Partitioning an NVMe Drive?

[benji182]

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?

 

[benji182]

The reason it was typically done was so that you could reinstall the OS and not have to worry user folders getting wiped.

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)

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.

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.