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What is the official or tested freespace I need to leave on SSD?
Using 64gb M4 with Win7 with trim enabled.
Using 64gb M4 with Win7 with trim enabled.
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I think it's around 20%.
The more important thing to do is to prevent writes to the thing. There was a whole ritual I went through when I got mine. You can move the swap file off of it or delete it entirely if you have enough memory and you know what you're doing.
I basically have mine setup as a read-only drive.
Why don't you turn off hibernation?now if only there was a way to move hiberfil.sys
As the drive already has a portion hidden from the user for spare area for this purpose, I would not want to sacrifice another 12GB from an already small drive.
Hibernating to an SSD murders it with writes though. Not good for longevity
This. When I first got an SSD I went through the whole ritual of trying to reduce writes, but as far as I can tell, they're not actually being killed by writes. Folks have been trying. Newer SSDs are robust enough that you can just throw your system on there and forget about it.Nope.
I hibernate several times a day. I only have 2TB of writes since April.
Yep.I'm in the 20% crowd since filling up ANY SSD is not the smartest thing to do.
Hibernating to an SSD murders it with writes though. Not good for longevity
... I basically have mine setup as a read-only drive.
Of course you are correct and that's why I started, and stayed, with 20% but like many here just get tired of answering the same question(s) over and over.This has been debunked so many times that it's annoying that it continues to come up. No normal computer users, even power users, are *ever* going to wear out an SSD.
Now, having said that, write amplification is worsened when an SSD has little free space to play with. Anand's articles have explored this in depth. The problem starts to manifest around the 80% mark, will impact performance around 90%, and will typically create problems if you fill the drive (and leave it filled).
Of course you are correct and that's why I started, and stayed, with 20% but like many here just get tired of answering the same question(s) over and over.