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how much free space am I supposed to leave on SSD?

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groberts101 said:
In the end.. the one's who don't typically task the SSD that hard(gamers/surfers).. are the one's who say to fill it up.

All the others heavier users/multitaskers who have ever experienced that extra .03 latency increase along with reduced bandwidth performance(especially the small randoms) associated with an overly full/dirty SSD.. surely know the real truth. 🙂
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Perfect. :thumbsup:
 
I find it disappointing that such expensive tech like ssds require this much maintenance and care, SSDs are already suffering from low capacity compared to HD now you must avoid using all of what little you have? And if you use a SSD for caching aren't you filling it all up with data for the HD what about those SSDs?
 
SuPrEIVIE said:
I find it disappointing that such expensive tech like ssds require this much maintenance and care, SSDs are already suffering from low capacity compared to HD now you must avoid using all of what little you have? And if you use a SSD for caching aren't you filling it all up with data for the HD what about those SSDs?
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SSDs don't require any maintenance and care above and beyond what you would do for any hard drive (it's actually less). Anybody who filled up their hard drive with any version of Windows found out pretty quickly that was a dumb thing to do. Fill up your SSD, and watch what happens. If it works for you, fine.

I've been using computers for a lot of years, and it's just second nature to not completely fill up any hard drive, SSD or not.

Everything else you read about special stuff you're supposed to do for an SSD is bollocks.
 
Yeah i figured alot of talk of SSD and what you should do is exaggerated, but it is understandable considering the investment on them. I have filled up harddrives many times and never experience slow downs at least during real life use however there is always talk of concern about this doing this, but fortunately I do not see any negative consequences so hopefully i will see the same for SSD as I will use every 1+$GB i paid for.
 
LOL.. it's pretty safe to say that if you've never perceived the slowdowns associated with filling an HDD?.. then it's almost a certainty that you will not care about the tiny hangs and often major speed losses that ocurr from read/write/modify scenarios with an SSD.

Don't know how you wouldn't see an HDD slowdown as any system I've ever had and worked on always turned into a monster mess when overfilled. Some even almost unusable.. but to each his own, I guess.

Just be aware that there are built in algorithms to help SSD's better maintain themselves for optimum lifespan and performance(such as garbage collection, wear leveling, and data rotation) which will have a pretty tough time when the drive is only running with the factory OP allowance of free space to work their magic.

Some might be willing to sacrifice that for the extra 10-15 gigs of free space that should be left alone for those previously mantioned reasons.. but most will just make due with less usable space to maximize their investment until they can better afford to get a larger drive that may be more appropriately fits their space requirement.

I myself will easily trade massive free space(I have 280 gigs available but only stripe 80 gigs for my OS volume) for the increased consistency that comes with it. Storage is for HDD these days and that's what the tech savvy guys are doing. SSD for OS/apps/games.. HDD for everything else. They're also usually the ones with the fewest complaints with SSD usage as well with the ones overusing the available capacity having the most issues.
 
ElFenix said:
now if only there was a way to move hiberfil.sys
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I disabled it on my rig as it isn't needed for me at least. It was a waste of space! My rig will power down completely as in shut off. Wiggle mouse and 1-2 seconds later l'm good to go. Think it was taking a 6gb plus chunk of my SSD.
 
You always want to have minimum 5GB always free on your hard drive or SSD.

20 percent ? nah I dont think so. A hard drive doesnt slow down no matter how much you fill it up,, SSD has to be the same way. its just flash memory. I think you can fill up SSD , just leave 5GB always free. Also dont use a page file you dont need it if you have 8GB ram or more. gl
 
tweakboy said:
You always want to have minimum 5GB always free on your hard drive or SSD.

20 percent ? nah I dont think so. A hard drive doesnt slow down no matter how much you fill it up,, SSD has to be the same way. its just flash memory. I think you can fill up SSD , just leave 5GB always free. Also dont use a page file you dont need it if you have 8GB ram or more. gl
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😱 I like your style...
 
HDD doesn't slow down when full? Try running defrag on a drive with no free space, let us know how long it takes , if it even works :awe:
 
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Kenmitch said:
I disabled it on my rig as it isn't needed for me at least. It was a waste of space! My rig will power down completely as in shut off. Wiggle mouse and 1-2 seconds later l'm good to go. Think it was taking a 6gb plus chunk of my SSD.
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This. No need for hibernate when you can cold boot in less than 10 seconds.
 
MustangSVT said:
Yes, I've already disabled swap file. ALthough its not recommanded, nothing uses more than 6gb with what I use. (no illustrator these days).

you say 20%, but what is that based on? trying to get some "tested" figures.
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huh? i thought having an SSD does wonders for the swap file?? it'd be read much faster. Also, doesnt Win7 (especially with SP1) already do an awesome job setting up SSDs?

what's all this talk about longevity? as in it'll "only" last you 5 years as opposed to 6 years?

alot of the info people are posting on here seems really outdated from back to the when the first SSDs were released. The newer ones don't require any of this 20% freespace/no swap file/dance ritual before using.
 
FWIW, i've had my Kingston 64gb SSD (425 series) for about 18 months now, no swap but other than being an OS/program drive it's also a cache and thumbnail drive for my Adobe apps. Majority of that time it's been running with less than 6gb remaining. As far as CDM is concerned it's still at 100% health.
 
SSD prices are coming down. In a year or so they will be less than $1 per GB. When that happens, are we really going to care about this sort of issue?
 
Im with the hammer the hell out of camp, load it with all the caching you can, its what its there for, leave no space, its got some anyway

PC stays on for 2-4 days a time between reboots, all my caches and pagefile are ON the drive, its used every day and sometimes caches run through several gb per day in one app alone, other days just normal pagefile browser use, webcaching an app.

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readymix said:
samsung's ssd utility suggests 23.8 GB over-provisioning on a 256 GB drive, officially.
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When I read the Samsung SSD 830 user manual it said drives perform best when 7-10% is allowed for over-provisioning. But don't the drives come with that as spare area already? Are they asking us to OP an additional 7-10%?
 
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