Intel SSD Toolbox 2.0 released.

Apologies in advance for hijacking the thread but i recently purchased the 80g intel ssd, did a bit of homework and some people seem to think that you should install windows on a smaller partition and leave a percentage 10-15% of the drive as unformatted/unallocated disk space in order to maintain the ssd durability.
Wondered what you guys thought of this? I have initially done the above and have an active partition of 64 gb but at £2 per gig i really would like to use all of it....would appreciate your input.....Cheers :)
 
Intel released a presentation on the subject (easily found on their site) but made it clear that reserving unallocated space is appropriate for a high traffic enterprise scenario. For the average home user best go with the extra capacity. One of the Intel engineers also made a post some time ago on the support forums saying as much.
 
I can't get the secure erase feature of the toolbox to work. I'm using my old vista install on a separate HDD with intel toolbox 2.0 the x25-M 80GB has no partitions and is not the os drive. It did used to have win7 installed on it.

Anyone have any ideas on how I can use secure erase? I want this ssd drive to go into my macbook pro now.
 
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