Help with setting up dual boot with 1 ssd and 2-3TB hdd's

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Hi,
I am rebuilding my PC (new motherboard, CPU and memory) and could use some guidance in setting up a dual boot PC with 1 SSD and 2-3TB HDD's. I will have Win 8 or 8.1 for both boots. I use one for everyday tasks and one I like to keep "clean" for only music creation applications. I know I can't or shouldn't partition the SSD so I'm not sure how to proceed. I now have a triple boot system with 3 HDD's but only really need 2. I can backup everything onto a 6TB NAS so I can reformat and partition as needed. I haven't purchased the SSD yet so any suggestions would be appreciated. TIA for any help.
 
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You certainly can partition your SSD.
save 10-20% of your ssd aside (overprovisioning) and then create two partitions in the remainder; install away since you already seem to know what to do from there.

For the SSD, Samsung Evo's are hard to beat for the performance they offer at the price.
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You certainly can partition your SSD.
save 10-20% of your ssd aside (overprovisioning) and then create two partitions in the remainder; install away since you already seem to know what to do from there.

For the SSD, Samsung Evo's are hard to beat for the performance they offer at the price.
 
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Thanks for your reply, I did get the Samsung Evo. I partitioned it in two 233GB partitions and am now dual booting Windows 8.1 and 7 very nicely. A question. does the space for overprovisioning have to be unallocated unpartitioned space or can it be formatted unused space?
 
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