New SSD, Good idea to partition?

ADP · 22 Sep 2015 at 21:14

Hi there, I currently have a 500gb hard drive in my laptop, partitioned into 2. The C drive is 200gb (OS and some programs), and the D drive partition (video's, music and some documents) is made up of the rest of the HDD.

I originally created a partition because if I have to reformat, then I could do so without having to move my documents, video and music files.

I am going to put a 480GB SSD in place of the HDD. I would like to have a similar set up to what I have now with one partition.

The question is, is there any disadvantaged to partitioning an SSD, or is there nothing to worry about?

Thanks in advance guys.

ED209 · 22 Sep 2015 at 21:15

nothing to worry about, just like a normal HDD and should be fine.

I have 2 x 250GB Samsung 850 evos in mine, one for os and one for games

demon8991 · 22 Sep 2015 at 23:08

You say you are putting a 480Gb SSD in.

Have you considered the 500gb Samsung 850 Evo, pretty much the best 500gb drive you can get.

ADP · 23 Sep 2015 at 12:07

demon8991 said:
You say you are putting a 480Gb SSD in.

Have you considered the 500gb Samsung 850 Evo, pretty much the best 500gb drive you can get.

I know how good the Samsungs are, I have a 840 Pro in my main PC.

The laptop i am putting it in is about 5 years old, so the internal SATA bus speed is limited, so the full speed of the ssd will probably not be reached anyway.

The main reason i went for this SSD (OCZ ARC 480) is because I picked 2 of them up for £71.97 each.

demon8991 · 23 Sep 2015 at 12:20

ADP said:
I know how good the Samsungs are, I have a 840 Pro in my main PC.

The laptop i am putting it in is about 5 years old, so the internal SATA bus speed is limited, so the full speed of the ssd will probably not be reached anyway.

The main reason i went for this SSD (OCZ ARC 480) is because I picked 2 of them up for £71.97 each.

Ahhh fair enough!

DragonQ · 23 Sep 2015 at 13:01

What is the point of partitioning these days? I mean sure, when there was a 32 GB partition size limit when using FAT32 it was necessary but now...?

kayomani · 23 Sep 2015 at 13:11

It might be easier if to use mount points if you want a folder to show up as another disk rather than partitioning it half which is a bit redundant these days.

ADP · 23 Sep 2015 at 13:13

DragonQ said:
What is the point of partitioning these days? I mean sure, when there was a 32 GB partition size limit when using FAT32 it was necessary but now...?

I explained in my first post, if I ever need to reformat, then my documents, videos and music files can be left alone.

sybaris · 23 Sep 2015 at 16:28

DragonQ said:
What is the point of partitioning these days? I mean sure, when there was a 32 GB partition size limit when using FAT32 it was necessary but now...?

Keep your data on a separate partition from your OS. In the event you have to rebuild windows, you won't lose your data, docs, etc.

Also makes windows images smaller.

Having said that always back up the entire drive in one way or another.