I'm planning to purchase a XPS 8700 Special Edition desktop. I'm dissapointed that it doesn't give options for this model- for hard drives, only "2TB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive 6.0 Gb/s + 256GB SSD"- which of course is a good combination, but for me, I think a smaller SSD drive would be fine. Otherwise, I like the rest of the system. A friend who builds his own PCs says he installed a 128 G SSD and it's plenty large with Win8, MS Office, Photoshop and other major programs installed.
So, this is just a comment, not a problem, but I wish Dell would offer more options, including a 3 or 4 TB drive. A Dell tech suggested going to workstation route- but when I looked there, I was a bit confused about the drives- the workstations all seem to have multiple drives, probably for Raid configurations, which is something over my head and over my needs.
Or, is it a good idea to have plenty of empty space on the SSD?