In reply to a post by rogerfp:

Plus most likely Windows 10 upgrade will fail if it can't find one!

Certainly not the case in the 4 machines I've upgrade to Win 10
It's more trouble if you have one, as the size needed has increased.

Edited by deleted (Thu 06-Aug-15 09:31:56)

Curious to know why you partitioned your 1TB drive into a C: and. D: drive?

It's something I've done for many years to separate System stuff from user data. I like to feel it gives me more control, and a better understanding of how big the System stuff is.

The reality is that these days with disc capacities and speeds being what they are it's perhaps unnecessary. But hey, it's my PC - despite what some software companies seem to think.

For my next PC, whenever that may be, I'm thinking along the lines of a 256GB SSD for System (i.e. C: drive) and 2TB (or so) HDD for data.

Edit: When I take an image of the C: drive it's also much smaller than if that drive also contained all my data. All my data is secured separately by Genie Timeline

Edited by cheshire_man (Thu 06-Aug-15 19:33:25)

Fair enough Tony, I was just curious. Years ago some used to think that having a separate partition to hold data protected it in some way. There were a lot of disappointed users when being told that when their hard drives had failed or been corrupted their data was gone as well. As you say nowadays all things being considered and the cost of standard drives being so cheap a second hard drive makes more sense. I too followed your thinking and four of my desktop PCs have 1tb SSD's + 4tb 5.25" data drives. I just buy the WD green drives as data drives don't need to be particularly fast, so no point in buying top end.