Is a recovery partition and EFI system partition necessary?

[Vernon Bradford]

After formatting a new hdd, I noticed I had an EFI system partition and recovery partition on my PNY 240gb ssd (my boot drive). Looking around, I don't see people having this. Should I get rid of these partitions? They are empty and take up capacity for no reason. Is there a point to them or no?

 

[Paul NZ]

They're GPT partitions. if you delete them your system (probably) wont boot

 

[USAFRet]

After formatting a new hdd, I noticed I had an EFI system partition and recovery partition on my PNY 240gb ssd (my boot drive). Looking around, I don't see people having this. Should I get rid of these partitions? They are empty and take up capacity for no reason. Is there a point to them or no?

Leave them be.
As a wise old geek once told me, long long ago..."If you didn't create it, don't delete it"

 

[USAFRet]

Honestly, from my experiences, it is necessary to set a recovery partition in advance to avoid any unwanted data loss issues that may happen someday in the future.

That is a whole different thing.
Needed, but completely different.