[Cutlerbri]

I must concur with VRW here. That sounds like a rockin' system. And it can be a "closed" system without an external drive. All your sessions and VIs can live on that 1TB flash internal. Just make sure you backup everything routinely, and do it beyond Time Machine. Have an external HDD, or even a portable SSD. I recently bought a Samsung T5. Amazing little guy. 500 gigs of bus-powered backup. It's the size of a credit card and totally silent.

My big HDD spinners with their fans and AC power cables have met an early retirement.