Should I partition my SSD for my OS?

[Nuysen]

I'm building my first pc today, but I'm curious to know if i should partition my ssd for windows 10. My boot drive is a 500GB 960 Evo, and all my games and stuff are going on a 2TB WD Black. When my friend had his PC professionally built at our local Fry's Electronics, I noticed that's what they had done. Should i do the same? If so, how would I go about doing that? I can't seem to find any decent answers elsewhere online.

[HZapperz]

In desktop, I have my os and chrome and steam on my ssd, I also the main games I have like pubg and lol on my ssd. Everything else is on my HDD. It's really up to you how you want to do it. 

 

My recommendation is put your os and most used programs on your ssd and everything else on your HDD

[Jurrunio]

Why? This is only for systems with OS and recovery data on the same drive physically.

[Windows7ge]

When you install windows it will automatically create a recovery partition and a couple other tiny ones along side the main partition. Unless you want to dualboot windows along side something else like Linux then creating even more partitions manually won't do much for you.

[Dujith]

There is no reason to do so anymore.

In the olden days it was a thing you had to do due to limitations of diskspace you could use in windows/dos.

[VVoltor]

The main reason I used to partition drives was to save certain data when reinstalling Windows. And sometimes just because it seems more organised to me, like music on one partition, video on another. 

 

Unless you want to dual boot off that drive, those are still the only reasons I can think off why you would partition it in your case. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

The only time where it's handy to have a separate OS partition is if you reinstall your OS a lot. That way you can blow that partition away without losing your data.

 

But since storage is cheap these days, you should be backing up your data regularly anyway for that use-case to be a moot point.

[thanos999]

no need to when you install the os and then the software for the hardrive called samsung  magician it will do something called overprovision heres a picture