What is better a 1TB SSD with everything on it or a 256 GB SSD along with a 1TB HDD?

[Stoneix]

I really want to make a pc and I have slowly been getting parts but I am not sure what's better. Also if its the 256 SSD with the hard drive what things do I put on each storage device?

Thanks in advance

[FloRolf]

SSDs are so cheap right now, it's hard to justify the savings of a (small) HDD. If you wanted 8TB+ that would be different, but 1TB is nothing anymore. 

[Poinkachu]

7 minutes ago, Stoneix said:

I really want to make a pc and I have slowly been getting parts but I am not sure what's better. Also if its the 256 SSD with the hard drive what things do I put on each storage device?

Thanks in advance

If its 256gb ssd + hdd

You want at least your Windows installation on the SSD, and games you often play and will never uninstall.

 

Honestly, just buy 1 TB.

If you want to split the OS with the datas, just partition it the way you want it.

[ImWilly]

Based on your configuration choice, I'm gonna assume you're aiming for a budget laptop

In my opinion, it would be best to go for 1TB SSD

SSD has way much faster speed than HDD, and it will have significant performance boost from booting, loading, gaming (fps and loading screen), sleep to wake, etc.

Then, you can save up some money for later to buy some high capacity HDD such as 2 or 4 TB, or even another SSD to fill in the available SATA SSD slot.

 

Because 256GB SSD is just hardly usable, this is probably the directory for Windows OS, and once you install several app or games, it will run out of space anyway, which makes 256GB SSD is practically unuseable

[dcgreen2k]

I would just get the 1TB SSD. The price of SSDs has gone down so much that the 1TB SSD really isn't that much more expensive than the HDD.

[RobinD]

TLDR: SSD storage is now cheap (ish), just buy SSD and use a free cloud backup .

Depends what you use case is.

Will 1TB be enough is the data long term or will you increase it in time?
Is the data critical/ of high value to you and you want it quick to hand?

I built a budge machine recently with a 256GB SSD (free) and a 2nd hand 1 TB drive from ebay for £20. The user had no unique data, it was to play on steam on a mid/budget PC. All data was also held in steam or other cloud services. This is a good use case for 2nd hand HDD , data you don't care about. 

New HDD can be used if your worried your data need will increase quickly talking multiple TB and that awhole other chat. 

SSHD I don't use these unless free they may as well be HDD's in my mind due to their performance

SDD Sata are a budget SSD option but you get a hugh jump from HDD , they have a place on cheapers PCs

SSD M.2 are cheap eno to meet most use cases, the improvement from SSD sata to M.2 is not small but not as much as like HDD to SSD sata but they are an improvement over SSD Sata none the less. 

 

[Stoneix]

Thank you all for helping me I'm going to go with a 1TB SSD, I never even knew it would be faster I thought it would just be more convenient and its cheap enough to make the hard drive go out of the question

[SamucaFO]

1TB to 2TB I would go with ssd. There is a lot of cheap 1TB to 2TB good old models ssd nvme that still is dozen times better than HDD and that  costs almost the same price.

HDD = for data storage nowadays: 8TB+