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...on 2 drives, one at 500GB and one at 1.5TB.

Also I presume you followed the usual SSd guidelines and turned off hibernation, changed the pagefile to be on your other drive and made sure defrag is off?

I only have one HD in my laptop.

I have a 2 partitions, one for OS and programs, one for all my data.

I don't see the point of splitting my data over multiple partitions. At some point you will run out of space on one or the other partition.

Just keep it simple and leave the 500GB as one

I used to go partition crazy but when I used different drives for different purposes, I just found myself wasting a lot of space. For example, I never filled my games drive. If I were to switch things around a bit so I had less space, I'd eventually run out of space on certain drives. So in the end I fell back to one partition for each physical drive too.

On a Windows based machine, what comes after :Z?

You can connect an unlimited number of drives to Windows, but you can't assign a letter to more than 24 of them (A & B are reserved for floppy drives). Although you wouldn't be able to assign a letter to them you can mount them to a folder and access them that way, much like how you can on Linux.

So, in reality you just start using something other than the letters after Z, but I doubt many people run into this issue...

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...on 2 drives, one at 500GB and one at 1.5TB.

Also I presume you followed the usual SSd guidelines and turned off hibernation, changed the pagefile to be on your other drive and made sure defrag is off?

I understand that the page file could cause excessive writes, but wouldn't you want that on your fastest drive to make the system more responsive? If so, placing it on the slowest drive would hurt performance...

One, I don't see ANY reason for Partitioning anymore.

Same, and I?m also on a Mac. Except that I have a 50 GB partition dedicated to Windows 7 (meh. no choice).

Back then with Windows XP seven years ago, I had 5 partitions : Windows XP, Games, Applications, Music, Downloads.

To sum it up, the more people use partitions, the more space they lose.

On Windows 7 I typically go one partition per logical drive and mount them into one file system; primary system uses a RAID 1+0 array, the rest are straight up physical drives. My Unix boxes go with a three partition setup.

(A & B are reserved for floppy drives).

This is only half true. A: is reserved, B: is not. Windows doesn't automatically make attempts to utilize B: these days, but you can manually assign it. In Hyper-V and vSphere I normally change the drive letter on my virtual optical drive to B: for my master virtual disk images (templates).

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