hd thoughts

nerdshack888 · 9 Nov 2025 at 20:58

I have just built my first pc and have windows 11 on a 1tb m.2, my question is if i partition the drive so boot drive has say 250gb space what can i use the rest for, i have a separate 2tb drive for games, i worry that if i put games on the 1tb drive it might slow down windows as its on the same drive but want to separate the 1tb drive to partitions before i install too much stuff on windows but cannot really think of what else i can put on the games but games but it seems a waste to have 1tb drive empty except for windows on it maybe taking up 100gb to 200gb.

hornetstinger · 9 Nov 2025 at 21:01

Just do single partition

Windows + games, leave about 10-15% free don't fill it up all.

It won't slow down, read speed of nvme is so fast it won't effect it at all.

InkZ · 9 Nov 2025 at 21:32

Just stick with the single partition. Stick games on it until full, then put them on your second HDD. It won't slow down.
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nerdshack888 · 10 Nov 2025 at 02:20

thanks for the replies, i just wondered if i partitioned the boot drive and kept the windows partition about 200-300gb it might be easier to backup that partition rather than having to pinpoint which folders to backup in a disorganized drive with windows and games and other files on.

Snapshot · 10 Nov 2025 at 06:45

No, it doesn't really make it easier as to properly backup the drive you need to backup the boot and recovery partitions as well as Windows so you need to backup the whole volume. I gave myself this problem by using a 2TB drive as my boot volume and partitioning it as 512GB for Windows and application then the rest for data. There's one very large data folder that I do not want as part of the nightly backup so I have to exclude it in the backup software but it only needs doing once.