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160GB intel SSD G2 partition?

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racerx5410

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As the subject line states. I'm wondering if I should just leave it as one big partition when installing win 7 or if I should split it into 2 partitions.

For the people running this drive, how do you have it setup? Thanks in advance!
 
What do you use the computer for, and do you have any other hard drives in the system?

I left mine as one big partition, primarily because I installed the OS and all of my normal "office" applications on it. I'm still at 114 of 149 GB (formatted) free, but I have at least 4-5 more applications that need to be installed, and I wanted plenty of growing room. In hind sight, an 80GB drive should be plenty, but hey, at least I can use this one in my notebook when I'm ready. 🙂

With that said, I also have two spare hard drives in the computer for storage, media, and games. If I didn't have the spare drives, I would partition the X-25M into something like 60GB for OS + applications, and the rest for games / storage. Really though, if you can afford an SSD, you should be able to afford a secondary drive for storage.
 
besides the SSD, i'm using a 1TB WD caviar black drive for storage....I was thinking maybe 50GB for the OS and the rest for apps I want on the SSD. Sound reasonable?
 
The question is whether to partition at all. Are the assumptions that drove how we do things on mechanical HDs still true? I also have a 160 GB Intel SSD coming I am planning to use in a new build.

Right now I plan to not partition, but I do plan to use a separate folder for all my apps instead of the Program Files folder. I want better organizational control over where the apps are located. Would I be better off partitioning? I don't think so, but I am still a noob in the SSD world, so we'll see.
 
There is no performance benefit from partitioning, only partition if you require paritions and different drive letters.

I have my 160 partitioned 60GB OS/APPs and 90GB Games.
 
Actually, according to Intel, you can extend the endurance of a new drive by choosing a partition value less than the full size of the drive. This apparently can provide up to 3.5X the endurance. The benefit works well by leaving up to 27% of the drive unused. After that, it falls dramatically. If the drive has already been written to, using an application such as HDDERASE is needed to reset it()🙂

http://intelstudios.edgesuite.net/idf/2009/sf/aep/IDF_2009_MEMS003/f.htm
 
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wolfie2u said:
Actually, according to Intel, you can extend the endurance of a new drive by choosing a partition value less than the full size of the drive. This apparently can provide up to 3.5X the endurance. The benefit works well by leaving up to 27% of the drive unused. After that, it falls dramatically. If the drive has already been written to, using an application such as HDDERASE is needed to reset it()🙂

http://intelstudios.edgesuite.net/idf/2009/sf/aep/IDF_2009_MEMS003/f.htm
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Although that's good information to know, I thought they had also stated that a typical PC user would not realistically run into using up the hard drive cycles until it was no longer use-able? Even a person who thrashed their 80GB SSD (Overwrite in and out all day long - server based applications) would have a life span of more than 12 years?

http://communities.intel.com/message/68106

Most of my mechanical drives failed in 6 years after heavy usage. My longest ever mechanical drive was a Maxtor that lasted from 1996 to 2005, and it's last dying year it had bad sectors up the kazoo.
 
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Afaik MLC flash has around 10k write cycles before it wears out.

So if we ignore everything and assume a perfect wear leveling algorithm, we could write 10k * drive size of data to the drive. So even if I get only a third of this amount (no perfect wear leveling, TRIM uses up a lot of cycles,..) I could write around 500TB of data to my 160GB G2 drive.
Only a really rough calculation, but I think at least the order of magnitude should be correct.


Probably 160GB won't be enough to store a film or game on the drive before it fails because of using up all write cycles 😉 I've thrown several perfectly well hard drives away, because they were just way too small to use (why bother with a 120gb drive, if you can get 1tb for 60€?), probably will happen to my SSD as well sometimes..
 
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