Overprovisoning

[Chimp Paradox]

Two 1TB SSD arrived through the post today. Before I format them, whats the deal with over provisioning? What size should I actually format?

Thanks!

 

[Chimp Paradox]

Ah awesome, thanks. I havent used magican yet but all my drives are samsung, so will investigate

 

[Chimp Paradox]

done this today. Very easy. Anyone use RAPID for the OS drive?

 

[Chimp Paradox]

anyone know why overprovising isnt an option for my OS drive?

 

[Chimp Paradox]

still cant do it, though isnt shrinking it like that overprovising anyway?

 

[Chimp Paradox]

Thats what I did, but magican still wont let me set OP even after creating that unallocated space

 

[Chimp Paradox]

Its odd:

http://postimg.org/image/dg9gfknmr/

 

[Chimp Paradox]

the problem is, that OP happened automatically when i shrinked in disk management. And if you look at the number, the OP amount isnt quite what it recommend OP to be, slightly less tan 10 percent.

 

[Chimp Paradox]

I tried that but the option never comes back. When you press clear OP in magician it also gets rid of it in disk management too

 

[Chimp Paradox]

shrinking only allows 9 percent or something i think, in disk management, shown here

http://postimg.org/image/gaty4raor/

 

[Chimp Paradox]

yes. anything under the amount its set at at the moment is ok, so i think its linking back to the max allowed under disk management