You can see in "My Computers" that I too use laptops. I too have only C: SSD drives. Partitioning my C: drives would be a waste of time and would just build in some wasted unused space in the OS partition. For me, partitioning makes no sense. Besides, my last full backup of my C: drive on "System One" took exactly 5 minutes and 36 seconds. I make a full C: image of "System One" every day and since I'm multitasking I go off and do other things while the image runs. I store my images to a 2TB Samsung T7 Shield Portable SSD connected to one of my Thunderbolt 4 ports. I keep a running series of 5 stored images.Next question:
Reading threads here, it seems that a popular practice is to keep data on a partition or physical drive separate from Windows and program installations. Backup is then an image of the system drive and, separately, either an image or file sync of the data partition or drive.
What I've got right now is this:
System and data are all on the C:\ drive.
Macrium image of the full drive taken monthly before Windows updates, daily incremental.
FreeFileSync data sync four times a day.
Both MR and FFS backups are run by scheduler, so I don't have to think about it.
If I were to partition the system SSD, move my data to its own drive partition, and drop it from the Macrium image job, I realize I'd have shorter backup times (once a month) for my full Macrium images, as well as smaller full and incremental image files. But, I'd lose some redundancy if I stopped including the data in the Macrium image.
It seems to me that some run time (unattended anyway) and some HDD space (I've got an excess of that) are less valuable than the redundancy. Your thoughts?
My Computers
System One System Two
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- OS
- Windows 11 Pro
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell XPS 15 9510 OLED
- CPU
- 11th Gen i9 -11900H
- Memory
- 32 GB 3200 MHz DDR4
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 3050Ti
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 15.6" OLED Infinity Edge Touch
- Screen Resolution
- 16:10 Aspect Ratio (3456 x 2160)
- Hard Drives
- 1 Terabyte M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
2 Thunderbolt™ 4 (USB Type-C™)
1 USB 3.2 Gen 2 (USB Type-C™)
SD Card Reader (SD, SDHC, SDXC)
- Internet Speed
- 900 Mbps Netgear Orbi + 2 Satellites
- Browser
- Microsoft Edge (Chromium) + Bing
- Antivirus
- Microsoft Windows Security (Defender)
- Other Info
- Microsoft 365 subscription
Microsoft OneDrive 1TB Cloud
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft PowerToys
Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Macrium Reflect
Dell Support Assist
Dell Command | Update
LastPass Password Manager
Amazon Kindle
Interactive Brokers Trader Workstation
Lightroom/Photoshop subscription
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- Operating System
- Windows 11 Pro
- Computer type
- Tablet
- Manufacturer/Model
- Microsoft Surface Pro 7
- CPU
- i5
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Hard Drives
- 256GB SSD
- Internet Speed
- 900 Mbps Netgear Orbi + 2 Satellites
- Browser
- Microsoft Edge (Chromium) + Bing
- Antivirus
- Microsoft Windows Security (Defender)
- Other Info
- Microsoft 365 subscription (Office)
Microsoft OneDrive 1TB Cloud
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft Visual Studio
Amazon Kindle
Interactive Brokers Trader Workstation
Lightroom/Photoshop subscription