Seperate apps partition on ssd?

freebooter · 7 Nov 2014 at 20:57

I am waiting for my first ssd to arrive and planning reinstalling windows 8.1 to it. Ever since my Win98 days I have installed windows with the os in one partition and a separate partition for programs. The reasoning was that it produced far less fragmentation and the os partition was quicker to defrag.

From what I have read fragmentation doesn't matter on ssds and they shouldn't be defragged? Does this mean there will be no point in using 2 partitions and I might as well put os and progs in one big partition?

thanks

RJC · 7 Nov 2014 at 21:02

I personally would leave it as one large SSD, worse case install not so often used programs and documents on a separate mechanical drive.

freebooter · 12 Nov 2014 at 21:21

Thanks for the reply. I went for the single partition as I couldn't think of a reason to split it on an ssd.

ED209 · 13 Nov 2014 at 14:05

I left mine as a single partition and used my old HDD (500GB) to store games on i use for single player and doesn't need the speed of the SSD.

moved over all windows temp files and folders to this drive as well, turned off system restore and other things windows use to this drive to save space.

there is nothing worth keeping on my SSD so if a OS re install is required then it doesn't matter. all my steam games are installed on the HDD and a few kept on the SSD which I play online.

as mine was a Samsung SSD the software suggested I put 24GB un partitioned for over provisioning as suggested by the software to prolong the life of the drive.

Which SSD did you go for?