Why do I need 2 fat plates for my gaming PC why?

Why do I need 2 fat disks for my gaming PC why

So my buddy who built my PC knows his way around and I mean nothing, he meant Windows and all other programs like Excel, Word etc. Come on your SSD and your games like GTA COD Minecraft etc. Come on your HDD on F.

Why don't you play all games and all programs on C, but rather make a separate record for games and everything else and not even an SSD?

Why not put everything on a hard drive and you're done.

Who has an idea why what was his thought behind it?

Has there any reason for that, who of you does that too and why?

I look forward to an answer

Because an SSD is more expensive per storage unit.

But since many games can't take advantage of the speed advantage, it would be pearls to the swine if you save all games there.

In the end, it's also a question of money. Something like films and pictures can be saved on an HDD (with any partition letter) without any problems, so you don't miss anything.

However, some games can now benefit from an SSD. However, only in the loading screens. You can't expect more FPS from it.

In principle, this behavior comes from the time when there were only HDDs. At that time you used different disks for OS and applications for performance reasons. Today, with SSDs, this is no longer as important as it used to be, but it is still advisable to keep an overview.

But I would generally advise you to forego the second HDD and buy a second SSD straight away.

SSD storage space is more expensive. That's why you just put the operating system there so that the PC itself is faster and starts up faster. For everything else you then use the HDD (they would of course be faster on an SSD, but would be very expensive for the amount of GB that all games need together).

My dad said that I don't need 2 hard drives but a 2TB SSD where everything above is sufficient, or do you see it differently

You can do that Nevertheless, I would recommend setting up a separate disk for Windows for the overview and general handling.

Money and speed are the reasons for 2 plates.
All programs and data must be permanently stored somewhere.
If programs are to be started, they must be loaded from permanent memory into RAM.
If an SSD is used as permanent storage, this is much faster than with an HDD. The latter has to bring the read head onto the track where the data is located. It also has to turn to the relevant position. That takes time. Programs and data that are used often should (do not have to) be stored in fast permanent storage. In terms of bytes, it is also much more expensive.
If you can't wait after switching on the PC, Windows can be a huge annoyance when the virus scanner and everything else has to be running, you need an SSD.
For a 2TByte SSD you can pay 250 to 300 €. For a HDD just 50, - €

The lifespan of an HDD is also much longer today. The SSD also decreases with the number of write accesses.

A large amount of RAM, because it does not have to be swapped out to an SSD or HDD, is recommended.

Your friend has surely already found a good compromise.

With a 2TB SSD you are on the safe side. A Samsung EVO would be great, but a Samung QVO would significantly slow down the startup of the operating system and programs. But the former costs 250 euro, the latter only 180 euro. If you consider starting games as a "luxury", a 500GB SSD and a 2TB hard disk would also do it, which together would be significantly cheaper. Both cost around 50 euro each.

But in principle it would not matter whether everything is on one hard drive or on 2?

Yes, in principle it doesn't matter with SSDs. In this sense, you have no disadvantages, but of course you can't use the advantages of two plates.