How can I use my second HDD as just storage?

Do I Need a Mechanical HDD If My SSD Has Sufficient Storage For My Use?

  • I have purchased numerous parts for my new gaming rig and figured that my 128 GB SSD is more than enough space and that I won't need a traditional mechanical hard drive. I do remember someone had advised that I shouldn't, but I do not remember the reason why. I heard that SSDs aren't good for permanent storage, but as I mentioned before, this is just a rig for gaming.

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    it will be fine. i have had 3 ssd's over 3 years and none have failed. hope you bought quality though

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128gb is not very much after you add in the amount of memory that the operating system takes up and the memory for whatever games you play and other software you may add. You do not need a HDD, but for storing more than maybe 2-3 games plus browsers, word processors, music, etc you will want one.

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It's not that they aren't good, but the price per gigabyte on SSD is much higher. What that person meant was: It's pointless to store non-program data (e.g. music, documents) on a SSD because disk I/O doesn't matter nearly as much. You can eventually exhaust all of the write capabilities on a SSD, but a mechanical HDD would probably die first. So - Conclusion: You only need a mechanical HDD if you need a lot of storage space for a cheaper price.

Brian C

First of all, you need a second drive to do backups! Second, a SSD should never have a paging file (swap/page file) on it, as that creates a lot of read/writes, that can cause premature failure of a SSD. A SSD should be use ONLY to load and run the OS, everything else should be on a secondary drive.

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