Is it a good idea to get a high storage HDD for primary drive?

xenonn

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Usually, is it better to keep the primary HDD of a higher storage size? What would be a good storage size for the primary HDD?

I'm not sure if I should get a 1TB or 2TB HDD for my primary drive. I won't need even 1TB for now, but I'm thinking if I need, would it better to store the files on a secondary HDD instead of keeping everything on a single huge primary drive?
 

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Agree with dish_moose, get at least a 120GB SSD as the primary boot drive. If you can, get a 256GB SSD with a good warranty. While you're at it, make sure every HD or SSD warranty is at least 3 years. I've had OEM 1 year warranty drives fail right over that 1 year mark.
 

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I am not sure if it is worth paying extra for that little extra speed with an SSD. I'm getting the usual mechanical HDD, which is why I am struggling between a 1TB and 2TB one for the primary boot drive.

If I'm going to just get the mechanical HDD, is it better to keep it at 1TB and then have another secondary drive for storage, or is it better to get a huge 2TB HDD for the primary drive and lump everything into that single primary drive?
 
I prefer a smaller boot drive, 500GB max, and a larger secondary storage drive. This helps keep backing up my OS & programs take less time. This also gives you a different drive to store your backups on. So, I'd say a 500GB primary and a 2TB secondary storage drive. Others have different preferences.