Choosing one big ssd drive or better having a second hdd

I WANT TO REPLACE MY INTERNAL 320 gb hdd with a SSD, is better have a second drive (as my actual hdd) for data or one big ssd whee to put everything on is a best solution even for battery etc
what is the incovenient to have one only SSD.

alidav,
It's quite nice to have a 1TB SSD (mine is almost 1TB at 960GB) and I certainly recommend buying a SSD that fits your needs. However, I would recommend that if you do buy a 1TB SSD that you also invest in, at the least, a 2TB external drive for making Time Machine backups. I use both two Time Machine drives and five clones for my backup needs (a little paranoid, I know) but I have to recommend at least one, if not more, backup schemes.
Good luck,
Clinton
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