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Where do you keep your programs and data?
As an old guy burned too many times by versions of Windows that flew erratically and all too often disintegrated in mid-flight, I have taken to keeping my programs and data in partitions (often on separate physical disks) from the OS.
So when Windows cratered, I didn't have to exhume my collected works, merely endure a reinstall of all my (intact) programs. Since Windows 3.1 I can only remember one HDD that actually committed sepuku without sufficient warning for me to copy off its contents. Windows OTOH ...
In terms of speed I have imagined that the computer can be fetching and serving at the same time if the OS and the program are being controlled by different heads on different pipelines.
So, what say you all - does it make a difference, or do you just bung them wherever Windows defaults to and call it good?