R.Wieser wrote:

Yesteryear, when drives could hold *much* less than today, that was my
preferred setup too. But nowerdays with its 2 Terra byte smallest size and
my *total* usage (OS and all of my data partitions) of not even 50 GByte it
would be silly to use two of them.

Also, I'm not quite sure what nowerdays the benefits of having two physical
drives would be (for a single-OS configuration).

If all that extra space is bothering you, there are
120GB SSDs for $50.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16820242399

Then, you can use an external HDD (1TB) for backups.

Paul