Yes, I think most people would strongly recommend always running a Lightning node with a Bitcoin full node alongside — otherwise you’re having to trust someone else’s node to spot a peer force closing a channel or broadcasting stale state, which could lose you money if your Lightning node doesn’t react in time.

This is also why the drives recommended above are 2TB, most of that is for the Bitcoin node. Lightning nodes don’t use much storage at all.

(1TB would work too but 2 is very future-proof, gives years and years of available space)