Steam was great and then this roadblock happened.

[A Black Falcon]

I like it better that way... I feel like it makes it easier to organize my harddrive when I have separate partitions. I'd never do the system that puts multiple drives onto one single partition (ie one 600GB partition that merges both drives) because with the way those work if one drive dies you lose EVERYTHING, so I'd need at least two partitions anyway, and I made it four... I don't think I've had a computer with only one HDD partition as my main computer since, like, 1993 or something... whenever it was that we doublespaced our 386. :)

While there is plenty of overlap between drives (they all have installed games and demos on them), I do like to keep all of one thing in one drive -- so the game media folder is on one drive (game screenshots, videos, etc), anime stuff is on another, stuff like normal applications and files and stuff on drive C, the game download stuff folder (demos/patches/etc) on another drive, etc... I don't think I'd want everything on one partition. Too messy with everything all mixed together like that... having several partitions lets you separate it out.