>>105976064
it's way messier and horrible.

video games:
>save files
>config files
>shader caches
>directX libs and drivers
>crash logs, steam settings etc
and all kinds of random shit get installed to OS drive

same goes for many other applications. you can't possibly hope to avoid contaminating the OS drive with tons of random shit from your game and app installs.

the only thing that can be kept cleanly separated is media and maybe documents.

it's just so ugly and janky having a bunch of messy drives that supposedly do one thing but are all interlinked. you have to set the install and save location manually in so many apps, its just a huge hassle pain in the ass headache nightmare. not worth the hassle man.

what do you REALLY need to protect from a drive failure? any important files should always be backed up to external drive and cloud. code files are always in git, apps are containerized, docs are all in the cloud, photos backed up, windows settings backed up etc. it's all backed up.

and i've never had a drive fail either. the old wisdom of not installing windows on a RAID is outdated boomerism