why 160GB HDD main and 1TB back up?

[jrdn128]

why so many set up use., 160gb as main hard drives and put the higher hard drive as back up?

sorry i cant express my self in english verywell

 

[spirit]

Because we like lots of room to store data and if Windows is installed on a separate drive it means if we reinstall Windows our data on the disk won't be lost. You could make a partition on the other disk but that means you don't get all the space to store your data.

 

[jrdn128]

Because we like lots of room to store data and if Windows is installed on a separate drive it means if we reinstall Windows our data on the disk won't be lost. You could make a partition on the other disk but that means you don't get all the space to store your data.

oh nice., other reason maybe is that? that 120 or 160GB is SDD and the back up is HDD. right? for more faster transfer rate?

 

[jamesd1981]

Most people use a small ssd as there boot drive, because they are much faster but are very expensive per gb.

However most of us have alot of file storage needs, hence the large secondary storage drives.

You can bet most people on here would love a tb ssd, but at a price tag of £1500 not many could afford that for just one component.

 

[strollin]

Having a larger backup drive also allows for multiple backup sets. What if you did a daily backup but didn't find out until 3 days later that a particular file was corrupted? If you have 5 days worth of backups then you could go back 4 days and recover that file.