SSD, HD or both in laptop?

[Sonia O'Gorman]

I understand that using a SSD in a laptop is beneficial as it increases speed and is less likely to have problems due to no moving parts.
My question is:
Is it better to solely have SSD or a combination of SSD and HD?

 

[something back]

I understand that using a SSD in a laptop is beneficial as it increases speed and is less likely to have problems due to no moving parts.
My question is:
Is it better to solely have SSD or a combination of SSD and HD?

I would say having the ssd as the main drive will be best, an additional hdd is a very
handy thing to have for storing files, photos and more importantly a systems recovery backup.

 

[Ian]

Yep, I'd agree with that too - although not many laptops can support two drives. SSDs are expensive and fast, so good to use for the main OS + apps. Slower HDDs are cheap and slow, so great for storage (i.e. photos, etc...).