Pros and Cons of having a single 2TB SSD one drive PC

[infestedchris]

Hello just wondering what is the pros and cons of having just one main 2TB SSD.

I am not worried about losing data. My computer is gaming / netflix chill system.

I am just want to simplify my life with just one drive that is fast.

[Washell]

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Depending on how often you write to it, it could fail more quickly and without warning.

A not insignificant amount of HDD's will fail in their first 3 months. Yet no-one ever says not to buy a HDD because of that...

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/archive/disk_failures.pdf

Also, the "depending how often you write it" needs to be 24/7 at full speed to bring the failure due to too much writes within 3 to 5 years. My OS drive is ~3 years old now and at 5,4TB out of 75TB to be written. Only 42 years to go until it fails , better start saving now!

[Snapjak]

If you think about it logically, you're more likely to replace the drive from wanting a larger one on sale than you are from it reaching it's write limit or breaking.

[_I_]

game load times depend on the game
some use compressed file formats which do not use the drive as much and use alot more cpu/ram to decompress and load, will be very little diff between a fast hdd vs nvme ssd

[nullable]

Pros: SSDs are great and the more SSD space you have the better.

Cons: More expensive than HDDs.

But SSD's are cheaper than ever. And the cost is worth it, for me anyway. And there's no hard need for multiple drives. Laptops often come with one partitioned drive, for example. Having multiple drives does have some convenience. But not enough that it's a practical must have, so beware people appealing to tradition.

[Autumn_]

Throw the idea of 'wearing the SSD down' out of your mind.
Unless you're writing hundreds of GB a day, for YEARS, you won't see a drive die of writes.
And, reads, they don't cause any damage.

I've got a SanDisk Ultra II, that I've used as my boot drive for like 5 years now. It's also where the page file is located.
It's had ~77TB written to it.

As for downsides to size, not anything, just data loss, since it's all in once place.
Other than that, larger SSDs are faster, use less power, and are cheaper (than multiple SSDs that equal the same size.)

If you have the money, I don't see why not.