⚜ Partitioning, or splitting a single physical hard drive into multiple drives, has pros and cons. I'll look at those and make a recommendation.

⚜ To partition or not to partition
Partitioning a hard drive can improve organization, simplify backups, enhance security, and support multibooting, but it may complicate driveletter management, backup processes, and slow HDD performance. Unless you have specific needs, I recommend a single partition using the NTFS file system and organizing data with folders.

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Chapters
0:00 Should I Partition?
0:40 What is a partition?
1:25 Why you might partition a drive
1:55 Backup
2:15 Security
2:35 Speed
3:00 Multibooting
3:10 Why you might not partition
3:40 Backup oversight
4:00 Speed
4:30 False security
5:15 What I do

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