What is the best way to allocate ssd memory on a pc?

Question

Windows

Good evening. Please tell me how to be better. I'm assembling a new PC from and to, and then I stuck with a question about memory.
I want to completely abandon the HDD and use only the SSD.
The question itself: What is the best way to buy 1 hard drive for 480gb and split it into drive C, drive D when installing windows.
Or is it better to buy 2 hard 240gb each, on one windows, on the other third-party files?
PS 240gb for third-party files for my eyes, I don’t play on a PC, the PC is exclusively for work. Motherboard has 2 SATA-3 connectors

Answer 1

It is up to you to decide how to distribute.

I want to completely abandon the HDD and use only the SSD.

I see no reason to abandon the HDD.
An SSD is quite expensive, and using it to store files is not very justified from a financial point of view.
Therefore, a good fast SSD for the system and work files, and a slow but capacious HDD for storage.
On the SSD, everything you actively work with, and on the HDD, movies, archives, rarely used files.
Regarding what is better, one disk is divided into two partitions or two disks.
Other things being equal, two disks will be faster than one.
Although it's still more profitable to take one for 240, but it's very fast, and the rest is on the HDD.
But there are nuances here - how much space the system takes up, and actively used files. For some, this all takes no more than 60GB, so you can get by with a 120GB SSD, for some it all takes about 200GB, here you need 500GB SSD for the system.
In general, keep in mind that SSD cannot be packed to capacity, and it is desirable to allocate over.
As a result -
One NVMe SSD of the required capacity and as fast as possible (recommending to look at Samsung or Intel optan, if the money is real.
And one HDD is slow and capacious.
If you still take a SATA SSD, there is no point in bothering with the SATA version, because it's not critical.

Answer 2

Well, the question is - why split a large disk into two ... create a folder in the root of C and take out a shortcut.
Two disks have such pluses - if one is covered (dead burned down), infa on the second will be alive. The second point - if you simultaneously read and write to both disks - the speed will be almost twice as high.
On the other hand, there are only 2 sata on the mother ... although at the extreme this is solved by pci-e boards

Answer 3

I would choose 2. The thing is, if something happens to one, then the data will remain on the second, in the case of one ssd divided by 2, you will lose both. Also, as I know, ssds are much less durable than hdds, so it makes sense.
Also a plus in the piggy bank of this is that the second ssd can be inserted into a laptop or another PC without any problems and already use the files saved on it there.
There is also a minus - when upgrading, you will have to change the mother or one of the disks

Answer 4

Flies separately, cutlets separately.
I divided it like this:
150GB for the system, programs, garbage in the profile;
The rest is for data that can be taken out of the system partition normally without crutches such as NTFS links.
Mail, portable programs, documents, browser profile, etc. for which you need quick access. The games I'm currently playing and that fit in there.
On the system partition, I made a swap for a gig, so that in the event of a bluing, the dump could be recorded.
Everything quite heavy and unchangeable such as music, video, distribution kits was transferred to the HDD.
On the system partition with my carelessness, 60-70 gigs are free for all sorts of maneuvers. I don't use hibernation. With it, there will be less free space by 8-10 gigs. In any case, big updates and programs that really want to write something to the system disk are more than enough.
Ask your own questions if something is not clear from the text.

Answer 5

Hard drives are not needed. Solid state drives - one.
1. It's easier to upgrade by purchasing a second one. Perhaps already in another computer. Especially critical in laptops, where there are usually only two slots.
2. Less space wasted: there will be no leftovers scattered across different sections.
3. It's more reliable: fewer nodes can fail.

Answer 6

Cider Cherenkov , what do you want to achieve?

• If the goal is to organize file storage space directly on the PC, then any option will suit you, since you have not put forward such a system requirements. Hence it is not clear what she should be able to do.
  
• If you are concerned about the safety of information and losing it is critical for you, then you are better off purchasing external storage, the so-called NAS server.
  

Answer 7

So far, the SSD + HDD layout, which has already become a classic, is ideal, it is taken for specific needs based on SSD: drives C (system), D (work files), HDD: drives E (archive files), F (junk).
If a new computer is being assembled, then the motherboard is immediately searched for with an M2 connector and NVMe support and the corresponding SSD, no SATA, especially wired ones.
HDD for the purpose of storing files is more reliable, durable, cheaper, in case of HDD failure, it is easier to recover files than in case of SSD failure.