HD Partitions - 2023 views on Size/Structure

[Crawford]

Folks,

Just wondering what the current thinking is on best practice in terms of partition sizes. Searched here, but didn't find anything very recent.

Using a 2TB NvMe for a general multifunction laptop (Lenovo X1 Gen 9). Should i have a particular size of OS partition? The rest "data", aka general storage? A (third) separate partition for everything that goes into a cloud?

Presumably there isn't much point in a same-disk "back-up" right? "Bad sectors" are really a thing now, right?

Comments welcome!

 

[Crawford]

I let Windows take the entire hog of my 2TB drive, with the exception of the 20% over provisioning that I setup in Samsung Magician.

I also have a hard drive which is partitioned into two drives, one for data/archives (ie: Docments, Pictures, backups), the other for torrents. This way if the SSD should die all of a sudden (which has happened to me in the past), my data is still safe and accessible.

Ummmm. Isn't the SSD a single thing, which will fail or not? It won't fail for one partition and not the other, will it?

Thought i understood this stuff and am getting confused instead!