Do you partition off games from windows?

Being picky about partitioning is mostly outdated now what with the switch from HDD to SSD. It only used to be a thing because there were advantages/disadvantages to where the data was stored on a HDD, HDD are mechanical with spinning platters so having something like your OS on the inner part of a platter would give you a bit more performance and reduce access times due the heads not having to seek back and forth across the entire platter.

With SSDs that's irrelevant so it's just easier to have one big partition.
 
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Before I got fibre I'd have steam backups I kept on my local server and generally a partition for games (C for everything else, games on D) but since fibre broadband I've ditched all that.
 
Thanks guys. Some good thoughts there.

Currently have a 128gb nvmw ssd for windows. Which is actually fine for that. Don't really have much else on there. And a 1tb 2.5" for games. I had to delete a game or two when COD was doing a massive 120 odd gig update. It's easy enough to download again though. Maybe I'll get a 2tb ssd and just put games on there when I start to run out of space... maybe I can squeeze a second 2.5" I'm the terra (I want a fan at the bottom where the 2nd ssd would go)
 
I've always had separate drives as it used to be beneficial when it was all mechanical and then it was just a transition through upgrade paths where SSD's back in the day were 40/60/100gb without spending crazy money. Also helped with wear levelling, and I still have my browser cache on an old (but very fast) Intel Optane drive.

Now I'm looking to shuffle drives between my machines and might just go with a 2Tb drive and partition it.
Internet speed is pretty good but not having to redownload games after a Windows re-install and update is quite useful.
 
Get that bigger M.2 (2TB or more) and install windows and the games you play most often on that. If you worry about needing to reinstall windows occasionally or back it up regularly, then partition a few 100 MB off first for the OS, but it really doesnt matter much these days. Steam saved games etc are in the cloud and you can rebuild you games library fairly quickly. It's just personal preference. Personally I'd partition the M.2 as you only have one slot (I'm also on B450 itx )
 
I always have windows on its own drive. Much easier if you want to do a clean install or just swap to a different OS and keep the data. Better redundancy for your data.

I don't tend to use partitioning anymore.
 
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Separate drive for games.

Force of habit now as 95 and XP needed reinstalling every 8 weeks or felt like it.
 
Same as a few others have mentioned, before I got FTTP I used to keep all my games on a separate SSD, now though I just keep a couple installed on my main drive and delete/redownload as required.
 
Never needed more than 250GB NVMe for My OS. And always put games/stuff on either my 2TB SSD or 4TB one. It's just how I've always done it.
It's probably habit from the days when we were using IDE drives and that's when things struggled to keep your OS and games on the same drive running smooth.

And as we know it's write cycles that degrade a SSD/M2/NVMe drive.

Old habits die hard... :p
 
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Ive got a 250Gb NVME drive for windows, a 1TB SATA SSD for games, a 4Tb regular HDD for all my media, documents, photos etc and a 500Gb SATA SSD that i use as a temp store for any downloads.

Then a couple of 2Tb normal hdds in USB enclosures that act as backup drives.

My lads in need of some new drives so i have been thinking of getting a 2Tb fast NVME like a WD Black for Windows / Games and maybe a 4Tb SATA SSD to replace the mech drive. This will free up my 250Gb NVME and the 1tg SSD for his PC. But im not sure storing all the media stuff on an SSD is really worth it so probably leave that on the regualr HDD
 
Maybe not as much of a need to now for me but I do it out of habit. Fell foul of Windows issues years ago and losing things.
 
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