SSDs: Do I need to restrict ~15% of space for 'performance'?

Cythx · 27 Apr 2012 at 22:14

Jokester said:
There isn't a hidden 4GB on the M4, the full 64GB is available to the user.

You mean after I install Windows, the drive would show up on My Computer with 'xx GB free of 64.0 GB'?

If so, my final question is:

Can I just cut out 6 GB as a partition when installing Windows and fill up the rest of the 58 GB without worry?

Jokester · 27 Apr 2012 at 22:18

It'll show as xx free of 59.5GB - the difference is as someone I think pointed out earlier that the quoted figures that SSD manufacturers use is 1000bits per Kbit rather than 1024, plus losses to format/file structure and Windows 7 also steals 100MB.

You don't even need to set up a second partition - just create one partition that's 10% or so smaller than the full amount.

Cythx · 27 Apr 2012 at 22:35

Jokester said:
It'll show as xx free of 59.5GB - the difference is as someone I think pointed out earlier that the quoted figures that SSD manufacturers use is 1000bits per Kbit rather than 1024, plus losses to format/file structure and Windows 7 also steals 100MB.

You don't even need to set up a second partition - just create one partition that's 10% or so smaller than the full amount.

Okay. So say I create a partition that is 54 GB (10% smaller) for my C drive, do I need to worry about using all that remaining data, as I've already allowed for 6 GB 'free space'?

Just want to know this so I can have peace of mind and not have to check on files accumulating and taking up almost all the drive. In my current PC, Kaspersky has gone nuts sometimes and creates huge report files which have reduced me to 1 GB left. I'm wondering, if I use a partition that is 10% smaller, will I need to worry about things like that?

Thanks for helping

Jokester · 27 Apr 2012 at 22:40

I don't know if 10% is the correct value, or even if it makes a difference - but yeah, whatever the windows partition tool reports when you create the partition, take the x% off of that.

Cythx · 27 Apr 2012 at 22:42

Jokester said:
I don't know if 10% is the correct value, or even if it makes a difference - but yeah, whatever the windows partition tool reports when you create the partition, take the x% off of that.

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Thanks

Can anyone confirm that in doing this I will be fine to fill up the remaining 54 GB without worrying about performance degradation?