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suspecting that Windows 10 is causing problems since the machine is constantly downloading security updates. I use SSD for Windows 10 installation then I use a regular 6/gbs hard drive for my ~/user space and ~/download space and ~/installation space (everything installed that's not OS), and of course ~/swap space or ~/page space. Then, all I back up is the SSD drive to yet another hard drive. You can even use a large USB drive to backup and create recovery usb drives. The idea is to erase/write as little as possible to the SSD drive since they have a finite # of rewrites. Windows 10 installation drivers for SSD drives are known to be rock solid. I can't imagine you having TRIM turned on cause I think Windows 10 won't let you. Bottom line is there is too much exposure for using just 1 SSD drive. It's better (IMHO) to use 1 SSD and 1 Hard drive. I use and SSD of 120gb and 1tb drive with 120gb reserved for backing up the SSD drive. Your SSD drive should have diagnostic tools that came with it. It's tough to use when your computer is down, but thats why I have the USB sticks as last resort. I boot to the USB disk and run what diagnostics I need to there. There are many ways to create restore disks, but I've always have had problems with Windows UEFI cause Microsoft is a dick that thinks it's the only OS you'll want to run on the computer. For some reason (probably a setting I haven't discovered yet) creating another boot drive/partition makes my old drive/partition unbootable.

Hi Fhios,

Thank you. Let me get clear. Are you saying all your programs and Windows 10 OS should be on the SSD, and the user data on a separate disk?

In my case I use a laptop exclusively. I use USBs for incremental backup. But sounds like I should be using a hard disk for my user data. So for the laptop, should I take an external HD drive with me all the time? The laptop only has one disk.

Many thanks.