Seperate drive trends for OS, Games, vs partitioning ?

[sastusbulbas]

Really just wondering what everyone does or recommends these days.

Since the days of Sata HDD, I went with the likes of a 500gb F3 with a 1tb F3 for games and storage, when SSD came out it was a 250gb SSD for OS, 1tb SSD for games and 4tb HDD for storage.


My SSD's are full, 250 Samsung Pro and 960gb Sandisk.


I have an unused Samsung 850 Evo I could use as an OS drive? Could just drop a 2tb in there for games.


But is it better with current prices just so go for a higher capacity SSD and partition it?

I feel 1tb and 2tb ssd prices are the sweetspots, with 4tb being a little pricy still. Though if money was no object I would like a 4tb ssd for games and 4tb ssd for other storage.

Many of you partitioning main drives or is it simply a smaller boot drive? My three kids are happy with 250gb os drives and 1tb storage.

 

[sastusbulbas]

Well the Samsung 850 500gb is hardly used so will use that for Windows 10 and programs, bought an MX500 4tb to replace the SanDisk 960gb, though now contemplating using that to replace the HGST 4TB HDD instead and get another drive next month for games.

Thank you all

 

[sastusbulbas]

plenty people have single drive and partition it and put backups on one partition

Never liked that idea lol.

I have 2 4tb external drives and occasionally back up the main drive, to be honest main drive is a lot of music, movies, and family photos from days of DSLR use and the only value in there are the family photo's. Some phone back ups. But with mobile phones and streaming the storage rarely see's much added or accessed.

OS drive well with that and used programs simply starting afresh is fine for me, same with a games drive, with downloads speeds and unlimited data I usually see no real benefit to backing up operating systems, programs or games.

Not the most robust or up to par way of doing things I guess, lazy these days.