[SOLVED] Is it better to have a separate boot drive or just 1 large capacity SSD?

[Sagar_20]

What out of the two is a better choice?

 

[WildCard999]

Depends on your storage needs. For me 500gb to 1TB is plenty so I'd go SSD however for those with several TB's worth of storage then going lets say, 500gb for a SSD & 3TB HDD combo may be the better choice.

 

[USAFRet]

Different people have different opinions.

Some people, like me, prefer a dedicated drive for the OS and applications. Other physical drives for other things.
My system has 6x SSD, each for a specific purpose.

Other people prefer a single large drive for everything.

 

[popatim]

I prefer to have, at minimum, a dedicated data drive so that if I have to reinstall windows I don't have to rescue my data first. Not that its not backed up a bunch of times already, I'm just lazy and don't want the extra hassle of copying in several terabytes back too.

For me it's basically
SSD: OS & Apps (2TB) {recent upgrade}
SSD: A few VM's (1TB) {my old OS drive}
HDD: Data (3tb Mirrored)
HDD2: Downloads, junk, and other Misc stuff (5tb) {ok, i'm a hoarder}