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Daytrader · 15 Dec 2020 at 14:42

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

Daytrader · 15 Dec 2020 at 15:03

snips86x said:
No, that's just the MBR drive i believe.

Any SSD would work mate, 2nd hand might be a good option.

Sorry, what is MBR drive, new to this.

Daytrader · 15 Dec 2020 at 15:05

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.

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 · 15 Dec 2020 at 16:17

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.

Daytrader · 19 Dec 2020 at 17:03

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

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.

Daytrader · 19 Dec 2020 at 17:40

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.

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.