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BhargavJ

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I've ordered the MX500 SSD. I've decided not to clone the current OS installation but to instead do a fresh Win10 install.

This is the first time I'm using an SSD. I've read on the net that it is recommended to keep a few GBs unallocated. Do I need to do that, or is just keeping around 20 GBs (out of 500 GBs) free space enough? Actually I've read that around 10% space should be left free, but that comes to 50 GBs, and that's too much.
 
omega44-xt

omega44-xt

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BhargavJ said:
I've ordered the MX500 SSD. I've decided not to clone the current OS installation but to instead do a fresh Win10 install.

This is the first time I'm using an SSD. I've read on the net that it is recommended to keep a few GBs unallocated. Do I need to do that, or is just keeping around 20 GBs (out of 500 GBs) free space enough? Actually I've read that around 10% space should be left free, but that comes to 50 GBs, and that's too much.
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You got it wrong.

Keep some space free instead of filling it up 95% is what would have been recommended. SSD filled to 95%+ will perform worse, that's how it is, more so in the case of QLC drives. So keeping 20-25GB free in a 500GB SSD is decent.
 
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BhargavJ

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invisiblebond said:
Search google "ssd recommended to keep a few GBs unallocated" and come back and tell me what you have read.
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I already did, and found stuff related to wear levelling and over provisioning and TRIM - stuff I didn't understand.


omega44-xt said:
You got it wrong.

Keep some space free instead of filling it up 95% is what would have been recommended. SSD filled to 95%+ will perform worse, that's how it is, more so in the case of QLC drives. So keeping 20-25GB free in a 500GB SSD is decent.
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Thanks. I'll try to keep as much free space as I can.
 
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whitestar_999

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omega44-xt said:
Keep some space free instead of filling it up 95% is what would have been recommended. SSD filled to 95%+ will perform worse, that's how it is, more so in the case of QLC drives. So keeping 20-25GB free in a 500GB SSD is decent.
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MX500 is dram ssd with TLC NAND so even at 95% filled capacity there won't be any noticeable performance drop. This is much more important though for dramless ssd using dynamic SLC cache(aka which varies depending on free space left in ssd) like crucial p2/bx500/crucial p3 etc.
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