In shopping for potentially a new computer, I noticed these days that all manufactures offer a SSD as the primary drive. And these offerings range from 250GB to 2TB. My current 500GB SSD seemed right for my needs.

But then I noticed that most manufactures recommend a smaller SSD for your second drive, usually a 250GB or 500GB drive. Why would this be better that having, say, a 2TB HDD that would hold more data?

Is there an advantage to having a two SSD configuration such as this? If so, what would the advantage(s) be?

Just curious....

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BB
http://barrypatch.net

I use two but the second one is mainly for File History backups and system backups. SSDs fail so infrequently that you are probably OK with one big one. A lot of the storage thinking is still based on the old days when drives failed a lot.

I run 2 M.2 SSD drives just to do clone backups of my system drive.

Personally I don't see much sense in having a smaller second drive as the second drive would, in most cases, be used as a data drive which I would tend to want larger.

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The laptop I'm using at the moment is an HP with Windows 11 and that just has one drive, it's a 500GB SSD.

The one I used before, which I still have, had Windows 10 with 2 drives, a 128GB SSD and a 1TB Hard Drive which I used for data and as many programs I could put on there.

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Joan Archer
http://crossstitcher.webs.com

I see no sense at all in having a smaller drive as a secondary drive, be that SSD, IDE, or whatever.

The only conclusion i can think of is that because some people (i was going to name names but probably best i don't) think that having everything in the Windows default partition is the only place to store data.... i'm surprised to hear we haven't moved on from that mentality!

I used to get such stick when i was an advocate for promoting full screen video on a dual monitor system, but now it's the norm (full screen video was once seen as the holy grail for the end of the world if you listened to the neigh sayers)... i'd love to know who some of these backward thinking manufactures are so i can... educate them!