Should I partition harddrive with raid 1?

[68malibu383]

New build and have the OS on a small SSD. Have two 1T drives in raid 1. Should I still partition the "one" drive to separate programs from files? Thank you.

 

[JaredDM]

In my opinion, there has been no good reason to create a separate programs partition on a HDD in a long time. Only really old drives saw a significant speed drop in the inner tracks, newer drives it's less than a 10% slowdown from beginning to end. So don't bother unless you've got some OCD reason you want them separate.

Just install the programs you use all the time on the SSD, that's where you'll see the real speed difference.