Originally Posted by
Dread Pirate Jeff
Late to the party, but not separate partitions, there's no need for that if you're using just one drive, really, but definitely on a separate hard disk (when possible, i.e. not on a laptop). My desktop has a small 240GB SSD for the OS, and a 2TB NVMe for the user directories, plus a 2TB SATA drive that is purely used to back up the NVMe.
It's all good. Partitions were more for systems where you could only fit one drive or the economics didn't make sense... but I find other than some ultrabooks and MacBooks most other recent laptops can handle either a second drive (m.2 or 2.5" of some sort). Otherwise I rarely use partitions any more.