Why do people say that you should have a drive solely for your OS? Does installing other shit like games on the same drive as Windows cause issues? Does it matter?
>>106981970theoretically it is advantageous but realistically it's not going to make a difference
>>106981970>Why do people say that you should have a drive solely for your OSThey don't.
>>106981970I think it was relevant back in the HDD days to reduce seek time and people still repeat it to this day
its a good way to sell more drives
Because of bifurcation bullshit it may be worse to have 2 nvme drives on the same board than 1 you'll have to check your motherboards
>>106982061I hadn't thought of that. That's smart. Another argument I could think of is cost. SSDs were expensive so it would be wise to get a small size SSD where the OS is installed and store your personal file in a cheap HDD with larger capacity.
>>106981970It's not about performance, it's about containing telemetry and DRM hooks. When you install a modern game, it gets kernel-level access. If it's on the same drive as your OS, its hooks can read the Master File Table directly and report on your entire filesystem. By putting games on a separate physical drive, you're effectively sandboxing the DRM and forcing its I/O through a different controller bus, which limits its ability to scan your OS files. It's a basic opsec measure that most people here take for granted.
>>106981970It's nice to be able to format your OS drive and start fresh.Used to do this a few times a year when I still used Windows but with Linux it's not that necessary.I would still install applications and games to the same drive though.Just had the ISO's and installation files on a separate drive.
>>106981970>>106982061>>106982098That's pretty much it.It goes back to like early 2000s when SSD lifespan were short, and they were very expensive. You really only want to reserve them for critical operations (like your OS, not games).Nowadays it doesn't matter.
>>106982115Learn to use a firewall, retard. Or even better : stop giving your money to stereotypically evil companizes.
Isn't it almost required if you want to dual boot windows and not have it rape GRUB?
>>106981970It's more of a convenience and safety thing.If your operating system shits itself in spectacular way, you'll not lose your data because they will be on separate drive.It's something that you'll not notice until shit happens.
>>106982233Yes and when dual booting the safest thing is to have a NAS for all your files.
>>106981970It's the tech equivalent of and old granny telling you to rub butter on a burn. Obsolete advice that was never useful in the first place.>>106982115None of this is true.
by splitting your os from your data, you can move your data on a new system without having to backup and restore everything. if you don't care about that, it doesn't really have any benefits
>>106983984You're a dumb motherfucker. Back in the day there was usually an SSD and a HDD. The HDD was usually bigger anyway but in any case if you only use one SSD it might not last eight years or even four with heavy use.
>>106981970It doesn't even matter nigga, I created a partition just for windows once, even if you install games on your 2nd drive or other software, they will store config files, cache and appdata on your C: drive... also, store your legally aquired offline game backups on a NAS
>>106981970You should actually have two in a RAID 1 mirror.
>>106984044This.I was on a budget with my current PC build, and I reused the old 128GB M.2 as my "OS" drive, and use the new Samsung 1TB M.2 as my secondary. You kinda have to force programs and Windows to utilize your secondary drive, because most (if not all) things like to default to the C: drive and you might not even have a choice to save things where you want them to.
>one SSD it might not last eight years or even four with heavy use.that is a meme as well
>>106984015>hurr durrMore lies.
windows and its legacy software crap themselves when not everything is on the c drive, but windows also requires an ssd to be usableits a terrible operating system
>>106984976you can with symlinks but many older programs just refuse to work
If you blow up Windows and need to reinstall for whatever reason (virus, spilling water on your computer, etc.) cyou won't risk losing your data by keeping anything important on a separate drive.
>>106981970because if something happens to your os which if its windows its basicly a given you wont have to download everything again simple
>>106982098This is the actual reason, nobody had a hard drive just for the OS back in the day, you just had the biggest hard drive you could get or afford and everything was there, sometimes people partitioned it but it was the same hard drive. You bought more hard drives if you needed more space but that wasn't related to having a hard drive just for your OS. Having an OS drive came about with SSDs for the reasons you've given, having a small SSD just for a faster OS with a large HDD for big files like games, movies and photos.
Seperate drives for linux, windows, and all of your data. Makes partitioning easy since you don't have to split up a drive to host both OSs, and if your data is on ntfs, both OSs can access everything. It just werked
I'm autistic so I value separation more NVMEs are also annoying to access so I'd rather leave OS on that and use sata for everything else.
It doesn't matter much on a modern system with an SSD for the boot drive. The main arguments are:Performance - Unlikely to matter on an SSD, either in terms of IOPS or bandwidth. It did used to matter with a spinning HDD, where OS-related requests would slow down game-related IO, and vice versa, because they competed for head seek time.Isolation - Might matter if you're manually installing your games and reinstalling your OS more often. But otherwise it's not that useful. Usually if you reinstall your OS you'll need to re-install your games anyway, and if you're using steam or another game library installing on a fresh system is trivial.Space - The only point that might have a bit of merit. If your OS install SSD is small, games are often large. You don't want to choke out our OS drive with other large installs, as it can be a pain to recover the system if you completely run out of space.Save games are a bigger candidate for storing somewhere else IMO, if and when possible to do so. I almost always lose some game saves I forgot about when I occasionally re-install my OS.
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