storage size

in the process of building the first cabinet.

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I'm about to install my PC into the cabinet itself.

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I am a bit stuck in a loop though.

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I'm not sure what size SSD I should use.

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I have a brand new 500 GB SATA drive.

I have an older 1 TB m.2 SSD from an old gaming computer.

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My plan has been install Windows on the SATA drive. probably install all of the pinball programs, Doff, pin-up popper, etc onto this drive as well. just drive will be drive :C. I did think having the pinball stuff all on the second drive would be smart. but I think that I might have some issues because installers will want to put those programs onto the C drive.

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at that point I would use my older 1 TB SSD. and put all of my tables, pup packs, all the game files onto that SSD.

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If I go forward with that plan, are there any issues? like I mentioned where popper thinks things are supposed to be one place even though I told them they're somewhere else?

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A second question, for those of you who have a decent size collection of tables, have any of you started to run out of room at 1 TB? I know when TB seems like a lot, table files aren't all that big, but when you start adding pup packs, duplicate updated tables, the worrying side of me is concerned that I run out of room. I don't necessarily think I am interested in having a massive size library of tables. I thought more of a curated collection of tables. I really enjoy. but I also know I like collecting things..

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this will bring me to my second option for storage. I could just bite the bullet and spend $300 on a 2 TB SSD. this seems like it solves any of the file location issues that I'm worried about. basically everything would be on the C drive. It also alleviates the running out of storage issue. whereas I could see a large collection eating up a whole terabyte, having about 1.5 TB for game media and 500 GB for Windows and programs offers quite a bit more. headroom.

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any thoughts on any of this?

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