Has anyone switched from using two drives to just one, but have it partitioned?

[z0mbi3]

I've pretty much always had one drive for my OS and one drive for my downloads, however recently I've been considering ditching this method. I've been thinking about getting a 1tb eco drive and breaking it up into two or three partitions.

I know there's not so much resilience in there in the event of a drive failure, but the way I see it is that if a drive is going to die it'll do so early on it's life, and so long as you have a good backup strategy in place you should be covered anyway.

Has anyone else made this sort of change?

 

[z0mbi3]

z0mbi3, do yourself a favour and only create two partitions. just manage the folders neatly on the second partition and you're sorted

Sounds about right. I tend to keep them tidy anyway.

Only reason I'd considered doing three would be to keep a local backup separate.