I recently purchased a new Samsung 500GB SSD for a very low price. I'll be using it as the primary drive for my desktop on which I'm re-installing Windows 7--replacing a 750GB HDD.
A 500GB SSD is too large for just the OS. I was thinking of dividing it into a ~200GB partition for the OS and a ~300GB partition for data (in particular, a default location for some of the Windows libraries), using the HDD as an ancillary data drive for larger files such as videos, virtual machine images, etc. Is this a good approach? Other than separation of the data should the OS become corrupt, is anything gained by partitioning the SSD?
A 500GB SSD is too large for just the OS. I was thinking of dividing it into a ~200GB partition for the OS and a ~300GB partition for data (in particular, a default location for some of the Windows libraries), using the HDD as an ancillary data drive for larger files such as videos, virtual machine images, etc. Is this a good approach? Other than separation of the data should the OS become corrupt, is anything gained by partitioning the SSD?