Thinking about storage and restore point

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As of now my pc has a 512gb ssd. Thing is lightning fast and I love it. I am aware this is undersized and will fill up fast but it is an ASUS machine and I have at least a 2 year warranty on it so I may be stuck with keeping my system lean for those two years unless I break warranty.(or if I feel brave enough to try and finagle warranty sticker)

I have about 200gb used already with about 10 current gen gaming titles on, so that leaves me with about 200gb left, which isn't a whole hell of a lot.

Sufficient storage space aside I did recently create a restore point with OS, a few apps and video games installed. I worry about drive going and losing OS because I only have one storage drive and any games I've downloaded on and having to reinstall. At this point is a system restore enough or should I purchase an external drive if I'm really that worried about losing data and OS. Are cloud options worthwhile, or is another internal SSD my best bet. I'm not in a rush because the rig is new but I want to get some ideas. thanks in advance
 
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1. Yes, you could clone the contents of your 512 GB SSD to the 2 TB HDD which will be serving as a secondary drive. Now the likelihood is that the 2 TB drive under those circumstances would be bootable as a USB external device. This is NOT a given, however, some systems balk at booting from a cloned USB external drive, however, keep in mind that the contents of that cloned USB external HDD could be cloned back to a internally-connected drive (SSD or HDD) assuming the original boot drive became defective and you've replaced it with a new drive, and thus be able to resurrect your system easily and fairly quickly. The same would be true in the event that the original boot drive while not defective becomes corrupt because of some...
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Just buy a 1tb HDD and leave all your data on that and leave the ssd as the boot disk. As for backing up your data, alot of cloud options dont backup large files. im a reseller of a cloud based backup software and they do not backup files over 1gb unless your willing to pay premium price. So as for backing up games i know reinstalling is a bit of a annoyance but your gonna pay unless you do it yourself with a external
 
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I would agree with Jared that your best course of action is to purchase a USB external HDD. If and when you do, I would advise you NOT to purchase a commercial "one-piece" commercial unit but rather a USB external enclosure (or docking station) of your choice together with a HDD of your choice. I can assure you of a superior configuration with this setup as opposed to a commercial unit because of the inherent better performance & flexibility of this arrangement.

Now I think you should consider at least a 2 TB HDD external drive rather than the 1 TB HDD Jared suggests. The slightly add'l cost shouldn't be terribly significant and you'll probably need the add'l disk-space by & by. And you could utilize the higher capacity of the 2 TB disk if & when (as you should!) you clone the contents of your 512 GB SSD to the larger secondary drive for comprehensive backup purposes.

 
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Right, so cloning the disk allows me to boot off of the clone if the original goes bad? So if I had my 1 or 2 TB external HDD and my primary 512 SSD went bad I could just boot off of the external and then migrate that clone to another SSD?

I Would at some point like to just get a larger SSD as my primary, they are so damn fast.... I may do the 1TB external and clone my 512 SSD, then wait for warranty period to be over and then purchase a larger sized SSD as my primary replacement... I figured in 2 or 3 years time that a SSD of that size would have come down in price.

I just want to stay on top of things and always have a backup drive that is easily accessible in case one goes bad. I read that some SSD only have about a 3-4 year life span and that is the sole reason I'm looking into this. I want redundancy in my system
 
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1. Yes, you could clone the contents of your 512 GB SSD to the 2 TB HDD which will be serving as a secondary drive. Now the likelihood is that the 2 TB drive under those circumstances would be bootable as a USB external device. This is NOT a given, however, some systems balk at booting from a cloned USB external drive, however, keep in mind that the contents of that cloned USB external HDD could be cloned back to a internally-connected drive (SSD or HDD) assuming the original boot drive became defective and you've replaced it with a new drive, and thus be able to resurrect your system easily and fairly quickly. The same would be true in the event that the original boot drive while not defective becomes corrupt because of some malware/virus and thus dysfunctional.

2. Don't be overly concerned about the supposed failure of SSDs over a relatively short period of time. That has not been our experience with dozens of SSDs of different makes/models over the past five years or so. They hold up quite well in our experience. There's a good deal of nonsense promulgated on the net re their supposed shortness-of-life. Of course they fail - like every other PC component but not unduly so based on our experience.
 
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Thanks for the advice. I do actually have a 2 tb external hdd that I'm using for xbox one currently. Its funny because I just got it for that and after getting this pc I realize my switch to mainly gaming on superior pc is evident. Perhaps I'll reformat it for my pc clear all the xbox data and just use that in the mean time, if this is advisable to do so. My xbox is only 500gb but its definitely taking a backseat to this gaming rig for the forseeable future. Will probably only use as blu ray player and hd streaming device from now on.
 
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