Alright, the upgrade is done. I ended up with two 1TB EVOs, one for OS and apps, the other for samples. I left the old HDD in as well which has helped with migrating data. Still working on getting everything ironed out, but it's going well and everything is much faster now. It went quite smoothly; the only thing I seem to have messed up on was somehow blanking during the OS install and leaving the SATA config in RAID instead of changing it to AHCI. I learned what a boot loop is trying to change that after the fact, so I guess it's just going to stay that way 
There are some workarounds for that but frankly it's already faster by far than the previous setup and I'm not sure I want to delve into more arcane territory just yet. Hopefully now I can get back to working on tunes!
Update: Fixed that SATA controller thing pretty easily by finding a guide that let me switch to AHCI in Safemode with a couple of steps. Really enjoying the speeds of the SSDs. An 8.5GB project takes about a minute or so to load, and I moved 55GB of drum samples from the HDD to the storage SSD in 7 minutes. Coincidentally, at work someone needed to recover 8GB of data and it took several hours
There are some workarounds for that but frankly it's already faster by far than the previous setup and I'm not sure I want to delve into more arcane territory just yet. Hopefully now I can get back to working on tunes!Update: Fixed that SATA controller thing pretty easily by finding a guide that let me switch to AHCI in Safemode with a couple of steps. Really enjoying the speeds of the SSDs. An 8.5GB project takes about a minute or so to load, and I moved 55GB of drum samples from the HDD to the storage SSD in 7 minutes. Coincidentally, at work someone needed to recover 8GB of data and it took several hours
