New computer help

[Val]

Thank you for your help

I think I may do it that way because I can easily add extra memory later, I use acronis true image for backups so I could swap the drive later but swapping the HD later will be a bit more of a faff and then also worrying about people accessing my "deleted" drive if I try to sell the old HD

There are some details here - if you are concerned about security do not buy SSD -the information never gets really deleted there and at some point if you change it somebody can read it.

That is the last thing to worry about SSD though - some SSD devices from some manufacturers have really bad reliability problems.

Generally SSD technology has very low endurance compared to HD - in the magnittude of 100x-200x worst.

Also it is very expensive per Mb.

For above reasons I will never install and rely on SSD only. IMO is better to have small and good manufacturer quality SSD for the operating system and the programs only - this way your PC will start and work faster.

But keep high volume and important data on a HD for reliability and cost reasons.

Backup is fine but usually disks fail before you do backup and you loose all that has not been backuped yet.

Even RAID 0 or RAID 5 configuratin HDs. Raid means several HD drives working together if one disk fails you do not loose your information and can change the disk and continue.

This way I know my information is protected.

Think about it are you ok if you loose all your data there? Probably yes if all important pictures are on flick and you keep other important famility documents in the cloud say Google drive or Microsoft OneDrive.

If you keep all important data locally on that PC SSD only is a no go for me and you need fault tollerant HD configuration