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I did read some on it. Some say it will increase the life 2x to almost 4x if you leave 20GB unpartitioned when you install Windows.
See this thread from 7F:
SSD Dilemma – Worth repartitioning???
But I believe the SSD is already overprovisioned by design as well. my 80GB SSD is actually closer to 90GB, but the extra 10GB is overprovisioning. This is an example, and I've not been able to find any numbers. Also, most of these threads about overprovisioning seem to be from 2009 when there was no trim software, nor wear leveling.
I found this quote on the Intel 510
SourceWith a formatted capacity of 111GB, the 510 has been more over-provisioned than the competing M4. Over-provisioning reserves more of the NAND as a spare area, empty blocks of which are dedicated to be ready for writing, and to replace defective NAND automatically. The typical spare area on a 128GB SSD accounts for roughly 7 per cent of the drive, but the Intel 510 120GB has close to double that, with a spare area of 14 per cent. This is very much an Intel trait, as its X25-M series SSDs were also heavily over-provisioned.
Basically. I'm not going to obsess over benchmarks when the SSD is fast, and I can spare a millisecond here and there while posting in word association, lol. I think the modern SSD's and firmware with Windows 7, are pretty much taking care of themselves. Could you eke out a few more MB's per second? I assume so, but I'd rather smell the roses
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