Are these Mini-PCs any good? In case you have one, any recommendation on which to get? - Web page 3

And now my subsequent step is mentally making ready for the arrival of the Beelink mini PC which can arrive in about 3 days.

The first factor I used to be contemplating earlier than putting in any software program or knowledge was to partition the 1 TB SSD to about 300GB on C Drive (for OS and packages) and go away the remaining as D (for knowledge).

However been studying up on it and supposedly you needn’t partition SSDs anymore, as was accomplished up to now on HDDs as insurance coverage towards a virus or OS failure that would wipe out all of your knowledge.

Is that true now, with SSDs? As a result of some recommend it is nonetheless a good suggestion to partition your knowledge, even tho partitioning an SSD is not going to assist in different areas, corresponding to dashing up knowledge entry and so on, prefer it did on HDDs.

However I nonetheless really feel like doing the partition anyway for knowledge solely. It will possibly’t harm, proper?

On the Acer I partitioned the HDD to 50-50 once I obtained it.
I presently solely have 229 GB on C, and 315 GB on D.
So I believe I approach over did it on C Drive with a 500 GB partition!

Then as soon as the partition factor is sorted out, I am eager about backups,
and contemplating putting in a 2nd inner 1TB SSD for each day automated (stay?) backups.

Would proceed with the occasional backups to Ex-HHDs (rotating between a number of of them) however focusing totally on backing up solely sure folders from D, like Paperwork and Desktop solely, since I not often add to music or photographs nowadays. And people are very massive folders to be always replicating them to Ex-HDs like I have been doing for years.

So my plan is to do one full backup of the 1 TB SSD as soon as I’ve all of the packages put in and the information copied from the Acer to Beelink. Then sooner or later not do full backups each time as I have been doing for years now.

And that 2nd SSD put in contained in the Beelink can be a continuing ongoing again up anyway.

So does that sound like a plan?