I started partitioning my drive based on the data's relative importance+backup needs: - 200GB OS (Optional backup; no user files) - 400GB Data (Manual backup:

I started partitioning my drive based on the data's relative importance+backup needs: - 200GB OS (Optional backup; no user files) - 400GB Data (Manual backup: desktop, users (home), documents, downloads, etc) - 400GB Sync (Synced to cloud: Insync, Dropbox, github repos, mailstore/gyb email backups, etc) - 800GB Ephemeral (No backup; large temporary/recoverable files: Google file stream, scoop.sh, pnpm store, steam games, etc) It's probably easier on linux (package managers), but most of my daily programs can be installed via a single scoop.sh command. - Scoop is mostly on the "Ephemeral" partition, but has a "persist" folder that points to the "Data" partition - I favor the home directory of git-bash for windows (vs Windows profile home), which is synced via DropBox - Most of my git repos are also synced to dropbox. However I use insync to sync them so I can omit the massive, numerous node_modules folders. - It takes a little configuration to ensure folders like desktop;home that would normally exist on the OS partition are on the Data partition or Ephemeral partition as needed.