Is there a reason to keep Windows' primary partition / drive C: small?

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00:00 Question
01:04 Accepted answer (Score 89)
05:52 Answer 2 (Score 24)
06:59 Answer 3 (Score 5)
18:06 Answer 4 (Score 4)
20:54 Thank you

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/1341088/...

Accepted answer links:
[FAT]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Alloc...
[Does NTFS performance degrade significantly in volumes larger than five or six TB?]: https://serverfault.com/questions/222110...
[Will you install software on the same partition as Windows system?]: https://superuser.com/questions/243284/w...

Answer 2 links:
[outermost sectors]: https://superuser.com/questions/643013/a...

Answer 3 links:
[DLL Hell]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_Hell
[shared DLLs]: https://www.reviversoft.com/blog/2011/04.../
[Windows File Protection]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Fi...
[Side-by-side subsystem]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-by-si...
[a separate repository for .NET modules with storage structure that prevents version and vendor conflicts]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Ass...
[long names]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_filen...
[ext4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4
[recent versions of NTFS]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Versi...
[GPT]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Parti...
[4k disks]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_F...
[move ]: https://serverfault.com/questions/8187/w...
[spanned volume]: https://www.minitool.com/lib/spanned-vol...
[Filesystem Hierarchy Standard]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem...

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