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Best Drive Layout
In the early days of computing, it was often recommended that the OS live on a separate disk, or at least a separate partition. In this new age of solid-state disks, what do you recommend? Cost and space for multiple disks isn’t an issue.
–Daniel Swanson
THE DOCTOR RESPONDS: Keeping the OS (and apps) separate from your data is pretty much a matter of personal convenience—the key thing is that you don’t get lulled into a false sense of security and forget to keep everything backed up separately. The Doc has long split his data from the OS and apps—originally through partitioning, but now on separate drives. That’s largely down to the smaller size of SSDs compared to regular HDDs, coupled with a growing accumulation of drives over successive rebuilds.
Long story short: If you want to follow the Doc’s layout, start with a
