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Guys, if i want to use SSD drives as extra internal drives, just for installing games to, do i still have to make a 20% overprovisioning partition on them, like i have done on my OS SSD ? and at moment i use a Samsung 850 EVO for my OS, what SSD's would be good for the extra internal game install drives, thx
 
No, that's just the MBR drive i believe.

Any SSD would work mate, 2nd hand might be a good option.
 
Dont think you need to leave any empty partition since wear leveling happens across the drive on empty cells. Unpartitioned space may come in handy if doing massive burst writes constantly to the drive but that would be for speed purposes.
Iv got multiple ssds and dont make unpartitioned or blank partitions, just use it as a normal drive. Even a bottom tier drives that has like 70tbw limit can do like 40gigs a day writes for 5 years till its at its write limit.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
Dont think you need to leave any empty partition since wear leveling happens across the drive on empty cells. Unpartitioned space may come in handy if doing massive burst writes constantly to the drive but that would be for speed purposes.
Iv got multiple ssds and dont make unpartitioned or blank partitions, just use it as a normal drive. Even a bottom tier drives that has like 70tbw limit can do like 40gigs a day writes for 5 years till its at its write limit.
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Thx, i want ssd drives mainly because my mechanical hard drives make so much noise, also slow for texture streaming some of the newer games, i need fast read access to my games.
 
Daytrader said:
Thx, i want ssd drives mainly because my mechanical hard drives make so much noise, also slow for texture streaming some of the newer games, i need fast read access to my games.
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In that case, if your board supports it, get an NVME, they're super quick in comparison.

Daytrader said:
Sorry, what is MBR drive, new to this.
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It's the master boot record, when you format a new SSD from scratch using the Win install solution, it creates multiple partitions for recovery and system.
Using an SSD as a games drive doesn't require that. Just enable, format and use.
 
Ah ok thx, i did not know MBR was a thing anymore, i thought especially with windows 10 its formatted NTFS now for hard drives, i must be getting confused, i know on windows xp and mechanical drives had MBR, thx for info.
 
This is interesting to me as well, so all my SSDs only used for game libraries can be almost filled to the max without losing performance? If that's the case, I have more space than I thought.
 
Aren't they internally over-provisioned anyhow? Like a 1TB drive actually has 1.2TB specifically for wear levelling and the like. I seem to remember reading that yonks ago. May or may not be true anymore :p
 
FoxEye said:
Aren't they internally over-provisioned anyhow? Like a 1TB drive actually has 1.2TB specifically for wear levelling and the like. I seem to remember reading that yonks ago. May or may not be true anymore :p
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That would be great if true, but the software usually asks you if you want to make a over-provisioned section on your ssd, i know samsung does, if already included, there would be no need to ask or give a option ? would love what you say to be correct thou, maybe someone else can confirm this.
 
I have never heard of overprovisioning an SSD.

Also, OP: Google MBR, GPT, and NTFS. You've picked up some weird stuff somewhere, NTFS has been around a long time.
 
Zefan said:
I have never heard of overprovisioning an SSD.

Also, OP: Google MBR, GPT, and NTFS. You've picked up some weird stuff somewhere, NTFS has been around a long time.
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Cheers, ok will do some googling, ssd software usually has the option thou for overprovisioning, i thought it was a thing to keep them fast, i will google that as well i think.
 
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