new build hard drive question

[chili]

Looking to build myself a new gaming rig and i am probably going to get a
FORCE MP510 SERIES 960GB NVME PCIE M.2 SOLID STATE DRIVE

my question is if i have this as my primary drive would you bother to partition it or just leave it as is?

thanks

 

[chili]

Surely though if you leave it as is you stand to loose a lot more data if it ever fails, got to admit i am one of these people who very rarely do backups of anything

 

[chili]

I'm going against the grain here.. I normally have two partitions.. one for OS and Program and the other for files. I change the physical location of the User folders. I can then backup that partition only to a backup device knowing it all files I need..

i normally have 2 partitions aswell 1 for os the other for everything else the drive i am getting is like 960gb

 

[chili]

I just run scheduled image backups of the entire drive. The overhead of also including the OS and program files is minimal and I can be back up and working in about 15 minutes if something does go wrong. Having additional partitions is just a faff, so 1990s.

So what is the most simplest way to do a scheduled backup and what would i need?