Why have a dedicated drive for the OS?

[tyler1414]

I have heard of having a separate total drive for an operating system. Why would I want this? Also would saving a separate partition for your OS do the same thing? If so, how much memory should I leave for a windows 8 os?

 

[USAFRet]

Not for only the OS, but the OS and all applications.
Your personal data and games go elsewhere.

This way, when you need to reinstall the OS for whatever reason, your data is untouched.

 

[Bezzell]

Well it depends on the size, type and how many drives you have. It's mostly for convenience of reinstalling windows. You can reinstall the operating system without wiping out all your media and such. Most common way now is

SSD for windows boot drive and installed programs (photoshop, utilities and such)

Mechanical drives for storage (movies, music, .iso file)

 

[tyler1414]

Does leaving a drive for your os make it preform better? I would think if the os was working on your ssd while another ssd is working on your programs, they would not bog up each other.

 

[tyler1414]

Well it depends on the size, type and how many drives you have. It's mostly for convenience of reinstalling windows. You can reinstall the operating system without wiping out all your media and such. Most common way now is

SSD for windows boot drive and installed programs (photoshop, utilities and such)

Mechanical drives for storage (movies, music, .iso file)

Does leaving a drive for your os make it preform better? I would think if the os was working on your ssd while another ssd is working on your programs, they would not bog up each other.

 

[USAFRet]

Well it depends on the size, type and how many drives you have. It's mostly for convenience of reinstalling windows. You can reinstall the operating system without wiping out all your media and such. Most common way now is

SSD for windows boot drive and installed programs (photoshop, utilities and such)

Mechanical drives for storage (movies, music, .iso file)

Does leaving a drive for your os make it preform better? I would think if the os was working on your ssd while another ssd is working on your programs, they would not bog up each other.

No, they don't 'bog up each other'.

My current system:
OS and applications on one SSD
Working files on a second SSD
2 x HDD for other stuff, incl games.