Question Creating Partitions on SSD

[XJoeyV]

Dear,

I just got my new PC and I have over 200GB of games and wanted to keep the games when reinstalling windows every 3-6 Months. I have a 2 TB NVMe SSD can I make a separate 1TB or 600GB partition on this. The reason why I ask is that I know you also can't defrag SSDs so I was wondering if partitioning gives any problems.

 

[USAFRet]

It is much safer to have a whole different physical drive.

You can partition that drive, but that is done better when you install it. Not after, like now.

Also, why "reinstalling windows every 3-6 Months " ?

 

[XJoeyV]

It is much safer to have a whole different physical drive.

You can partition that drive, but that is done better when you install it. Not after, like now.

Also, why "reinstalling windows every 3-6 Months " ?

Because my pc collects a lot of junk overtime where I cannot keep track off. So I format and clean install my PC 1-3 times a year to have a clean start. Better performance and no junk.
I do have another M.2 but its only 256GB. So I wanted to partition. And I litterly just got done installing Win and All my software

 

[USAFRet]

Personally, I would have put the OS and applications on the 256GB, and use the 2TB for games, etc.

But, a 3rd party partition tool would work here.
Possibly Minitool Partition Wizard.

 

[XJoeyV]

Personally, I would have put the OS and applications on the 256GB, and use the 2TB for games, etc.

But, a 3rd party partition tool would work here.
Possibly Minitool Partition Wizard.

Alright Ill look into that, also I have a lot of heavy and big computer software. Think of Affinity and Adobe software and some other big things. So 256 is full in no-time.

 

[USAFRet]

Alright Ill look into that, also I have a lot of heavy and big computer software. Think of Affinity and Adobe software and some other big things. So 256 is full in no-time.

Actually, the applications aren't that large.
On my system I have a LOT of applications, incl Lightroom, the entirety of MS Office, etc, etc.
Currently on a 500GB Samsung 850 EVO.

The only thing that made me upgrade to the 500GB from the previous 250GB is the entirety of VisualStudio. That alone takes up ~150GB.

OS and applications on 1 drive, all the data lives on other drives.