Partitioning an NVMe Drive?

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Going back a long way I've always partitioned my hard drives mostly to keep the OS and things like office (/program files) in one place and then games on the D:/ and Media or the E:/

I think it was my old man telling me it was easier to locate certain files back when you needed to remember where you put something.

I now have a 1TB NVMe drive (first one in a new build) and I was wondering, do people still partition drives or does everything just go on the C: drive?


Are there any pros and cons to doing it these days?
 
Semple said:
The reason it was typically done was so that you could reinstall the OS and not have to worry user folders getting wiped.
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Yeah windows 98-ME was savage with that until XP.

I vaugely remember it also kept your OS files closer to the centre of the of the disc for fast read/writes but that might be completly false and I've remembered something from yesteryear wrong. (Mechanical HDDs of course)

mickyflinn said:
Still makes sense to patrician your drives if you want to keep certain data seperate from windows, etc.

Even more so if you only have 1 drive.
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I am assuming that with SSDs/NVMe drives you don't want your OS partition to be too small to run the risk of excessive wear?


1000GB is 840GB

so 150-200GB for Windows, office, etc then the rest for games. Can always get another NVMe but cheaper should I need for less taxing games.
 
benji182 said:
Yeah windows 98-ME was savage with that until XP.

I vaugely remember it also kept your OS files closer to the centre of the of the disc for fast read/writes but that might be completly false and I've remembered something from yesteryear wrong. (Mechanical HDDs of course)



I am assuming that with SSDs/NVMe drives you don't want your OS partition to be too small to run the risk of excessive wear?


1000GB is 840GB

so 150-200GB for Windows, office, etc then the rest for games. Can always get another NVMe but cheaper should I need for less taxing games.
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250gb would be about right but never really worried about excessive wear.

Should get another drive anyway for imoprtant data or cloud backup .
 
I've never really gone overboard partitioning drives. I keep the OS and programs on my NVME (C:) and everything else, such as downloads, documents, etc, on the hard drive (D:). One of the first things I do when reinstalling Windows is to change the location of My Documents, etc, to D:.
 
The main benefit nowadays is if you only have a single 1TB NVME, you might want a smaller OS/apps partition - leaving the rest for games media documents etc.

This way if you have any OS issues, or want to reinstall, you can just reinstall over the C:\ and all you have to worry about is your OS and re-installing your programs.

Then you've still retained your games media docs on the D:\ partition and can re-point the OS documents photos folders etc to the D:\ folders once again.

That said, if you have any important media I'd recommend a cloud backup such as Dropbox, One Drive or pCloud is my personal favourite and have used for many years without a hitch.
 
benji182 said:
I am assuming that with SSDs/NVMe drives you don't want your OS partition to be too small to run the risk of excessive wear?
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Internal operating logic of SSDs doesn't care about file system level borders when it does wear leveling.



ChrisD. said:
You may as well just create a D and E folder in the root of C.
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Which will go the way of dodo if you have to nuke OS for clean reinstall.
Making other partition show as folder under C would be far better strategy.
 
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