black over Barracuda for again, because of brand loyalty and Acronis WD edition (rightly or wrongly)
 
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Which is why all my drives are Western, my Black (which is coming), my Green and my Passport
 
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4TB isn't overkill to me. Like everyone said, it depends on your what you're populating the drive with. I take pictures on the side and my camera (Nikon D800) has HUGE file sizes of 75mb each picture, so my drives tend to get filled up quick (have 4 x 1TB external drives that are all nearly filled up lol). Then of course, if you have videos of various sorts, that can fill up rather quickly too.
 
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My typical build has a 120GB SSD for operating system and programs, a 1TB WD Black for the data drive, and a 2TB or 4TB backup drive (you can use one or multiple drives to achieve drive space) located in one computer on the network. I use SyncBack Free to backup files (all documents, pictures, videos, music, etc, and specific files like Outlook DAT files, etc), and I also create an image file of the SSD on the backup drive.

It's not just the boot times that are improved (BTW - 96 seconds down to 8 seconds for me), launching applications like photoshop (12-16 seconds down to 2 seconds), Outlook or other large applications can be annoying....SSD takes everything down to almost instant for me.

I will say, I am not much of a gamer, so if gaming is your priority, you may not get a huge bang for the buck in a SSD (assuming you don't care about boot times, or program launch times).
 
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