840 Pro ssd can't overprovision in magician software

[jarablue]

Do any of you guys here overprovision your ssd? Whenever I try to do it through the magician software it always tells me that it can't because my drive is being used by another process. Which leads me to ask do I need to use the magician software to do this? Can I just use disk management and just shrink my ssd 10%? Or does the magician software only perform it's magic when it does the overprovision?

 

[Dahak]

I have not over provisioned my drive personally. but for it to work it need free, unallocated space first before it will allow you to.

So you will have to shrink the partition first with diskpart or gparted as disk management will only allow you to expand it

once you have free unallocated space then you can use the magician software to use that free unallocated space as the over provisioned area

 

[john3850]

That magician software overprovisioned my 2 830 without any problems.
I believe that the overprovision was a waste of my time do to the fact that drives never get enough writes in a short period of time to slow them down.

 

[jkauff]

I overprovisioned my two 840 Pro discs when I got them, but I have lots of free space so I don't miss the real estate it takes up. I have no idea if overprovisioning makes a difference, but since I didn't need the space I figured why not?

 

[CakeMonster]

It seems that overprovisioning is the new big placebo thing following the no pagefile fetishism.

 

[Zap]

It seems that overprovisioning is the new big placebo thing following the no pagefile fetishism.

LOL @fetishism.

Benchmarks prove that overprovisioning works for keeping write speeds consistent, but really that's only something which may affect those who are always filling up their drive.

I have three SSDs in the system I'm typing this on.
178 GB free of 223 GB (240GB)
155 GB free of 476 GB (512GB)
236 GB free of 238 GB (256GB)

I think I'm good.

 

[Cerb]

If not running FSes with stable TRIM support, I would (FI, ZFS, or NTFS on XP...though I'd avoid XP, generally). Other than that, I'd leave it alone, without some special need, such as performance consistency (though a different drive might be a better option) or surviving heavy random writes (not something you're going to give it, unless you're considering running a high-traffic BT client, or looking at alternatives to your fav vendor's "enterprise" drives).

If added OP will make your SSD's NAND last 50 years instead of 25, at your typical use rate, does it really matter?

It seems that overprovisioning is the new big placebo thing following the no pagefile fetishism.

Except that's not placebo, and 32GB RAM is still cheaper than a high-end CPU.

 

[alkemyst]

install your SSD enjoy. Relax.